no dairy thinks. we dare to ask. you. this hour's headlines stories the u.k.'s all position labor party is pushing for our to use broadcast license. among them in a letter to britain's independent t.v. regulator also ahead this hour. i'm. several people on board in their reunion passenger plane are injured after the pilot is forced to make a dangerous maneuver during an encounter with a u.s.

fighter jet. the sunshine 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 a new tyranny. one minute past 8 pm in helsinki in baghdad and here in moscow this friday july 25th with a warm welcome to the program i'm you know neal. our top story the u.k.'s opposition labor party is pushing for artie's broadcast license to be revoked they laid out their demands in a letter to the country's t.v. regulator ofcom the watchdog is supposed to be independent and immune from political pressure in. texas through developments. these must

be some sort of record in order vanity's history it has done less harm if any booth 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 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 of course 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 did ease set a precedent it's it's the worst sort of precedent one could set an attempt to pressure off call 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. 49 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 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 a 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 all of course never found misinformation disinformation or untruths in any of our coverage of the soulsby incident or the brakes at referendum an analysis of off call violations pay and there are different picture to the role playing

fantasy being. played out in the british parliament has a comparable a better broadcasting standards record than you kate 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 worried 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 this spectacle unfold what is own worst example you can do of the russian

interference well that's the question which we want to have answered. rutgers the of with the report well joe stevens dance the labor m.p. who wrote the letter about our tea house in the palace repeatedly stressed the need to uphold 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 rita rate and they were in support of the dedicated journalists who shine a light on behalf of us all is blatantly hypocritical because she was in the house of commons talking about press freedom and yet the same very sane person writes this this is outrageous letter and i think we sometimes use that word outrageous too freely but this is generally outrageous and a leading british parliamentarians shadow spokes person on media writing to the independent the supposedly independent media regulation u.k.

basically urging it to take a television station or to close it down there needs to be a backlash against this and what the labor party's doing at the moment is quite at it really they are attempting to be more hawkish on russia but the government that seems to be the line they're taking. we now have the words of secure stammers 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 devastated by the fact that sick here starmer seems obsessed by wanting to destroy a free press in britain puts the british labor party in in the spotlight because that with 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 an 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's 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 don't think this is a very significant letter from the labor party view that they've declared that they're now on the russians and they're going to become patriots and defending values well. whom i did wrong come as independent and can take

it. and shouldn't feel pressured by either the labor party at all the conservative blogger. moving the program on around foreign ministry has accused the us of endangering the lives of civilians after a passenger plane was forced to abruptly change altitude to avoid collision with an american fighter jet several passengers were injured in the instant. 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 into it. a black a airplane approached our plane and caused the airplane to lose its balance and i had to heat the ceiling and can you imagine what it must have been like this video

of the american f. 15 flying close to the past. jed was released by iranian state media and it all happened over syria when the liner was on its way from tehran to beirut during the emergency maneuver the sudden jolt cause passengers to hit their heads on the roof of the cabin and left sprawling on the floor the u.s. military insists its aircraft kept a safe distance while conducting a visual inspection we discussed the situation with politics professor in around 4 and as avi. obviously the policy of maximum pressure campaign on your own is not working and resorting to these type of tactics terrorizing women and children on a civilian airliner. not supposed to be in this corridor air corridor so there. should not be approaching a civilian airliner that's illegal and should not be in syria. the syrian

government has asked the united states to leave its to the syria is an independent plan to be sold by gauging these type of activities that have violated the chicago convention they have syria's solvency. they did not do this before this is. an airliner 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. let's bring you stateside down to the west coast events where security forces in portland oregon have been seen firing tear gas rubber bullets at a crowd of protesters public anger really has been boiling over since the deployment of u.s. federal troops there. ok

. the troops were sent in earlier this week by president all trying to quell increasingly violent racism protests the white house claims the murder of portland has lost control of the city however more than a dozen u.s. as all democrats voiced alarm over the federal crush on you know all the unrest has had small businesses hard in portland shops have been vandalized the looted over the past 2 months one of the targets was a jewelry store that's been operating for 30 years back in may the looters 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. are 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 fish oils 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 subfield 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 the movie and we don't hold people accountable this stuff is going to continue and if their leadership failed that business is the residence of downtown portland big time and despite this is happening there is no accountability being held right now against looters over on the other side of the country new york city is in the midst of a surge in gun crime on the murder bill de blasio sees the blame for the breakdown of law and order lives with a pandemic we've had a very tough few months no doubt and it is directly related to the coronavirus that dislocation it's caused in our society the fact of court system is not functioning

yet. last month the number of shootings and burglaries in new york more than double compared to last year that happened just as the n.y.p.d. disbanded its crime unit police protests last week however it announced a new plan to counter the violence and include shifting officers to more dangerous areas. a former new york police commander told us law enforcement needs to reexamine its entire approach. the i think there's a lot of them to be when in fact these that are rising crime you need to coronavirus i believe some of the laws that was in acted in the senate just pretty much lay down and then i really do and so look for memo's a run in a foot in new york city in pretty much a state where they're saying hey we 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 unit around the city around 3 since the crowd plainclothes i think they should have done something more appropriate. in istanbul has reopened for muslim prayers with its 1st friday worship it comes after a top turkish court revoked its status as a museum it's the 1st time an islamic service has been held in the building in almost 90 years crowds of worshipers gathered on the nearby square for the event turkish president tayyip erdogan was also in attendance here's a quick look at the history of the unesco world heritage site.

incredible places anybody has visitors while the test will leave christian frescoes for no enduring prayers and indeed icons of the former cathedral will be covered with curtains at other times though the artworks will be kept on coverage with the holy site open to tourists some world leaders criticize turning the site which was as we say originally built as a christian cathedral into a mosque again inside turkey the decision was met with a mixed reaction indeed one turkish poster found that almost half of respondents saw it as an attempt to shift focus away from the country's economic woes here is what people in istanbul had to say but 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 any 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. mr. or you. because you know i'm stupid. as the center of the muslim. world now hit the right range the more. you supporters of. the perhaps preparing elections

are in therapy so this is is a domestic for you because i've been in this usually. is the reality. of france or greece the us at the same time france or. civilisational nicol near our world is against this decision it harms relationships. and that elations between europe and the european union and the other. countries there. they need. a story that shows little sign of deescalating. china has ordered the u.s. to shut its consulate in the city of chang to it is a tit for tat move after washington ordered beijing to close its diplomatic mission

in houston china says it's not looking for a fight. 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 chinese internal affairs they harmed china's national security interests china has repeatedly made representations to the former consulates and america is aware of this well that's timeline things a little of the trouble ministration ordered china to shut its houston consulate on tuesday my pompei on u.s. secretary of state defended the decision claiming that beijing was stealing intellectual property china called the closure of its calls that a political provocation and said its embassy in washington had received death

threats due to anti chinese sentiment being whipped up by they say donald trump you know mr pompeo called on other nations to form an alliance against beijing. but we have to admit hard truth we estimate are true 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 what dreams are all paradigm a blinding gauge with china simply get it done the united nations nato. and she 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 triumph over this new tyranny we spoke to china expert on leave who believes the u.s. is acting in fear. many people in the united states are strangely 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 oh 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 u.s. foreign policy 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's as it into human rights. juvenile court in germany 100 done a suspended sentence to a 93 year old the age of 17 he was an s.s. concentration come current he's been convicted of over 5000 counts of accessory to murder her europe correspondent peter all over the 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. 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 a suspended sentence for a mass murder even when the defendant was a teenager juvenile is basically sending the wrong signal this is the author of 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 on my a good bring said that bruno de viewed himself as just an observer 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 allowed 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. there's a new front in the us russia standoff and this time it's thousands of kilometers above us washington has accused russia of testing a new space weapon according to america's new space command a suspicious projectile was fired by a russian inspector satellite last week this is further evidence of russia's continuing efforts to develop and test space based systems and consistent with the kremlin's published military doctrine to employ weapons that hold united states and

lightspeed assets at risk the u.k. has chimed in on those accusations a defense ministry official accuse russia of launching a space project with the car terroristic sort of weapon or moscow has given a very different version of events the foreign ministry said the test took place on july the 15th in which a small space vehicle was sent from one russians of light to inspect another. the tests that the russian defense ministry conducted enjoy the 15th did not pose any threat to other space objects and most importantly did not violate any norms and principles of international law u.s. and u.k. officials comments on the matter a part of the washington initiated information campaign aimed at discrediting russia's space activities and peaceful initiatives preventing an arms race in space washington and london are trying to deflect the public attention from their own deployment of weapons in space and attempts to gain funding for these ngs. it's kind of hard for me as an american to. hypocritical for russia to be testing and

developing space weapons while at the same time proposing that we enter negotiations 2 or band of such weapons that russia and china been proposing that for at least 20 years and the united states has consistently rejected that proposal has not really been willing to enter negotiations at all so i don't think it's hypocritical at all for russia to be testing such weapons when we refuse to engage in any discussion of banning or restricting them in any way we are grappling with the markets again in moments been bus will be here on your screens making sense of the economic picture. and then after that our team erica takes over the reins for a few hours as we enter the weekend hope you'll stick around for that i mean o'neill from all the team in moscow goodbye for not.

you cannot be both with the yeah you're. always the issue of trying to playing out in the american election cycle both trump and biden betray themselves as being tough on beijing maybe they are at least rhetorically but in reality those are very different story and it's bipartisan the commanding heights of industry and finance for to china for day one of the bridges

to show is this china. syria has been engulfed in civil war for almost 10 years it's cost hundreds of thousands of lives and displaced millions more no $1.00 foresaw the peaceful protests of 20 of them is collating into a complex conflict between various armies geopolitical interests rebel groups and jihadists. they are on the book on this. but if you tell us if you say in the hague because i'm. best at the show look cool and. you know deep down to look.

closely at them and see a day out of. an ordinary has sat down i feel that it never stops times them other than the shame what i did on the. that paid a shock to hear. if. this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss i'm going to bore in washington coming up jobless claims the united states are up for the 1st time in months as the coppa 910 demick continue to surge in some parts of the country straight ahead we break down the numbers.