me every. time i'm sure i'll be speaking to the world of politics. i'm sure. i'll see you. headline stories the u.k.'s opposition labor party is pushing for our t.v. broadcast license to be. britain's independent t.v. regulator also ahead. several people on board on their reunion passenger plane are injured after the pilot is forced to make a dangerous maneuver during her with a u.s. fighter jet. china orders the u.s.

to shut its consulate in the city of chengdu in response to the closure of its own consulate in houston as the u.s. secretary of state accuses beijing of trying to establish quote. one minute past 6 pm here in the russian capital welcome to r.t. international revery are catching us from. the u.k. opposition labor party is pushing for artie's broadcast license to be revoked. in a letter to the country's t.v. regulator ofcom the watchdog is supposed to be independent from political pressure . because the it takes us through developments. these must be some sort of

record in all of our t.'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 calm urgently refuse artie's license in light of this report into request a meeting with you as soon as possible to discuss my concerns about the broadcaster just to bring everyone up to speed of 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 called me ease distortions in the coverage provided by russian state owned international broadcasters such as russia today the high court has ruled that russia today broadcasts actually potential harm what these officials just did ease set a precedent it's it's the worst sort of precedent one could set an 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 he has violated of course rules been fined by

off com which is true but 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 scene knives 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 a tricky business 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 peak protest this is

pretty protested neither against the leaders of the form of your position stands nor against his willingness to take money from russia today even flip flops from day to day basis because this is what i mean the prime minister stands there making things up the never paid jeremy 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 off court never found misinformation disinformation or untruths in any of these coverage of the soulsby incident to the bricks at referendum an analysis of off calm violations paint a very different picture to the role playing fantasy being. played out in the british parliament 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 concert 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 right because

the of with a report will do stevens the labor m.p. who wrote the letter about r.t. girls in the past repeatedly stressed the need to all polled media freedom. our press freedom is a wonderful thing and something we must protect at all costs to help people to be informed journalists have a fundamental right to work free from fear we condemn the violent imitation and threats and regenerate our and of even support to the dedicated journalists who shine a light on behalf of us all. always nice to welcome onto the program new york wallace neil is a media commentator and former editor of the news of the world newspaper neal good to see you as you may have just heard joe stevens the labor m p is really all about press freedom that seems to have been put to the side for no is attempting to shut down a news channel any good way of ensuring press freedom thing. absolutely

not it's a ludicrous idea and you know i would suggest to you that the lady's dedication to press freedom there was probably simply convenient for the moment because as the labor party has not made a wreck great record on the reality impressed freedom of the labor party are very good at is press freedom where it suits them and you know this is a significant issue here is that if our team is breaking the rules then there is an independent regulator called off call and if they. criticize. our t.v. then so be it it is not for politicians it's absolutely is not the politicians to be trying to close down media organizations just because they don't happen to light what did you say so i can't stones. channel for

use in the u.k. i can't stand a program on the b.b.c. called news night which i believe is extremely left wing and is very happily to try and listen troops would i cool that they used to be but i'm from the airways no i wouldn't i think you simply have to argue against it and if you don't like what our team is doing call it out argue against it go on there and say you're wrong but by many things is not beyond search a political party absolutely should not be calling for the timing of a t.v. channel unless if one of come decide didn't you have to go then so be it but for political parties to be campaigning to close down any kind of news out that is simply not acceptable well just picking up. on the point the overall picture here

are your thoughts and not because do you think the labor party actually cares abides r.t. or is this just the way of a new leader and getting an indirect way of bashing the tory. yeah i see you not see exactly what it's really about this is. you know we have a new leader in relative terms of the tory party in britain we now have a new leader all the labor policy the this report has been published which is a year old and basically has nothing whatsoever to do with boris johnson's time in office and all up long. but what they're trying to do is to find any way to and barris boris johnson this isn't about the right so wrong and. this is this is just a way to mount

a political attack on the conservative party and i'm using this situation as an excuse to do so. finding a way if you like to keep the story going you obviously have decades of experience in the media when it comes neal to to basic principles of impartiality and truthfulness you've pointed out that you know you may find certain station certain programs in the u.k. not to your liking unsimilar it's the opposite side for people probably on the other side of the political short term but do you think it's in any way fair to there for a single light r t u k 1st and foremost by a political party and do it to an independent. body such as off come for them to to to try and search an issue a problem with what's being broadcast. i think you know the answer to that and the answer is no they should absolutely not be doing something he's pretty straightforward if you. broadcast something and the labor party is outraged by it

broadcast then they already titled to complain to off call about the it the are the program all the news media element that you have broadcast it's just like i am i can't complain about you joe smith down the road the point being dots a specific thing and if you've got. issues with the broadcast then not is fine but the idea that you own principle campaign to an organization or a program simply if you light on principle is just not rageous it's just wrong as always thank you for your time thanks for coming on to the program media commentator former editor of news of the world newspaper new wallace. moving on iran's foreign ministry has accused the us of endangering the lives of

civilians after a pos and her plane was forced to abruptly change altitude to avoid collision with an american fighter jet several passengers were injured in the incident. was. not on them on when we were with 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. your plane approached our plane and caused the airplane to lose its balance and my head to the ceiling and lunch and then forget that in a hurry this video of the american f. 15 flying close to the passenger jet was released by rini and state media it's happened over syria when the airliner was on its way from tehran to beirut during the emergency maneuver the sudden jolt cola as possible just to hit their heads on

the roof of the cabin and left some sprawling on the floor the u.s. military insists it's kept a safe distance while conducting a visual inspection we discuss the situation with politics professor forward izadi . obviously the policy of maximum pressure campaign on your arm is not working and resorting to these type of tactics terrorizing women and children and. they're. not supposed to be in this. quarter there. should not be approaching a civilian. they should not be in syria that's the syrian government has asked the united states to leave. the plan that plan to be so gauging these type of activities that have violated the chicago convention. syria's sovereignty. they did not do this before and this is. an airline 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 decision may be out of office in general or the. security forces in portland oregon have been seen firing tear gas and rubber bullets not a crowd of protesters public anger has been boiling over since the deployment of u.s. federal troops there. the troops were sent in earlier this week by president to quell increasingly violent anti racism protests the white house claims the murder of portland has lost control of the city however more than 80 u.s. murders all of them democrats have voiced alarm over the federal crackdown. and all

the unrest has had small businesses in portland shops have been vandalized looted and over the past 2 months one of the targets here is a jury store it's been operating for 30 years back in may who just broke into the premises and stole numerous items the owner know how to stop its clients are afraid to go downtown because of the 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 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 that stuff 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 we don't hold people accountable this stuff is going to continue and if their leadership here hold the businesses the residents of downtown portland big time and despite this is happening there is no accountability being held right now against looters whispering into the other side of the american coast new york city is in the midst of a certain gun crime bill de blasio sees the blame for the brick down on law and order lies with the pandemic. in new york city we've been the safest big city in america for years we've had a very tough 2 months no doubt and it's directly related to the coronavirus the dislocation it's caused the fact that our court system is not functioning yet so many faxes well this is what is happening last month the number of shootings and burglaries in new york more than doubled compared to june last year now that happened just as the n.y.p.d. despondent its crime unit amid police protests last week however it announced

a new plan to counter the violence it includes shifting officers to more dangerous areas corey pigs a former new york police commander told us law enforcement needs to rethink its tire approach. yeah i think there's a lot of factors that are rising crime. coronavirus. that was inactive in the 7 just pretty much lay down and then i really do mean so look for running a foot in new york city in pretty much a state with a saying hey you don't want the police we're going to show you which i think they should be taking a proactive approach that at least for the police commissioner and his top leadership executive staff to come up with some innovative ideas not get rid of the anti-crime around the city violent ofr outplaying close i think they should have done something more appropriate for. the

iconic all of the fia in istanbul and it has reopened from muslim prayers with its 1st friday worship comes off the top turkish court revoked its status as a museum it is the 1st time. has been held in the building in almost 90 years crowds of worshippers gathered on the nearby square for the event turkish president tayyip erdogan. and a quick look out the history of the unesco world heritage sites.

from no one during purge the christian frescoes and i call the former cathedral will be covered with curtains at other times though the artworks will be kept on covered with the holy site open to tourists. some world leaders have criticized turning the site which was originally billed as a christian cathedral into a mosque again inside turkey the decision met with fame mixed reaction one turkish poster on that almost half of respondents thought i was an attempt to shift focus away from the country's economic woes here's what people in istanbul had to say about the issue. i also feel is a fundamental right of muslims it's been converted into a mosque as a result of this victory no muslims can pray freely when highness a fee 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 can there aren't supposed to be in the into thief conflicts it is important that i assume remains a museum and it is important that it becomes a mosque but it doesn't matter to me this is. because you know i'm stupid arms for as the center of the muslim. world now keep the writers who raise them or are no. orders. and perhaps preparing elections in therapy so this is

a domestic for you because i've been in this edition of mr erdogan is reality not weeds of france or greece the us in the same time of france or. civilization in the vehicle nuclear armament world is against this decision it has. relations. and the relations between. the union and the other groups can't lose their. day in the. museum. china has ordered the u.s. to shut its consulate in the city of chengdu it's a tit for tat move after washington ordered beijing to close its diplomatic mission in houston china say it's not looking for a fight. to major to 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 us

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 chinese internal affairs they honed china's national security interests china has repeatedly made representations to the former consulates and america is aware of this. the trumpet ministration ordered china to shut its houston consulate on tuesday mike pump a 0 defended the decision claiming that beijing was stealing intellectual property china call the closure of its calls for the political provocation and said its embassy in washington had received death threats due to anti chinese sentiment being whipped up by donald trump while the us a group state has called on other nations to form an alliance against beijing. but we have to admit hard truth we must have our to 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 trying to simply get it done the united nations nato. g 7 countries the g 20 our combined economic diplomatic and military power is surely enough to meet this challenge we directed clearly and with great courage to free world must try to over this new tyranny well we've been getting expert analysis on the entire situation including from china expert who believes the u.s. is acting in fear many people in the united states are extremely upset with the very authoritarian way that the truck administration is dealing with the protesters and basically trying to. not following the norms and violating human rights

a lot of people would probably cry foul and say oh you sound like you're being a hypocrite here us for all of the folks basically are worried that china would eclipse the us economically and then therefore politically be and in militarily over time and that's their biggest fear i don't think it has it in to human rights. a youth court in germany has given a sentence to a 93 year old man at the age of 17 he was an s.s. concentration camp guard he's been convicted of over 5000 counts of excess free to murder their europe correspondent peter all over has the story this 2 year suspended sentence that was handed down to 93 year old bruno de could well be the last verdict handed down to a perpetrator of crimes during the holocaust he was found guilty of being an accessory to $5232.00 counts of murder while he was an s.s.

guards at the 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 the settled because they suspended sentence for. mass murder even when the defendant was a teenager juvenile is basically sending the wrong signal is there also

a verdict is balanced this verdict is also a signal to foreign countries namely that these crimes will be punished even 70 to 75 years after must murder the judge. said that bruno de viewed himself as just a member of the in the killings that were going on she also contradicted claims made by the defense team that the 93 year old would have tried to escape from the camp himself if an opportunity had a risen 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 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 of the german court that will be seen through to completion. debating the issue and china is playing in the american election cycle and scrolls talk next close season . welcome to mexico as are identical survival. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain. as a report. problem drug. dollars come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to every state in the united

states we've seen very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids it invaded 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 is to blame patients doctors manufacturers all the governments of. hello and welcome across topper all things are considered i'm pujol about how is the issue of china playing out in the american election cycle and by the trade

themselves as being tough on beijing maybe they are at least rhetorically but reality tells a very different story and it is bipartisan the commanding heights of industry and finance have courted china for decades and have the riches to show for it is this china. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest sarah issue in knoxville she is a visiting scholar and done university and in beijing we crossed the jungle he is a professor at the university of international business and economics across up rules in effect that means you can jump and we don't you want and i always appreciate it ok let's go to sarah and not still sarah what role is china playing in the american election because i said in my introduction both.