in that world for well. first of all in the 30th of july in the headline is the u.s. is pulling nearly 12000 troops from germany payback the white house says for not paying enough into nato although the defense secretary's choice of words is not. the importance of nato any alliance sharing the burden so we can all deter russia and avoid peace. big tex for most powerful c.e.o.'s get a grilling at the u.s. congress over political censorship and competition concerns. to get

conservatives that's not a suspicion that someone on stats a fact i believe it is in fact your company that is engaging in the election interference and i'm familiar with the details by. hundreds of health workers much on turning street to demand a pay rise for all of the sectors saying they're still battling the pandemic on the front line and getting all the applause in. the morning to the nationals will be sent here in moscow kevin 0 in with you for the update for this next hour we stick around and maybe to the whole thing ok we started with this the united states is slashing its military presence in germany it's withdrawing all redeploying nearly $12000.00 personnel it's part of a long running dispute with claiming it's not paying enough into the nato military alliance although a slip of the tongue by the u.s. defense secretary raised a few eyebrows to. i've said very privately to my counterparts as well

about the importance of nato any alliance sharing the burden so we can all deter russia and avoid peace blog to berlin up to speed all of us the morning paper clip is probably going to come but still a bit of a worry though for germany isn't it. but we've all had them kevin haven't we where we've said something just slightly wrong and let the words get away from us but mania of never being the defense of a nuclear state yes this story what we're seeing is it was been coming for a little while it's been confirmed now almost 12000 u.s. troops will either be withdrawn or will be withdrawn from germany they'll either be sent back to the united states or repositioned elsewhere on the continent we're looking at $6400.00 that will be returning to the united states $5400.00 elsewhere in europe donald trump the u.s.

president has called berlin delinquent in the past when it comes to paying its way on the fence budgets that he says or his government says is being the trigger behind them the siding to go ahead on withdrawing these troops from germany. let's be clear i think germany is the wealthiest country in europe germany can and should pay more to its defense it should certainly meet the 2 percent standard and i would argue go above and beyond that. well the number of troops that will be withdrawn is higher than the 9000 that was suggested by president trump earlier this month market zone or the minister president of the state of bavaria where some of those troops are stationed and also a man he's tipped as an outside bet to replace angle americal as chancellor when

she steps down next year markets that has said that this will have an impact on the relationship between germany and the united states the u.s. government's decision was very regrettable it's unfortunate listerine in the u.s. human relations it's not clear what the game is from a military standpoint. and the us itself in the long run. well the announcement of this news prompted a lot of domestic politicking in the united states the democratic senator from new jersey bob menendez saying that champagne would be popping in the kremlin at this news that despite the reality that moscow is less than happy about this because what it would seem is that quite a considerable chunk of those troops that are going to be repositioned could be sent to poland right on russia's border u.s. troops being repositioned to now here in germany both foreign minister heiko moss and the german chancellor angela merkel have

a great concerns about the issues in the relationship between berlijn and washington a lot of those issues go back to the north stream 2 gas pipeline that we've seen a group of senators from oil and gas states in the united states wanting to put sanctions on companies and for a pee in market the problem is that is more expensive than piping it in directly and it seems that both senators and washington in general create king to flex their economic their diplomatic and their sanction muscles in order to try and convince germany at that they should go with the u.s. product however angela merkel and tyco must both saying that should donald trump leave office should he be voted out in november this wouldn't automatically reset the german u.s. relationship back to where it was. we grew up in the certain knowledge that the united states wanted to be and world power should the u.s.

now wish to draw from that through all of the cereal would have to reflect on that very deeply everyone who thinks everything in transatlantic partnership will be as it once was with a democratic president underestimates the structural changes. $12000.00 u.s. troops will be leaving germany as washington continues its policy of how to lose friends and alienate people to play matic lee we are all over our europe correspondent in berlin the pre-shared it let you get on with your day. the next problem in casinos 2 hotels 2 office blocks the name trump is plastered on many prime addresses isn't it but an israeli settlement named after the u.s. president as a thank you for his back in a territorial dispute is looking much less resplendent. to take a look. what does president trump love more than seeing his name in golden letters on a big sign well praise and recognition one would say and here in northern israel he's

got both trump heights in the middle of nowhere a thank you from benjamin netanyahu to his american body for doing what most of the international community would not recognize this is the golan heights as part of israel you have been an incredible friend for israel and you've done extraordinary things for the jewish state which we are eternally grateful to much fanfare and celebrations you might imagine an idyllic place but the 1st thing you see is the settlement gate which doesn't close completely and there's a gap here through which i can just go into it but jari gets into it and then you find that no boulevard or fancy entrance leading into the village instead of hot overgrown with weeds and howls of stern a far cry from what you'd expect the entrance into trump heights would look like when you think a place like you had a 2nd chance you see this this building used to be the common law say to be regional village for him and now 80 although he's been a fantasy name change

a new settlement his filter attract many residents today less than a dozen lives here and right now no one seems to be who. you know. is the only one poem hello. it's all captured this territory from syria during the 19676 day war and later and next to 981 now most of the international community considers that annexation illegal and does not consider the golan heights as part of israel locals don't take it seriously either and this was i think it's not a good location it's very hard it's a neglected area and i simply don't know why people go to live there for us it was the bigger issue this is going to want to see because we think it's all roads are going to get. sued. bruce who has evoked work to produce this is an american issue. through. the israeli government says plans are underway to

eventually house $300.00 families but in the years since truck prices beeman overrated nothing's being done maybe it doesn't even matter if the un has been bestowed the facts on marginal after all we live in an era of fake news as president trying to get likes to see. r.t. heights northern israel. this is the 1st the most powerful bosses in big tech got a dressing down from u.s. lawmakers over their market power and claims of political censorship their heads all got together of facebook google and apple facing congress and so too did the world's richest man and boss jeff bezos who made his 1st appearance. techs out to get conservatives that's not a suspicion that's not a hunch that's a fact those are my words but yes congressman not familiar with the specifics of the particular issue i believe it is in fact your company that is engaging in the

election interference in there with the. i don't remember at all can you assure us today you're not going to try to silence conservatives and can you assure us today you're not going to try to configure your features as said you did for clinton 16 can you assure us that you're not going to do the same thing for joe biden in 2020. can't answer the question yes or no. while it's little wonder there are monopoly concerns the combined market value of the world's big 4 is greater than the in german economy plus with political advertising regulations increasingly in place it's spread to the social we do giants play a crucial role in the elections. why is towards the democrats america's been discussing those concerns. about the timing of all of this why is it happening right now is there any significance to that well there definitely isn't the chairman of the subcommittee spoke out today when the hearing started and he said that this is even more important now because as we're still dealing with

a lockdown as a result of the coronavirus pandemic it is really hit small businesses the hardest and in turn it has actually made these 4 big tech companies there they're talking about even more powerful than before take a listen products of the covert 900 demick these corporations already stood out as titans in our economy in the wake of corbett 1009 where they're likely to emerge stronger and more powerful than ever before as american family shift more of their work shopping and communication online these giant stand to profit locally owned businesses meanwhile mom and pop stores on main street face an economic crisis unlike any in recent history now as we know these tech companies are no strangers to privacy concerns and so there have also been a lot of question. about how they use all of the information that they gather from their users that are on their platforms and where that's going to go in the future yeah i think that's a really good point i think you have to look at the fact that essentially all these different companies could be i believe they are but could be violated antitrust

laws in some fashion in some way or another they do seem to be engaging in very similar conduct which is essentially keeping competition from rising up using data to hold back competition all competition goes away no one is big enough or rich enough to be able to compete and also as we all know these companies are kind of the same in that they're all data companies that's actually what they are they're companies that mine our data and then sell that data that's how they're so powerful is anything actually going to be done by congress to draft this or is this kind of an opportunity for those on the hill to do some grandstanding and ruffle their feathers. i think it's a lot of grandstanding i don't think much is going to come out of this and there's a couple of reasons for that you and i have been talking about this for years that essentially these companies are abusing section $230.00 and acting not as platforms but as publishers there's really no discussion right now of removing that even though some members of congress want to do that the president has talked about doing that it's not happening and so the question becomes if you really want to get

these guys in line there's a couple of things you can do and one of them is to say you are in violation we're going to revoke it from you. every week at the height of the pandemic people across britain turned to applaud those health workers do such a super job it was appreciated the cost by medical stuff marching on the street on wednesday but they say they really could do with a decent pay rise across the sector and maybe as well as the clapping their message to government is clear thing won't pay my bills national health service stuff to get a pay rise but it's not until next spring so now you even say the money is needed right now especially as exhausted health workers are bracing for what could be an imminent 2nd wave of covert campaigners say they know money is tight right now but that existing funds should be spread out more fairly. you know i completely agree that we're in a very tricky situation at the moment and things are more precarious than they were you know you know the last 10 years we've seen a star of the cuts we've seen a lot

a lot of damage done to certain sections of the workforce in our society now but we've also seen in recent times billions of pounds being. companies and private companies and businesses you know there are priorities that we can see the n.h.s. is clearly not a priority in fact is seems so ironically or you know quite scary really the n.h.s. is being continued to be thankful continuing to be undervalued despite was saying even for. him a chance and he has focused. the british government's response to the pandemic still getting fierce scrutiny a new report says homes which suffered the most in those awful deaths were quote thrown to the wolves here's our london correspondent showed. the 1st glimpse the 1st real look into how the sector has been treated since the height of the pandemic

though it found that the government's approach was inconsistent and out worst negligent now according to make here here's the chairwoman of the cross party committee she says the national response was simply not good enough our care homes were effectively burned to the wolves and the virus has ravaged some of them putting aside the government most used the narrow window we have now to plan for a 2nd wave lives depend upon getting a response rate slow inconsistent reckless and appalling were used to describe the way in which patients were discharged into care homes without any knowledge of whether or not the patient heart of it 19 now a massive 25000 hospital patients in england and wales were moved to care homes to free up beds spaces as i say that 19 test it also found years of inattention and funding cuts by successive governments have left social care worse for wear and that the government was aware of this but failed to change its policy and then more recently boris johnson the prime minister at the start of july shifted the blame

someone on to the care homes saying that they were not doing their jobs properly we discovered too many. didn't really follow the procedures in the way that they they could have now the report has suggested some recommendations including improving the discharge process and it wants the government to respond by the end of the summer because that is a crucial time when we do expect to see a 2nd wave of the coronavirus pandemic. this is about international for a good morning for me kevin i would hear a mosque on the table we go coming up all this amongst the stories the solo stuff in south korea this really testing tempers in tokyo right now morial marking japan's dark past is reviving a decades old dispute and the prime minister is taking it personally we'll tell you why.

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as to. which your thirst for action. by good morning the unnamed source is ready to get it seems this time making headlines in the western press accusing russia of spreading disinformation over coronavirus on news websites linked to russian intelligence will across political channels cross this was a low morning was being played this time and take us through it well kevin according to the reports the russians are back at it again and they are trying as you've said to spread misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic it has been cited by multiple this as spread the story got picked up by multiple outlets but as one might say is already media tradition nowadays it's based on the accounts of

people who have preferred to stay anonymous. to american officials describe the newly declassified intelligence but would not provide the underlying reports about the activities of the g.r.u. they discussed the information on the condition of anonymity. well when it comes to the it's the new tour ears and a mysterious g r u intelligence unit according to the reports and they've picked the coronavirus as one of the most divisive stories to reportedly spread misinformation about them amplifies such messages for example like the virus had been developed and escaped an american lab and did not originate in china on the claim that has been thoroughly debunked in the months during the months of the pandemic what the report

fails to to detail though fails to delve into as to how exactly these messages in this misinformation is being out because remember how in 2016 it was all about russian bots russian fake accounts on social media well according to the report apparently the russian intelligence has gone past that and they are using what the report is saying is a trio of websites but again they are not detailing as to how articles posted on these legitimately looking websites made viral. while the specific sites may not receive much traffic american officials believe the distance from asian written by russian military intelligence is amplified sometimes intentionally sometimes unwittingly. so sometimes unwittingly it could

only mean one thing is that nobody's really trying to amplify it but people are just sharing the article but well nonetheless we have already had reaction both from the russian government and one of the websites named and shamed in the report here's what new troopers core of the spokesman for the russian president vladimir putin has had to say about this. when someone talks about jacintha nation it is an obsessive food there is no need to blame high quality in objective media work for dissent from nation when it comes to the website it's called one world by the way they've put out a statement and essentially they're saying that the claims made against their journalists and writers and contributors linking them to the russian military intelligence they've said this is essentially defamation that there's no proof that they are working with them and they are saying that they're out of it is completely independent but well as the election day draws near while it might be that robert

miller will be hired to pen a mother volume in his legal practice. not to keep you busy if you get any more in the rest of the day. correspondent he goes down off down there in central moscow though this is an interesting one next to a statue in a bar tunick garden in south korea has reignited an unresolved bitter war time with japan check this it shows a man kneeling in front of a girl who symbolizes military sex slaves euphemistically called comfort women but then from japan's imperial colonial era nearly a century ago but what's really annoying japan about it is that look closely here the man looks a little bit like prime minister shinzo out himself no stranger to inflaming the very dispute that we're talking about japan says if it is based on how it will seriously impact relations with south korea the. duce got

a good deal with it and i think such a thing is unforgivable in terms of international courtesy if the reports are accurate it will have a decisive impact on japan and south korea relations. well it's a long complicated story the bigger issue behind all of this is over reparations for the so-called comfort stations in use from $132.00 to the end of the 2nd world war back then women were lured with the offer of work only to be forced into providing sexual services to japanese imperial army soldiers it's thought around $200000.00 women were enslaved in those brothels and most came from career as well as suffering kidnap and rape some would talk shit or even killed if they resisted well attempts to try to resolve the dispute over the years have been slow they've been very painful longwinded japan agreed a treaty with south korea to try and normalize relations but was back in 165 but it took until 993 to finally apologize and admit that there were women forced into sex slavery then the 6 years ago prime minister involved in this his government tried

to reword and watered down the apology a move that was eventually abandoned come 2015 a formal apology and deal were agreed with south korea with a fund to compensate victims but it didn't go far enough for many in south korea and that deal to almost fell apart campaigners say there's still therefore a lot of unfinished business here. we will never have peace and asia until japan brings this chapter chokeholds and finally unconditionally make an apology through its legislative body with just a high the sculptor also says that she named the sculptor eternal at home and it could be mr abu it could be any man it could even be the survival of our most ugly need to do there instead of trying to change our memore

knows his shit stand up. like a man and on the word dependent and her age isis and bring justice and. culture to the survivors and the victims of this horrendous history. outdoor diners of france are going to have to start wrapping up from next year the countries buying those comfy terrace eaters to meet emissions targets roof sending a chill through business owners though say it's going to put off customers when they're needed more than ever of the covert ensuring covert. reports from perth. is it famed for its cafe culture now part of that is the ability to sit out here on a terrace whatever the weather and watch the world go by in the summer you can enjoy the sunshine but when it comes to the winter when the weather is gray matter

and very cold sitting outside is only made bearable for many by the heat is but not for much longer it seems as they were about to be axed in the plans by the french government as part of a push towards ogu enough picture for the country this is about ending practices that decision to collage of color regularities that lead to completely unjustified our consumption of energy we cannot for the mere comfort of not having to open the doors of a shop or condition street in the middle of summer when it's 30 degrees celsius and we also cannot fully heat terraces in the middle of winter in west syria to chris celsius for the mere pleasure of training once coffee outdoors while staying warm since the smoking ban was introduced a decade ago restaurants and coffee shops separate life even more on heated terraces to keep their clientele happy and now it's suffering from the impact it could be 19 they are concerned about this. lucky day

it is a hasty decision because we don't have an alternative way except putting blankets outside which will be warm enough we have a big open terrace so i doubt the blankets will be enough so it's not the best decision for us coffee shop and restaurant owners especially with the situation of kovi because we have to pay a lot for the terrace when it's cold the 1st thing the oscars that he said previously they stopped us using gas heaters now it's electric heaters so it's bad for the restaurant sector and he says that this could slice their business in. most of what would you or i cannot tell you exactly how many people won't come as a result of this sort how much money will lose but what is sure is. the customers who come during winter and use the terrorists will not be there we have a part of our terrorist which is close did but the other half is in the open air with an electric isa. environmental campaign is say there are serious grounds for

that decision by the french government studies have shown that by gas heaters in a terrace of around 75 square meters produce the same amount of c o 2 throughout the winter as the average car were going around the world the green lines here in paris the reaction to the pound has been varied but out of the people that we've spoken to those supporting the ban in the majority. i think this is good we don't have to warm up terraces during the winter it's a good move for ecology we have to make some effort i like to sit during winter on tarsus but we have to make an effort and this is the kind of measure that shows things are moving ahead. i think it is a good solution for the environment i think it is positive because we proved one she said terrorists here another one there are places like here where there are a lot of terraces isn't the pollution maybe it's more comfortable for people because they are warm on the terrace where you have the sun and that's real

solutions forces but it is not very nice to be outside in the cold during winter on a terrace and electric heater it will be too cold already it is complicated for shop owners with the current situation so if the this into the mix it will be even harder for them i think it is not the thing which makes a lot of pollution there are other things that we need to look at rather than electric heaters on a terrace the move is part of a package of measures aimed at with ceasing carbon emissions which is set to include a ban on installing coal off the royal phone this is the following this that leaves promise split between the u.c. think that it must be quick it's all it's for your future and they say that these patents are not ready. see times sunday evenings we ought to have this yet quandary well that's the way things are looking for the news room so far this we're keeping you covered from all very studious and great and kids around the world as the day progresses but for now reporting from moscow this thursday kevin i

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