so who's to blame patients doctors manufacturers all the governments. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. in today's headline the u.k. is opposition labor party is pushing for broadcast license to be revoked and a letter to britain's supposedly independent t.v. regulator here's how an. act into the regulation. the woods. would you kill to lead your unschooled secretary in a private letter sent to this independent regulator saying. telling the urgently i need to see that to do would be too politically interfering with an

independent regulator devastated. also this hour striking back in china orders the us to shut its consulate in the city of chengdu in the television over the closure of its own consulate in houston as the u.s. secretary of state accuses beijing of trying to establish a new tyranny. and several people aboard an iranian passenger plane are injured after the pilot is forced to make a dangerous maneuver we're going to encounter with a u.s. fighter jet. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teacher in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. the u.k.'s opposition labor party is pushing for

broadcast license to be revoked and a letter to the country's t.v. regulator off calm watch dog is supposed to be independent and you know from political pressure. takes us through the development. these must be some sort of record in order vanity's history it has done less harm if any both immediate and long term to great britain to the british people and britain's future than one woman did in the space of a single letter and this woman she isn't a russian agent she isn't a foreign spy or bent on britain's destruction no she is a member of the british parliament i am writing to request it off come 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 just to bring everyone up to speed off calm is an independent media regulator in

the u.k. it has rules according to which every broadcaster in the u.k. must be objective fair and to preclude any government interference or outside pressure of course is completely independent it must be that's the entire point the system has worked for so many decades of calm hasn't strayed it is mercilessly neutral objective but out of the blue come out multiple officials and they do something terrible they try to destroy what off call me ease distortions in the coverage provided by russian state and international broadcasters such as russia today the high court has ruled that russia today broadcasts actually potential harm what these officials just d.d.e. is set a precedent it's it's the worst sort of precedent one could set and attempt to

pressure of course a politically motivated attempt to pressure or even dependent body to shut up someone they don't like using cherry picked arguments which couldn't stand up to so much as a gentle breeze. yes they argue that artie has violated all of court rules been fined by off com which is true what these opposition members do mention is that other broadcasters like i don't know the b.b.c. have 3 times as many violations b.b.c. 41 violations in 10 years i.t.v. food sky news 40 c. 14 and that he hasn't had a single violation in 2 years separately you can sort of understand the allegedly on rebel members of parliament with a prime minister like boris johnson setting that example there isn't much to aspire to the prime minister agree with me that it's time to look at but the licensing for

russia today operates in the u.k. . it's because this is because we got in this would come more credibly from the leader of the opposition had equally got these former the former leader of the opposition when he took money hearing in russia today i mean this is peter to this is pretty protested neither against the leaders of the form of your position stance nor against his willingness to take money from russia today flip flops from day to day mr speaker this is what i mean the prime minister stands there making things up the never paid journey corbyn a penny to appear chattel never not a penny yet barsh johnson he stands there lying and everyone laps it up just hammer a few more nails into this this coffin of nonsense and i am big on hammering those nails in never found misinformation disinformation or untruths in

any of our coverage of the soulsby incident to the brakes at referendum an analysis of off calm violations pay and there are different picture to the rule playing fantasy being. played out in the british parliament he has a comparable a better broadcasting standards record than he k.p. is it was reported in october 2017 that the b.b.c. is inundated with 1000 complaints a day 17 times as many objections as rival broadcasters combine obviously of com has dealt with busybodies before and i don't doubt they have their own views on an outsider telling them how to do their jobs but it is worry this hysteria that everything russian is becoming a medical and mental health concern an attempt by an endless stream of politicians to to pin everything that's gone wrong everything they did wrong on russia and standing here on the sidelines you can only shake your head as you watch these

suspects tickle unfold what is own worst example you can do of the russian interference well that's the question which we want to have answered. r.t. has asked afghan for comment no reply yet but here's more reaction from r.t. u.k. host afshin rattansi and from our guests. we now have the words of cicadas damas shadow department of culture media and sport secretary in a private letter sent to this independent regulator saying almost telling the urgently i need to see you to see her to do what to politically interfere with an independent regulator devastating the fact that sic e s dhamma 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 yes dahmer 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. an engineer 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're going to become patriots and defending

the values of britain at home and abroad of commons independent and can take its own decisions and you can feel pressure by either the labor party or the conservative party. here's my problem with all of this we're seen propagandists 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 and stands 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 u.s. 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 shut its consulate in the city

of chengdu as a tit for tat measure as earlier washington ordered beijing to shut up shop in houston china says it's not looking for a fight though. the current situation in bilateral relations which the u.s. is entirely to blame for is not what china desires to see once again we urge the u.s. immediately to retract its wrong decision and create the necessary conditions for bringing relations between the 2 countries back on track some of the personnel in the u.s. consulate in chengdu engaged in activities inconsistent with their capacities and interfered in china's internal affairs they homed china's national security interests china has repeatedly made representations to the former consulates and america is aware of this. the trump administration ordered china to shut its houston consulate on tuesday microamp aoe defended the move claiming that beijing

was stealing intellectual property china called the abrupt closure of its consulate a political provocation while its foreign ministry said the country's embassy in the u.s. received death threats because of anti china sentiment whipped up by double trouble as 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. but we have to admit a hard truth we just about are 2 of the should guide us in the years and decades to come we want to have a free 21st century and not the chinese century of dreams the old paradigm of blinding gauge with china simply won't get it done the united nations nato. and she 7 countries the g. 20 are combined economic diplomatic and military power is surely enough to meet this challenge if we directed clearly and with great courage to free world must triumph over this new tyranny we heard from china expert who says the u.s.

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 to basically accused china of not following the norms and by a leading human rights a lot of people would probably cry foul and say oh you sound like you're being a hypocrite here us for policy folks basically are worried that china would include the us economically and therefore politically and militarily over time and that's their biggest fear i don't think it's as if he into human rights. the u.s. military insists it kept a safe distance while conducting a visual inspection of an iranian aircraft on thursday after several people on board a iranian passenger plane were injured during an encounter with a u.s.

fighter jet. i was. down on them on when we were over syria a fighter jet suddenly approached our plane and the pilot reduced the altitude to prevent a collision this led to some passengers getting injured. a black a airplane approached our plane and caused the airplane to lose its balance and my head to the ceiling. that incident happened when the plane was on the way from tehran to beirut was captured on video and published by iranian state media it's alleged that the jet made a dangerous maneuver forcing the pilot to rapidly drop altitude to avoid a collision they ring in foreign ministry says an investigation is ongoing we discussed the situation up with a professor of political communication at the university of tehran. obviously the

policy of maximum pressure campaign on your own is not working and resorting to this type of tactics terrorizing woman and children on a civilian airline they're. not supposed to be in this corridor air corridor so that it's illegal they should not be approaching a civilian airliner that they should not be in syria that the syrian government has asked the united states to leave it to syria as an independent country so by engaging in these type of activities they have violated the chicago convention they have syria's solvency. they did not do this before and this is. their line that has been going to lebanon for many many years this is the 1st time they have done that so this may be a policy decision to escalate these type of pressures against iran given the fact that the time for administration may be out of office in january. still the commie

former istanbul museum hire sophia has held its 1st muslim prayers since becoming a mosque again. after this.

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 sure i'll see you then. this is r t international welcome back tensions remain high and the u.s. city of portland over the deployment of armed federal troops there it's pretty forces were seen firing tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters.

they were sent in earlier this week by president donald trump to quell anti-racism protests our house claims the mayor of portland has lost control of the city over more than a dozen u.s. mayors most of them have voiced alarm over the federal crackdown meanwhile the ongoing protests have affected portland's shop owners with stores in the area vandalized and looted one of the targets was a jewelry store that's been operating in the area for over 30 years and made looters broke into the premises and stole numerous items the owner and office says clients are afraid to go downtown because of the protests she spoke to r.t. about the situation. 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 is just boarded up streets. you know a lot of graffiti just destruction everywhere and we're very disappointed with the

studio fish kills i don't consider what they're doing is cute to ship when you feel businesses like that when your city looks like a war zone 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 and you allow lawlessness when you allow looting and we don't hold people accountable this stuff is going to continue and if their leadership failed the businesses the residents of downtown portland big time and us why this is happening there is no accountability being held right now against looters. the iconic highest ophelia in istanbul has reopened for muslim prayers with its 1st friday worship at the very top turkish court revoked its status as a museum earlier highest sophia held its 1st muslim prayers and almost 90 years crowds of worshippers gathered in the nearby square for the inauguration and the turkish president was also in attendance here's

a quick look at the history of the unicycle world heritage site. from now on during prayers the christian frescoes and i cons of the former cathedral will be hidden behind curtains and other times though the artworks will be kept uncovered at the holy site open to tourists. some world leaders have criticized turning the site into a mosque again inside turkey the decision met with a mixed reaction one turkish poster found that almost 50 percent of respondents saw it as an attempt to shift focus away from the country's economic woes there's

a people in istanbul had to say. a few years a fundamental right of muslims has been converted into a mosque as a result of this victory no muslims can pray freely when highest feel as a museum there was a restriction that prevented worship. it's totally the wrong decision even if it's not an insult it can offend people after all the founder of our country defeated 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 care there aren't supposed to be any into things conflicts it is important that the eye is severe remains a museum and it is important that it becomes a mosque but it doesn't matter to me. this is the decision by mr don't know when to use. the rape you are going to give all i'm stupid as far as the sense of who

mostly i'm sure in the knowledge that the right to arrange the moron go off which is some quarters of a q.b. biography and then perhaps exchange but of grabbing the elections instead of you so this if they key is a domestic for you because that i've been i've been in the seizure of. is the reality and not of france or of decrease the us and the same time of france or the civilized nations in the fickle nuclear war that is against this decision it carl says it in lay shoes between the recent and the relations between the turkey and the european union and the other christiane gone through some 30. 2 bit dating needs as as the. museum. in germany

a us court in hamburg has handed a sentence to a 93 year old man aged 17 he was an s.s. concentration camp guard he's been convicted of over 5000 counts of excess right to murder our europe correspondent peter oliver has the details. 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. guard 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 i understand how they reached the 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 de 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 are 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. french charities are raising the alarm over a surge and people needing to use food banks the spike has been aggravated by the corona virus pandemic of course our day charlotte devinsky explains. a hive of

activity food being sauteed apostles' of being attacked all as the queues are waiting for through date. many of those now using food banks like this one doing so with the ferry 1st time and it's the life like the gesture to mention i am in a precarious situation and coded 9000 has me things tough there is a moment when there was nothing else to do but come here with their restaurants duke or i wouldn't be able to survive i had a normal life food an apartment and when i lost everything it was very difficult to ask for help but i had no choice so here i am is turning c'est city because i need to come here because i am alone with my children and i need help the center was closed at one point and we had difficulties because of that but now they are open so things are better known you would have to start with we didn't go out because we didn't know if rest of the crew were working but when we knew they were

we came we respected all the safety measures press still stick or a charity providing the hostels to those in need says he's been feeding between 20 and 30 percent people since march at this food distribution center it's been even higher usually the senator said that people leave. the state. and if you say 50 percent or get the force that some of them lost their job when instances implement you know that you have. your. people tend to do that job we expect that the situation with the last 234 years this is not just an issue in france across europe food banks have been overwhelmed the european food banks spend a ration of feed but says that more than 90 percent. distribution centers have seen

an increase in demand for emergency treatment the picture has been particularly bad in western europe it says the demand up in some countries by 50 percent this is according to the but an unprecedented situation we feel ashamed to ask for help but i think degrade vision of living conditions and happen to anybody this social crisis is not comparable to the 2008 social crisis that followed the financial crash is a mish more profound and deep. crisis that will last full measure longer the world program for. that number will. require a. warning food security we create 550 percent worldwide. to now food banks are said to be coping with the enormous strain that

they are under but government officials are already concerned about a 2nd wave of covert 19 which could mean that by the end of this year in france alone around 8000000 people may be left in need of food aid that compile with higher rates of unemployment could be an explosive me this jollity even ski party paris. that's a roundup of the day's top headlines for now and that's all for me as well today but we're not you know neal will be here with a live news update at the top of the hour as always thanks for tuning in. the book. the sudden false and illegal takeover of a government by

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