to prescription opioids invaded america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she did go after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer so who's to blame patients doctors manufacturers all the governments of. u.k.'s opposition labor party is reportedly pushing for all teams to be revoked in a leaf letter to britain supposedly independent t.v. regulator is now one of ati case to see the revelation. of the woods secure stallman's shadow people with the culture between sport secretary in a private letter sent to this independent regulator saying. telling the urgently i need to see you to see that you want to politically interfere with an

independent regulator devastated. striking back china or the us to close its consulate general in the city of chengdu in retaliation over the closure of its own consulate houston as the u.s. secretary of state ratchets up the pressure on the world to gang up on quote this new terror and. also more protests in the u.s. city of portland the president on trump sent in troops to stamp out nearly 2 months of anti-racism protests local business on a told us she just wants the rest to be a. new field businesses like when your city looks like a war zone failed leadership and we're very disappointed very angry. that the city of hamburg a 2 year suspended prison sentences given to a former concentration camp godhood what's believed to be possibly the last trial of the nazi era was criminal.

good morning welcome you watching on t.v. . a little later suggests the u.k.'s opposition labor party is pushing for auntie's broadcast license to be revoked despite of call the independent regulator in britain supposedly being immune from political pressure. hawkins discussed the development leaked and i will say unverified laughter has come to light allegedly from stevens who is the shadow cultural secretary so high up in the labor party now that it was a party sent to off calm which is of course the independent u.k. media regulator which essentially just follows all news outlets and makes sure that every single term that impartiality is our power now in that left joe stevens requests that artie's right to broadcast in the u.k.

be reconsidered. i'm writing to you in the light of the troubling revelations in the russia report about the role of aarti inspired nique in spreading kremlin back to information in i am writing to request it off calm urgently refuse artie's license in light of this report in to request a meeting with you as soon as possible to discuss my concerns about the broadcaster was all he responded while this has not been verified of course undoubtedly for the child the main concern is the side to that a politician is actively interfering in the business of an independent organization that should be immune to such pressure it is wholly inappropriate for the leader of the labor party to make such request of the government and indeed ministers like jay stevens to directly place political pressure on of comb it isn't for the government to interfere in the role of an independent regulator nor is it

appropriate for the labor party to seek to play on to pressure on an independent regulator we are concerned about the politicians not about of calm and of course this is not just about all we need to look at the wider picture here what else will suddenly be deemed worthy of being shot down and it is incredibly of course worrying that politics and independent media bodies are being dangerously in time no altie was in the earlier this week in the house of commons as well was that yes i mean unfortunately it's beginning to look a bit like policy from the labor party on wednesday we saw that maybe a need to us a kissed on the face off with the prime minister boris johnson and really that he echoed this letter he kind of requested ati's license to potentially be revoked and he said that with jeremy quote been gone he's now at the helm the labor party's to to towards has changed on their own to be giving interviews so that's a look at that exchange between those 2 distortions in the coverage provided by russian state international cost as such as russia today. the high court has ruled

that russia today broadcasts actually potential harm just the prime minister agree with me that it's time to look at good but the licensing for russia today operates in the u.k. . it's a very good this is because i think this would come more credibly from the leader of the opposition. are these the former leader of the opposition when he took money here in russia today i mean this is the protection this is the protested neither against the leaders of the form of your vision stands nor against his willingness to take money from russia today he flip flops from day to day that has become the trigger if you like for the debate in parliament for this letter if you like was the long awaited russian report just sort of boy what exactly was published while the so-called russian report had been in the works for 18 months there was so much hype around it people thought that after all of this time that would be some sort of bombshell revelation but it really failed to deliver in that regard

a bit like the middle report if you will came to the sensational conclusion that it was quote the new normal and that the kremlin was moscow minding key decisions from bracks it to the scottish referendum to the general election and $29000.00 but it gave up so we need no evidence to substantiate those claims it was a highly redacted document and that was a piece action that was said to contain crucial information that proved russia had been meddling in britain's democratic processes now that section was missing it wasn't included so really the whole report was a lot of unsubstantiated allegations that left people with a lot more questions than answers and this latest development with the latter will undoubtedly in its own right raise a number of concerns not just of course about the future of the freedom of press the need k. but far more crucially about undue influence. lottie has asked off come to comment

on the story we've received no reply as of yet has more reaction from our staff she returned say and several guests. we now have the words of cicadas dharmas shadow department of culture media and sport secretary in a private letter sent to this independent regulator saying almost telling her urgently i need to see you to see her to do what to politically interfere with an independent regulator devastating the fact that sic here starmer seems obsessed by wanting to destroy a free press in britain puts the british labor party in in the spotlight because that would have implications for a free press in this country for article 19 of the united nations charter human rights charter it would have implications for the human rights act and presumably just as when he was banned for a defend media freedom summit here he would get help from amnesty international

index on censorship obviously because starmer has crossed a line here he is attempting perhaps to interfere with an independent. independent media regulator politically. this is a really a move by the labor party was. engineered by secures nama they decided to be more people who want to this is a very significant letter from the labor party view that they've declared that they're now on the russian side and they are going to become patriots and defending the values of britain at home and abroad of carmen's independent and can take its own decisions and shouldn't be pressured by either very deliberate. or the conservative blogger. here's my problem with all of this we're seen propagandist

information from multiple media outlets and r.t. it's not like there's been any hidden hidden meaning behind what that is that letter is stance for russia today and so there's no there's no kind of cold virt ideology which is not what we've seen for example from the chinese and from others which the us is obviously going after so what my question is is how dumb do politicians think the average public is how done do these politicians think people are that we cannot choose where we get our news from that we cannot choose where we get our information from. china has ordered the us to close its consulate in the city of chengdu it's a tit for tat measure or washington or the beijing to close up shop in houston tensions escalate between the 2 geo political foes the u.s. secretary of state has called on other nations to form an alliance against china

present trump. has made very clear we need a strategy to protect the american economy and indeed our a way of life through free world must try to over this new tyranny we can't face this challenge alone the united nations nato. the 7 countries the g. 20 our combined economic diplomatic and military power is surely enough to meet this challenge if we directed clearly and with great courage to the free world doesn't change doesn't change governments china will surely change. the trump of ministration or the china to close this houston consulate on tuesday defended that move claiming beijing was stealing intellectual property beijing called the closure of its consulate a political provocation of its foreign ministry said the country's embassy in america received death threats because of anti china sentiment they say was whipped up by donald trump earlier the u.s.

president blamed china for the coronavirus pandemic revoked hong kong special economic status and sanctioned chinese businesses and officials we heard from china expert and lee who says that america is acting out of fear. many people in the united states are extremely upset with the very authoritarian way that the trumpet ministration is dealing with the protesters and basically accused china. not following the norms and by leading human rights a lot of people would probably cry foul and say oh you sound like you're being a hypocrite hear us or call us the folks basically are worried that china would eclipse the us economically and therefore politically and militarily over time and that's their biggest fear i don't think it's as a human rights. tensions remain high in the us city of

portland over the deployment of federal forces and i was sent in earlier this week by part of the trying to quell racism protests in one town thank the mayor of portland has lost control of the city of the more than a dozen u.s. mez most of them democrats a voice concern over the federal crime but it's not the person on the balance we call a bitch with. a protester beaten with a metal pole tear gas and rubber bullets shot into a crowd after nearly 2 months of mostly peaceful protests tensions have reached new heights up for president donald trump's administration ordered federal police on the streets of port its largest city just a few days ago in spirit ted wheeler was not speared by the u.s. government forces weaver was tear gassed by the agents as he stood near a fence guarding a federal courthouse. jeered at times by protesters the mayor showed solidarity with the crowd shouting black lives matter. which

opposed the deployment of federal agents of his city from the start and the state has how does barack let me be very clear with oregonians when i spoke with the director of the department of homeland. curating last week i told him to go home and to take his federal troops with him. this is a democracy not a dictatorship however critics say the portland mirror is to blame for local police using tear gas and other methods to disperse crowds prior to the arrival of the ferd's some local business leaders also believe the mirror should have brought the night we protest under control weeks ago. in the meantime the ongoing protests term for affected portland shop owners with stores in the area vandalized looted one of the targets was a jewelry store that's been operating in the area for 30 years and made protesters broke into the premises and stole new missile items the store. says that clients are afraid to go downtown because of the ongoing protests she spoke to r.t.

about the situation important. and not only ones many businesses in downtown portland are hurt it's not the portland we know it's not the city that we've been doing business in for over 30 years it's just boarded up streets. you know a lot of graffiti just destruction everywhere and we're very disappointed with the studio officials i don't consider what they're doing it's tutorship when you feel businesses like that when your city looks like a war zone out said failed leadership and we're very disappointed we're very angry and at this time we just don't know what the future of downtown portland will look like when you allow lawlessness when you allow looting and when you don't hold people accountable this stuff is going to continue and if their leadership failed the business is the residents of downtown portland big time and just why this is happening there is no accountability being held right now against looters. next

time without international still to come a 2 year suspended prison sentence is given to a former concentration count guard has been found guilty of accessory to mass murder story and plenty more after this break.

we go to work. straight home. now to germany where a youth court in hamburg has handed a sentence to a 93 year old man age 17 he was an s.s. concentration count god he's been convicted of more than 5000 counts of accessory

to murder your correspondent peta all of it has a story. this 2 year suspended sentence that was handed down to 93 year old bruno d. could well be the last verdict handed down to a perpetrator of crimes a cheering the holocaust he was found guilty of being an accessory to 5232 counts of murder while he was an s.s. guards the tough concentration camp. due to his age 93 years old as i said it was always unlikely that

a judge was going to hand down a custodial sentence the 2 year suspended sentence though was greeted with mixed opinion by those representing the victims and i understand how they reached a suspended verdict but i can't accept this it's all because they suspended sentence for a mass murder even when the defendant was a teenager juvenile is basically sending the wrong signal says they're also verdigris balance this verdict is also a signal to foreign countries really that these crimes will be punished haven't 70 to 75 years after a mass murder a judge on my a good bring said that bruno de viewed himself as just a mob server in the killings that were going on and she also contradicted claims made by the defense team the 93 year old would have tried to escape from the camp himself if an opportunity had arisen the judge said he knew what was going on there and how people were being killed earlier this week we heard from bruno di himself

who said how he felt about the actions that took place all those years ago i would like to apologize to those who went through this hell of madness and their relatives something like this can never be repeated. there are other investigations into the crimes of the holocaust ongoing but due to the well the amount of years that have elapsed since the crimes were committed and the age of those who were accused of perpetrating those crimes as well as the age of those who survived it seems that this trial may be the last one in the german court that will be seen through to completion. the iconic higher saffir in istanbul has reopened for muslim prayers with its 1st friday worship that's after a top turkish courted revoked its status as a museum its last muslim prayer occurred almost 90 years ago because president brigitte tiber droughns already paid a visit to make sure that everything is ready he does from

a number of countries have been invited to the reopening of the mosque here's a quick look back at the history of the in escrow world heritage site. during prayers the christian frescoes and icons of the former cathedral will be covered with curtains at other times though the artworks will be kept and covered with the holy site open to tourists. inside turkey the decisions are met with a mixed reaction on turkish pollster found that almost 50 percent of respondents saw it as an attempt to shift focus away from the country's economic woes is what people in istanbul had to say. hyas a few years

a fundamental right of muslims it's been converted into a mosque as a result of this victory no muslims can pray freely when highest feel was a museum there was a restriction that prevented worship but it's totally the wrong decision even if it's not an insult it can offend people after all the founder of our country gifted highest fear to humanity as a museum and i think it would be better if it retained the status of historical artifact. we need to respect every religion in fact mohamed had always advised peace saying a christian neighbor is in my camp there aren't supposed to be any into theat conflicts this is important but that i assume remains a museum and it is important that it becomes a mosque but it doesn't matter to me this is. mr. morton. because you know i'm still plans for better as the center of the mostly

sunni we're now at the right range the more. you supporters of. perhaps preparing elections are in therapy so this is is a domestic for you because i've been in the seizure of mr erdogan is the reality. of france or greece the us in the same time of france or. civilization there are the world is against this decision it harms relations between greece and and the relations between europe and the european union and the other. countries turkey. they need to. hear. the coronavirus pandemic is having a. devastating impact on care for elderly people in victoria australia

a key problem is the sort of shortage of medical workers in that sector and the situation's about to be made worse by a major round of furrows affecting casual and part time staff this is intended to help stop the spread of the virus recently victoria recorded a spike in new cases. i'm joined on the by dr norman swan he's a medical correspondent for the australian broadcasting corporation and also the host of a.b.c.'s corona cast pod cast welcome norman has in your opinion the government offered enough funding financial assistance to these workers especially those about to be furloughed during this pandemic. well if you're here is quite interesting is that as the private sector. in melbourne is reduced suffering the public sector to some quite good medical cover and well trained nurses was the private sector was into the script on that and not invested properly in infection

control. almost casual ice for not properly treated people heal sore and yes there could be a real problem would be moving around workers between each year centers and it's a real issue as it has been around the world but it's happening here. i mean obviously she's concerned here is to stop the spread of the virus but at the same time how much of an impact is sending workers home and presumably they're not going to get paid how much of an impact is going to have on them because many of these part time workers say that like hand to mouth struggling just survive. well is a problem with casual workers but the issue there are provisions for them to be paid the commonwealth government so it's complicated instead you have state and federal governments and aged care is covered by the commonwealth and the victorian government in this case and so they are sending surge workers into the aged care they say and there are jobs subsidies for care workers are set aside but it

is a problem they're almost the most poorly paid workers in australia as they are around the world now as i understand the victoria authorities announced a more restrictive stage for lockdown in essence what will that mean. well they're not there quite yet. so the numbers have been growing cumulatively it's a really it's an industry a really interesting lesson to the world what's happened in victoria is that they'd almost eliminated spread of the virus in victoria the way they have in most was julian states but what was happening was a street is returning to a strip from overseas were being quarantined in hotels and the quarantine was not well managed by private security firms and the virus leapt from those hotels into the northwest suburbs of melbourne and has taken off and is almost a single source that's now cumulatively over 4000 cases with many deaths and

a lot of people in hospital and it is a really troubling situation which they're struggling to get under control if we look at the economic situation in australia nationally what's the impact like that going forward financially for the country. well interesting history is a bit like more follows the pattern of the 1918 pandemic internationally is that countries and cities that locked down airily did better economically so whilst it's not good to ask we are in a recession whilst there is the significant economic retract contraction and maybe a little percent of people unemployed we are sure it's not been as bad as well as predicted so as planned but not as bad as predicted and there are signs of pointing back that's why the victorian outbreak is so serious because it's more than a 3rd of the population of australia and it's a real sense back to what look like modesty cannot recovery and australia is one of those countries that in this race to try and develop

a vaccine i believe clinical trials but again in july how's the situation looking is it likely australia will have its own vaccine anytime in the foreseeable future there's what there is is just like anywhere else you haven't got a clue basically duce despite the headlines i'm sure you're right because the headlines about vaccines every day is far too early to say we've got one promising vaccine another couple in development and we will wait to see it's going to be a long time before we really know because what you're hearing now are safety trials which show that the vaccine itself is safe but it doesn't tell you whether or not was going to be serious side effects when it's used in reality and whether indeed they work so we're up we're going to a long way to go internationally for any vaccine to prove as we're funny just to bring it bring it back to the elderly people in care homes from what we've seen around the world it feels like in some countries the elderly were kind of abandoned when this 1st 1st brother was in a lot of people for the people who wait taking care of them it's spread rapidly and

i remember reading that in victoria the vast majority 'd of people who died from the virus were aged over 80 years of age do you think they thought that they were treated poorly in australia at the beginning. one expert who is serious that if this was a school boarding this is a book boarding school new school kids affected you see a very different response the boarding schools would be shut down people kids would be transferred to other places until they were cleaned and safe that's not happening with aged care homes hasn't happened in the united states and that hasn't happened so it is the classic example where they lead providers really and they really devastated aged care homes around the world we do not respect our elderly particularly our frail elderly and australia is no exception but it's one thanks so much for that i appreciate you coming on r.t. dr norman swan my guest medical correspondent at the australian broadcasting corporation and the host of a.b.c.'s corona cap's podcast thanks again.

and as always thanks so much for chaining into our to say i'll be back with that in half assed time to say that. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see of that. problem drugs has come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we seem very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids and invented america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she just goes after dose after dose after dose and really became his

drug dealer so who's to blame patients don't do those manufacturers all the governments are. always the issue of trying to playing out in the american election cycle will trump and biden betray themselves as being tough on beijing maybe they are at least rhetorically but reality shows a very different story and it's bipartisan the committee creates an industry and financed one for to china for a day and have their visions show is this china's. all . deserted city street or the wall may already be

a thing of the past.