what he said. is headline stories u.s. officials raid the chinese consulate in houston after its vacated washington's orders the u.s. secretary of state polls on other nations to join forces against china. this is another 9. u.s. federal troops. to break up a crowd of. facemask law takes effect in england failure to wear them in public places can mean a hefty fine but so far the reaction has been. i

think it's important to abide by these rules because i think there's a lot of times that goes behind i think he should have been implemented from the beginning. from the russian capital international my name's you know neal you are very welcome to the program. the chinese foreign ministry has accused the u.s. of violating international law by breaking into its consulate in houston to retaliate american agents were seen forcing their way through the door right after chinese officials were required to vacate the building the raid happened on friday president ordered the closure earlier in the week accusing beijing of stealing intellectual property justice department claim consular staff were obstructing an investigation meanwhile in the chinese city of chang do on the right of your screen

the american culture has been shut down and a hitch. just seen there are taking rubbish by the building one of the bikes had split appeared to contain shredded paper. in a related development a chinese researcher has been arrested in san francisco telling is accused of not the losing her military affiliations in her visa application she is one of 4 visiting researchers who have recently been accused of these are for old beijing has condemned the crackdown on urged the united states to stop harassing chinese students researchers double quarter looks they owned going escalation. since the 1970 s. u.s. foreign policy has used more honey than vinegar and its dealings with beijing china has definitely changed as a result but not exactly the way washington wanted it to you know the world was

much different than we imagined. it would produce a future with bright promise of comedy and cooperation. but today today we're all still wearing masks and watching the pandemics body count rise because the c.c.p. failed in its promises to the world if we want to have a free 21st century and not the chinese century of which dreams. the old paradigm of blinding gauge with china simply won't get it done speech seems to have a lot in common with that of winston churchill's when he declared an iron curtain had descended across europe dividing it into soviet and western spheres it was the beginning of the cold war and with pomp ails us against them rhetoric another cold war between the u.s. and china may be brewing this isn't about containment don't buy that. it's about a complex new challenge that we've never faced before. the u.s.s.r. was closed off from the free world communist china is already within our borders

washington's hostile stance is no doubt part of a recent pitfall in sino u.s. relations while waistband in the us ach. he's ations of tech disputes in the south china sea it's all reminding experts of a warning former president richard nixon made decades ago we must cultivate join a jury in the next few decades want it is learning to develop its national strength and potential otherwise we will one day be confronted with the most familiar blue enemy that has ever existed in the history of the world unfortunately for washington nixon was right when he was president china was still an economically backwards country with its eyes on rapid development fast forward to the present and the communist parties accomplished much of what it set out to do it's lifted millions out of abject poverty it led the country to what looks like a quick recovery from the cove in 1000 pandemic it doesn't seem willing to stop in the face of washington statements. which ignore facts and often of ideological bias and cold woman telling our hodgepodge of political lies intensively made

recently by senior u.s. officials accusations of human rights abuses authoritarian name calling pump has even labeled china's system a new tyranny it does all sound a bit crusade but then again it's nothing new in america's foreign policy playbook the troika of charity in this hemisphere cuba venezuela and nicaragua has finally met its match pressers regimes and ideologies forces of oppression to tell a tear in ism and domination well despite the trumpet ministrations best efforts the so-called troika of tyranny is still around even where u.s. backed regime change was successful it's still no walk in the park in iraq the government is basically powerless to combat militias that see it as a us puppet and in countries where the u.s. failed like venezuela it's a huge waste of taxpayer money china though is a lot more powerful and with u.s. allies unwilling to get behind this new strategy pompei all might need to rethink

his approach because. the world has already danish. studied and actually in my opinion there are so corners to work between china and america has never stopped or in the past 3 decades because the united states has never stopped in the way of thinking of cold war talk to when they are thinking about their china the whole world is a very clear which country which at the ministry is more terror in the world in the war death fancy specially or so this is the key question that a for many people to understand i think that defeat the united states would be really to run need that to and the ruling in interference in the other countries you affairs. yet another standoff between protesters and federal forces in the us city of portland things got violent when people marched on the federal courthouse they were met there with tear gas and rubber bullets.

federal forces were sent in earlier this week by president trump to quell anti racism protests which has got increasingly violent some residents and business owners have complained their city has been turned into a war zone by the riots but more than a dozen u.s. mers most of them democrats voice the alarm over the federal crack down on the u.n. has now allotting its concern over the security response. peaceful demonstrations

that have been taking place and citizen the u.s. such a sport really must be able to continue with that those positions beaten them and i'll say the people reporting and the journalists risk an arbitrary address to detach and being subject to unnecessary disproportionate discriminants or use of force or suffering other violations of the rights well since the riots began in portland 18 people have been arrested on charges including arson and the list and we heard from locals about the federal crackdown. part of the drum circle or even. just a really nasty. dirty truth from the birth. of you know what's right with the rubber bullet at night.

we. were. all right let's turn our attention to him into our face coverings our mother tree and all public spaces but this raised the question over who should monitor compliance some major retailers on smaller shop 2 are saying it's not up to them to enforce the new rules or u.k. correspondent sally reports. provide a it's now mandatory for people in england to wear a face mask when they go to shop supermarket so they go to pick up a delivery now we're going to go on to the streets of london to try to see what the public think they should done this before coronavirus point. the fact that it's running one people 100 pounds. and probably being money out of people's health just that that kind of public picture of government. i think we should have been implementing from the beginning. i think it's important to abide by these rules visit think there's

a lot of science that goes behind coming up with these rules most of the shops that i went into weren't really forcing the rules those that were just said that they would recommending people to where mosques to cover their faces now many of those shop workers don't want to be enforcing those rules because they fear aggression and backlash from certain members of the public if they were to try to make people wear masks with hundreds of incidents of violence and abuse directed at retail stuff every day we welcome then ousmane that in force meant to be left to their thought rather than potentially put in hard working retail colleagues in harms way if. someone refuses to wear a face mask probably we can kindly asked him to leave but as to enforcing it it's not it's viable it will be certain people would be upset about it. and they did the most controlling boss for us also as well is

a weekend in short if you can always encourage people to have it but. god knows how we've done and sort of the government of said that those who refused to wear face masks when going into shops could be fined up to $100.00 pounds should an individual without an exemption refuse to wear a face covering a shop can refuse them entry and can call the police if people refuse to comply the police have full into. powers and can issue a fine and the police don't seem to be too keen either saying that making them in force that is both unrealistic and unfair policing the wearing of face coverings in shops can't be a priority because we simply don't have the resources to expect my colleagues to be policing the supermarket aisles looking for those shoppers not wearing a face covering is unrealistic and unfair the u.k. has had one of the worst coronavirus death tolls of any country around the world there are some who say that these measures are better late than never but many

others who feel but it's far too little thought through lay beside the artsy london . people in the far eastern russian city of harbor off scar protesting for a 3rd consecutive weekend in support of their former governor he was arrested earlier this month the locations of ordering murders 15 years ago r.t. senior correspondent rutgers the picks up a story. 7 tons those away in the region of the bottom of the pacific ocean there are very different opinions on the entire affair the entire case of sergei for go he was arrested on very serious charges and this was a high profile arrest of the suspicion of organizing the kidnapping in the mud multiple entrepreneurialism and this case is divided russians all over the country the official statistic that we've heard is 6500 people attending this demonstration

unofficial reports going up 220000 people are still angry they demand the dismissal of these cases a little i went out into the streets because i could not take it anymore i'm boiling over and sat with support for girl who want justice to prevail did you mean i don't like the political situation in the country i am dissatisfied with our government and officials it is a simple as that society has matured to the point of expressing its indignation about what is happening in the far east sygate for god himself has maintained his innocence throughout and says he looks forward to the investigation against the being brought to an end is also enjoyed a lot of popularity of street. reputation as a governor who cares a governor who has an ear to the concerns of constituents and. he's made a habit of dressing down very publicly officials that have either been incompetent to. 'd work his temporary replacement dictator of hasn't

been welcomed with open arms protests to say that he doesn't belong he has no ties to the region and that you know that much prefer the old governor nevertheless the new governor says he's there to stay and he's going to do a good job going. let's respect each other let's work together as i've been doing for food days in the governor's office. i came here all of your complaints are taken into account so that all government bodies work smoothly i will spend the weekend on a trip around the region. still the new governor and protesters are at loggerheads because the protesters who gather in these huge crowds they say he is refused to come out to speak with them to engage with them which is signs of weak this fear even self says he has the time to waste that there is a lot to be done that the big show everything runs smoothly that there is

a smooth transition in the years advise the protesters to stop attending these needless and meaningless protests that instead devote their energy and enthusiasm to volunteer work for example. just out to go out rallies take in place here in moscow in solidarity with the protests in. according to local media police arrested between 50 and 40 people out on authorized gatherings in the center of the capital the activists who are on their way to the russian prosecutor general's office to submit a petition in support of mr for a go. on the fiction but brought in for the pandemic expires in the u.s. with many fearing they will lobby for one. great start story and more after the short.

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again rallies have been held across greece against the conversion of istanbul as i asked the fia into a mosque on friday historic landmark held its 1st muslim prayers in 1000 years and thessalonica greek orthodox protesters burned turkish flags sparking condemnation from monka banners were on display with a message for the homeland the nation orthodoxy demonstrators also marched on the turkish consulate in the city. i mean this is a totally barbaric and on civilized turning heise of fear into a mosque this actually goes against all of the docs people this is not right from

the turkish because they have been your churches to create to got fried is muslim prayers through crowds of worshippers who filled the nearby square turkey's president. was also in attendance surrounded by senior officials the turkish leader participated in the service m decided verses from the qur'an he then expressed his delight they reconversion. you see to live in them. this is been a yearning since our youth we used to say let the chains break in highest afia open as a mosque we've ended an 86 year period hyas of fear has now returned to its essence it was a mosque and it's a mosque a game let's go through for the eye a severe originally it was built. the eastern roman empire is a cathedral then it became a mosque after the ultimate conquest in $1035.00 it was converted into a museum but earlier this month turkey transformed it back into a mosque the only does christiane topless

a former greek ambassador to canada believes the change in sofia status is done to the president attempting to take attention away from a troubled economy. well i think that he was doing it all maybe also for internal reasons because his popularity is dropping now in that turkey because of the economic crisis and also my precious is that he is trying to put down at that the founder of modern turkey so this is an attack also against the demolished regime in turkey so basically it's an internal problem that has international ramifications i don't think that he cares anything about statements being done the only thing that she might care would be if concrete measures were taken like the e.u. taking sanctions against against turkey for violating international

law and violating that there is a real integrity of 2 of its member states which is greece and cyprus we must not forget that the e.u. has taken sanctions against russia for reasons much less. and which which i personally don't agree with or met yet it refuses or the moment to take sanctions against turkey. the chief of a u.k. arts charity has accused british museums of being hypocritical in their support of the black lives matter movement or france's ses these institutions are 1st relinquish items and their collections taken by force from africa he spoke to r.t. . you've got to clean up your own house before you start talking about other people and simple response to it it's contradictory really to not have dealt with the whole issue about colonial provenance and also the not complying in the

workforce i've also said and also support but not matter that seemed incompatible to me. well the comments come after several high profile galleries and museums responded to the black lives matter of movement with words of support very direct ones as well the british museum director for example wrote a blog post last month saying the institution stands in solidarity with black people throughout the world but the british museum itself has been under pressure for years to return works of art looted from former colonies now those include the been in bronze is taken by british soldiers from nigeria also the greek parthenon marbles and an easter island statue u.k. legislation currently prevents national institutions from returning looted idea in their collections except in the case of art stolen during the nazi era but a british museum spokesperson said the institution is working on changes when it comes to displaying the objects on is being opened up by the history of the

collection to arrow francis again says museums need to change. role of the newseum . and also the means by which they shouldn't be assembled is being questioned there's quite a lot of documentation about how these objects came into the possession of the museum so we need to know whether or not it was taken with a consent when asking for a new kind of music that is more humanitarian and pays greater attention to human rights. armenia and azerbaijan are locked in a deadly border dispute on the shock waves are now being felt here in moscow which is home to large communities from both countries more than 30 people have been arrested in a string of incidents in the latest russia group of azerbaijani men were caught on camera smashing the windows of an armenian cafe a member of staff was reportedly assaulted just a few hours earlier

a group of armenians vandalized another bridge on the restaurant's reportedly beating up stuff and reading the cash register and on thursday a car with an armenian number plate was smashed up on the driver of moscow police have issued a warning to both community saying offenders could be deported and blacklisted for 5 years earlier this month the 2 countries saw their deadliest cross border shelling since 2016 with a dozen azerbaijani and 5 armenian soldiers. in the us and eviction meant to soften the blow of the cruel a virus crisis has expired putting millions of americans out risk of losing their homes it happens as the daily infection rate shows little sign of slowing down. the united states hit harder than any other nation by the coronavirus things to be getting worse with many americans becoming a lot more vulnerable very soon after the eviction ban is lifted millions of americans who are renters who live in buildings with mortgages backed by the

government could soon be out on the street here in new york the record trends of folks that were applying for temporary housing in the. shelter system more than what we had seen and many many missed a year and there has not been a response in terms of how we will address of course opening back up with people facing eviction so we're looking at just about thousands tens of thousands of families in households facing homelessness many for the 1st time in their lives now aside from the huge social shock this is also a public health emergency all of those who've been turned out of their homes will huddle together with relatives or seek shelter when hope 19 was added. it was a fight to try to get our elected officials to understand that folks need to be isolated and that it's a keep them safe from cope 19 so we found that

a lot of our homeless by this is. what actually avoid going into shelter knowing that they were overcrowded and cubase and for the spread of over 19 and they would have rather it stay on the street whether that been an incoming web know whether that would have been without the proper resources on the street the pandemic has brought the u.s. economy to a standstill it appeared that the surge in job losses was subsiding but this past week job loss numbers have been rising once again many fear that the u.s. economy is too weak to swiftly recover certainly $3000000.00 americans are officially unemployed now the $600.00 per week unemployment enhanced meant is currently set to expire it could be extended if congress chooses to do that but it appears that's unlikely at the moment. unfortunately by all accounts the senate republicans are drafting legislation that comes up short in a number of vital areas such as extending unemployment benefits or funding for

rental assistance hazard premium pay for front line workers or investments in communities of color being ravaged by the virus and many other necessary provisions the u.s. senate is currently deadlocked over the economic stimulus bill with many hoping that it will pass in august meanwhile the infection rates in a number of u.s. states are rising and as it appears that a number of americans are on the brink of losing their incomes and their homes the situation in the united states regarding the pandemic is starting to look pretty bleak cable mop and artsy new york votes are a sudden evening headlines from moscow will keep the news rolling at the top of the hour in the meantime get comfortable because some more great programs get their start in mere moments discover what's showing where you are after the break.

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are speculating on the death of companies and companies that are dying and declare their dead companies and their client plowing their way to speculate on on the death of a company. this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss for in washington coming up a major settlement has been made between goldman sachs and the malaysian government as part of the one m.v.p. scandal we'll take a look at the latest plus the increased tensions between the united states and china are continue to affect world markets will go for a spin around the globe to see how markets ended the week and later a series of blockbuster films have been delayed due. the pandemic we welcome in a movie industry expert to discuss what effect it will have on the bottom line we

have a packed show today so let's dive right in. and a huge settlement today as u.s. investment bank goldman sachs has agreed to pay a $3900000000.00 settlement over malaysia's criminal probe into the multibillion $1.01 m. d.b. scandal now the settlement could also help bring an end to the u.s. justice department's investigation into the same issue now the deal includes a $2500000000.00 cash payout by goldman and its guarantee to return at least $1400000000.00 in proceeds from assets linked to the sovereign wealth fund one malaysia development b h d now malaysian and u.s. authorities estimate $4500000000.00 was stolen from one m.t.b. in an elaborate scheme that spanned the globe and implicated high level officials in the in the fun former malaysian prime minister najib razak goldman staff and many others joining us now to discuss his boom bust co-host investigative

journalist ben swan ben thank you for being here to break this all down let's start with helping the viewers understand what is one m d b yeah it's a pretty complicated story but this is probably the easiest part to wrap your head around here which is this is one malaysia or development it was essentially the government's investment firm right which was set up to encourage outside development and investment into malaysia that's why it was set up was back in 2009 it was the then prime minister who was in charge of this right and he actually was on that advisory board headed up the whole idea was we're going to bring investment into the country sounds good the problem is it didn't do that instead it was wound up creating massive amounts of debt running up about $12000000000.00 in debt.