dot com and in athens we're joined by alex christopher he is the director and writer for the duran dot com articulate crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i always appreciate please go to london for us alexander during the soviet union there to the major state publication was probably his best your problem obviously means truth is that it means news and it was a joke during the soviet union there is no truth in the news and there's no news in the truth i think i tend to think that's where we are in the west. where does truth meet news and does news ever have a thing to do with the truth because it is so deep weaponized politicise that it is just a commodity to be used for ideological purposes so what is the what is the purpose of i guess media can we even say free media anymore go ahead what i do we can say free media best the 1st time would make i mean in my opinion media today in the

west has become very very controlled it's become very centralized this is very small group of owners those owners very well connected within the political system and they have certain perspectives within that political system so the result is we have a dramatic all for pain eons commentry and of discussion and when it comes to facts what you tend to see especially on foreign policy issues but even increasingly on domestic policy issues is that the facts now of very very much a present in a certain way that seems to fulfill certain agendas so you will consist see that for example if a particular foreign government is on call could look with the united states the entire media will connell in and will repeat the various allegations against it without much sure. is we see the same kind of phenomena being used on specific toll

peaks within the political debates in the n.b.a. within our within western countries so the intolerance in the media for example when one wants to exceptions to the russia gate narrative hasn't withdrawn from age or backed away from it and the other thing that's happened this is one of the most extraordinary and pressing things to me is that as same time as the media has become will concentrate its head and it's a dog it's very his own agendas almost in unison he has become extremely aggressive and the language and the use that now comes out into the media is off the scale and the concept that used to be very rigidly follows a separate set separates the opinion from reports she had you know the reporting of the facts which is usually salient jacksie if and then you have the opinion pages

all the. comments on the television which are always state now you repeat the reporting of the facts and he's full of the creating it and there's hardly any you can't separate that there is not facts don't really matter i guess that's the that's one of the underlying principles of oh so far as you know i don't i'm i'm sure you saw me the full length the version of the george floyd video ok they did it was released a few days ago so it gives you a much broader picture of what was going on and it's a more complex story than it was being presented in the initially which doesn't take away from the outcome obviously and then we haven't as only generate macarius mention of the russia hoax which has been proven to be a hoax over and over again which you would know that from mainstream media is when fact they continued it to double. down on it just in different variations of it is

a hoax that will never die because it's the foundational element of their worldview when it comes to particularly in american domestic politics here so i mean even if you have of the facts as we would understand it of the 3 of us and our viewers that doesn't amount to much doesn't count for much does it. then make up stories and they lie and i think everyone understands the word fakirs now but the problem is they never correct themselves out of a problem with making mistakes as you're reporting i get it that's going to happen but they never correct themselves so they say the lie and then they distribute that line they distribute it quickly i think this is an added danger to what's happened in the media not only do you have a centralization of mainstream media you have a centralization of the distribution and it's very quick distribution and that's in the form of social media so you have the mainstream media colluding with the social

media example of the george floyd tape the truth came out we got to see the whole video everyone can make up their own mind and that's great everyone can judge it as they see fit to judge it but the may stream media would not report its. with the exception of maybe one or 2 late night hosts dr karl segues that way exactly and the social media made sure that no one was allowed to see it the big tech social media of course we go to sites like big shirts or a parlor or these alternative media and see it but the you tube the twitter is the face folks they wouldn't let anyone see that tape see that video in order to make their own judgments so i mean not only do you have the cable news and the prime time news and the big corporate news centralized the social media has also become centralized and they're working together and to me peter that's been the biggest disappointment of all of this when social media came out i actually thought

wow these guys could actually work as competitors to the mainstream news we twitter could compete with the b.b.c. facebook could compete with fox news at the end of the day though what happened they ended up working together you tube decided to scrub and get rid of alternative news outlets and favor the mainstream media news you know in other words it's just becoming another platform where you can watch cable news and on a personal note peter i go to sites like the usa today and they've written articles about the duran every now and then they have me listed they actually describe me as a russian native and that's i'm not exaggerating a russian if i wasn't born in russia i have no connection to russia of greek cypriots born in the u.s. so i mean that's that's the amount of misinformation yeah i like to throw out there nobody calls and i've been mentioned in the only fact that they get right is that i wear a boat. ok to be curious you know i can understand like for example have

a break that was it was a deeply divisive issue it was deeply political there was a lot of best interest on all sides we could look at the russia gate hoax obviously that was used as a. a weapon against donald trump and it had no foundation to it it was just a conspiracy took on its own life for political reasons but then it got worse ok i can understand partisanship i got no problem i'm partisan ok there why do you listen to the other side or other sides well what it would happen with this pandemic i don't know what to believe about it people say it's the science but most people that say it's the science have no idea what science is and they have but they have their own agenda here and i think that's really been very damaging to the body politic in the west who are particularly which i know best about but what can you what should you believe and can you have tolerance for people that believe

differently and this is even a worse place than just partisan politics well this is exactly should we go to the to the pandemic i have very clear if you surprise me about the pandemic which i have expressed very clearly in various places and they are close to what we might consider to be deals and talks here but i absolutely do not believe in suppressing people who hold alternative views to me what you few jews at is that you will undermine trust and the few do it on every single tool create you will in the end undermine trust in everything i think if we look at attitudes to the media now that is exactly what is happening in the united states in place an angel mini you discover that institutions like you know the media the big media mold is the b.b.c. m s m

b c. entities which once used to command immense trusts are no longer trusted anymore and when there is no trusts they can all be proper consensus action and of course we have to understand something which is. very important in democratic societies trust is sentient people may disagree with the chancellor but they have to accept that within the political system within the political debate on a subject like the pandemic people are actually and speak in good faith if they no longer believe that if they think that they're being manipulative and lines to untold stories in order to suit agendas which salty many people didn't say today and with cold coke was then you start to see an 8 humilation across limbs and that's exactly what's been happening on top it off to top it off to talk in the

west eloquence for that alexander here is there's something just brilliant here about you know good faith if you disagree you cannot by definition have good faith and that is a that's a one way i mean that is that is that open itself up to any kind of an interrogation you know what you know we used to think that you know and talk about in the manufacturing of truth but really this is the manufacturing of myths because you know it has no foundational basis so it's a myth can be built upon and can be manipulated all at once and we've seen this over and over again with innumerable topics here so it's really the the the manufacturer of myths and you must because if you don't you're not a good faith factor faith factor they did monetize you they d. platform you they make you disappear some of these companies go after your means of living they call after your pay pal account after your bank account i mean what

alexander said in the beginning not only do they not let you absorb the news make your own decision or speak about your opinions about the noose they go after you think don't agree with you and they go after your entire livelihood let me give you going back to the. the pandemic let me give you an example of what twitter has done twitter came out with a statement the other day and they said that the corona and any news coming out of china about the corona we did not see it as going against our terms the next day they come out with a statement saying trump's tweets about the corona violate our terms and he needs to take down that tweet. it doesn't make any sense and people see this this is the president the united states is a twitter account 606070 1000000 people fall and i don't know how many but they see this and they go what is going on something is going on with corona they're not telling us the truth they're lying to us they make people even more suspicious and

they make people doubt the media even more and it's not working in anyone's favor you know it's getting you have to still sense yourself now you have to i don't even know if i'm allowed to say corona and my law to say that i'm yes so god will bring that they believe that they can determine what truth is i mean that has been the entire experience of western civilization is the discussion about but they seem to have come to a rather easy gentlemen would only jump and you know we're going to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on some real news they were talking. op no 2 no crowd. no shots no. action to go. well.

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welcome back to crossfire were all things are considered on peter bell to remind you we're discussing some real knows.

what it was go back to london which here is a gentleman. in the last few news cycles we learned that elliot abrams is not only keeping the venezuelan desk he's been given the iran desk as well a convicted. convicted felon lied to congress and he's elevated here i wouldn't have done this story just on elliott abrams because it's very clear cut in my mind in the in the minds of people who watched these videos. and this program but at the same time we have susan rice being touted as a possible vice presidential. position in a ministration. what does this tell you that abrams is elevated and you have susan rice that has a track record of utter and complete failure on foreign policy so

what does this say because we have a never trumper elliott abrams now further in bed in the trumpet ministration and we have. a former obama official there with a track record of failure that is on track now maybe not president but maybe another position in that future administration what does that tell us about foreign policy now what does it say about the small go ahead what he says 1st rule is that there is no punishment in the united states if you will wrong on foreign policy crew volume you wall wrong in a certain way if you were wrong in favor 8 regime change in other countries and aggressive in the sequel and economic stunts for the united states if you believe intel gets you not the country this they you all right well gees even if they're

all you know no weapons of mass destruction in iraq even if your attempts to stage coups in venezuela are already complete faith even if iraq itself is a total it's unbuckled because if you look at 88 grams and you know can sue some qualities of course they will argue they come to this just specs and susan rice lou say she's a liberal humanitarian intervention is. of course any 8 grams is a neo conservative interventionist the result is exactly the same. i would all like you that the united states is actually based interests at this point it is history ours so why are we trying to shoot any pulling away from these extremely aggressive policies which have done no good. full but despite the criticism these policies coming fall what we see is that people who

advocate all this is in fact the most extreme that paul is is a groundswell the one so i susan rice on the other they're about to be promoted. right i call this the didn't is they should of american foreign policy because that you know is that very famous symptom is rather than out interagency consensus but that's exactly what it is trump has made no impact on it and it is as a as a foreign policy. during his own right i mean he hired in fire john bolton he's brought in elliott abrams and you know with some very nuance on the margins it's a it's a bush obama foreign policy and as in the end it shows that it is his role as president as animals nothing to do with steering the ship of state for the united states and i think that is really pathetic because that was one of the foundations

that he ran on as president and people voted for us i mean i think the disheartening part is that after bolton and the mistakes that trump made with bolton mcmasters and all kinds and all kinds of people and now you have abrams getting elevated but i think that's that's definitely an element of having tom pale as secretary of state as trump went to reelection i expect and i expect that tom taylor will be moving on that's what i think will happen and i think a lot will change if cantelli does move on and if if trump appoints a proper secretary or secretary of state and not a neo-con or near liberal like topsail then we may see some changes maybe a slim type of appointed a 21 but saying that you know don't you think. that we could only kind we can only hope but what why should we believe that would be it wouldn't be. i mean i agree i'm saying if. if if he appoints someone on the opposite side of top and once again i'll say like

a flame when he 1st appointed flynn and then he got completely sidetracked when what happened to flynn happened and he went down this other road of mcmasters and pompei on all these neo cons so if he gets on track in his 2nd term and he avoids listening to the swap then we may have some hope that he male point someone that will do a better job we're in the case of biden we have no hope that's my point i think with trump we do have some hope there is some hope trump hasn't gotten us into a war has the us into war he hasn't gotten the us bogged down in any major conflicts so there is some hope that if he does win a 2nd term there is a chance that pompei only and that he's done with all the russia ukraine gay stuff and he can appoint someone along the lines of the flynn type who may actually implement some change with biden i think there's absolutely 0 chance of seeing any kind of change in us foreign policy i think it will get more aggressive susan rice case in point how many times has she lived how many times have she likes the

american people or under oath i mean nothing has happened to her work a life from flynn a papadopoulos stone you see what has happened today when you know the f.b.i. has questioned them and they caught them with very vague very minor infractions so my point on all of this is with trump and why you have to vote trump is that you do have some hope that things could change with biden i think there's 0 chance you have 3 and a half years ok i mean and that means something here all right i agree trying to get us and into any new wars here but it's all a whole gambit against iran it is just a disaster for everybody concerned i mean look at that horrific explosion in beirut not for a millisecond it was aimed at maybe we should lift the sanctions against lebanon so they can. get out of this no not not at all ok if this is a trumpet ministration ok it's not an obama and it's not a problem it's apparent that it applied in ministration again let my point here

this is like r r o pilot here is not much you can do about it the swamp is all powerful and they have their own lies in the media and everyone looks out for each other and that is the basic state of american foreign policy today and make your well if we if we actually look at what has happened in doha soon a half years and we don't break even by conflict might flip it was supposed to be a super or at greenland he doesn't 3 weeks he was a hand he was prosecuting it's been decided by the justice department he was innocent after all and still he's tangled up in legal cases we had over there last year was at the beginning of this year we had colonel been talking about the interagency which the presidency in the president's should be in peach fool does he agree with this and if this is what he was sake set what we have

is a form of permanent governance in the united states acted under the current government in the united states which supposedly the elected politicians must obey or if they don't evacuate what will happen to their is what happens if lady who wasn't elected was appointed by the president all well but we saw what happened with well she case with trumps impeachment proceedings and all of these things is a very bad place for a democracy to be and consider susan rice citizen rice we've discussed her foreign policy stance this we can also look at a domestic policy and says she was heavily involved in unmasking people in the last years last weeks of the obama. administration in mali that is reason enough to disqualify. true any kind of public goal in this country because he's now going to

be vice president said i have no need of it is your 1st baking is that you know she went you know cheech because she's the patriot quoting her cheek she did everything she was the 1st resistance fighter at what she does the fact is that she's ponces the interagency consensus and this is the real power which is it seems holds is impossibly difficult to break into the jungle against you because you're facing impeachment your facing criminal proceedings your face you give to the media you come up against all of these problems what sex off the world boxes 2 for biden i mean who would you go. where to text off the world boxes for biden is what biden has boxed himself in and said i'm going to i i'm going to have a black woman as vice president and he doesn't have many choices there so you're down to come on however us and susan rice unless there's someone we don't know about but those are stresses so susan rice obviously is in the lead so aside from

the fact that she is part of the swap and the swap is very excited to get her in there for biden she checks off those boxes you know it's only stay with us i think it's. you know people know american politics and follow it you know it's a rule of thumb that almost nobody cares who the vice president is ok there is hype in the media you know it's just part part of be the the rich will but in this case enough people enough people that supported troop in 2006 again foreign policy did play a role being anti interventionist with susan rice on the ticket and it may give people a reason to say yeah i'll let it go out and vote for him again because if maybe they say this time around if we take the rice issue of the table what's. point ok i didn't get what i wanted ok that judge that you didn't work out on the supreme court but with susan rice it seems to me that's going to be that's going to rivet

the trump base to really get their act together and go out and vote and i'm a strong believer that this this election will all be about turnout go ahead ours yeah i agree with you on that i mean once again i'll go back to the fact that biden boxed himself in he doesn't have any choice and he's thinking do i put susan rice energize the trump base especially the trump base that's interested in foreign policy and international interventions and all these things or do i appoint kemal hatteras kemal harriss is not depressed choice for biden because there he's alienating all the progressives the entire progressive base so he's stuck with these 2 people doesn't have anybody else because he has to check those boxes that he himself put the ticket i mean he put those restraints on himself there one day. to pick you up if that's his set that he's going to choose from when he wins then they will check his box on the you know curation day book set him out into the past

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lebanon's one time cabinet resigns on mass following ever increasing pressure over last week's devastating blast in day words. anger erupts in the roosters people cry foul over the election in which the long term president claims he won by a landslide protesters take to the streets and more than 3000 people are arrested. today i want. to throw out suitable to some of. our brands reportedly tells the u.k. it's happy to try to help stop the increasing flow of migrants crossing the english channel but say they'll come at a price of 30000000 pounds. a

very well welcome to you you're watching r t international with me nicky erin the entire top story this hour lebanon's entire cabinet of ministers has resigned as following last week's devastating explosion in beirut mass protests have been held daily since people have been demanding accountability for the 150 plus deaths and utter destruction caused by the blast let's go live to beirut now and our correspondent laugh always paula slayer paula good to see you could you bring us up to speed on developments please. well within the last half hour the lebanese prime minister has announced his resignation we are expecting him to give a state of the nation address within the next hour and a half an here at martyrs' square which has been the focal point of mass demonstrations from saturday night. people have been arriving at a very different mood at the moment those who've been arriving has been cheering and expressing congratulations as the news breaks of the resignation of the prime

minister and indeed his entire cabinet now it's not totally unexpected these protests have been ongoing as i say since saturday calling for the resignation of the government initially we heard from the prime minister that he was willing to call for early elections as a way out of the political crisis he then announced that he stay in power for the 2 months as he brings the major political parties together but of course that was not enough for the crowds here and the anger has finally seemed to bring about some kind of change earlier there were 16 or makers who resigned they resigned under pressure and so we have been following this throughout the course of the day they have accused the government of inaction of negligence they blame them for the blast but they also blame them for the political and economic woes finds itself in what we've witnessed in the last few days has been some of the most explicit scenes of violence in recent years that has happened in this country more than 700 people

were injured and one policeman was killed take a look. at her. was that the ira was. firing. now the authorities have been blamed for excessive use of force in what is being called a judgement day protest in fact i was talking to some of the people arriving here a short time ago and they've done this a revolution to reach and it seems that not every evolution on the list. paula thank you for those day tells us that he's paula slayer live from beirut or beirut based investment banker colleges are down believes the resignations will eventually

lead to positive changes in the country. i think the majority of those that are for testing today like myself are angry. they are angry because obviously of the the magnitude of this catastrophe and they are also angry at the magnitude of the incompetence on in dealing with this that it isn't as if the government is not a check this creates an opening for you know a new manson and new dynamic which can potentially need to a a more stable and acceptable framework to run or to basically be able to undertake this huge effort ahead of us. but only official numbers of course don't give the full picture of how many lives have been changed forever it's not a tragedy for the family already for one family already dealing with that daughter's cancer they were in hospital when the blast struck the father didn't survive. forgive me if i did anything for me to carry or if i hurt you

forgive me i love you i know of you i love you i love you for 2 hours i used to tell him i love you oh you know you are you know i love you i love you these summer months have always been synonymous with joy and celebration for sue his family the birthdays of the children and husband the anniversary of their wedding all of which falls during the sonny season but this year trouble started to loom on the horizon early when her daughter was diagnosed with cancer they called me in the morning they confirmed that it's classical heart and i knew that it was lymphoma by that time gemma's immune system had been shot to pieces but hodgkin's lymphoma is not a sentence for children it's curable and doctors have been reassuring sue her husband jihad was called by the news abroad in nigeria but couldn't stay away in a crisis like this so several dozen covert tests later he came to lebanon to be

with his family we slept in the hospital the same bed the same everything me her and her gemma's hospital room was where the port explosion called the 3 of them the windows of the buildings in front of me crashing and then one by the like this. like this i didn't see if fair i didn't see my daughter i didn't see and anything but i wanted to put his head like this i felt that all smashed all all all so much that i was not sure that he was alive i saw his saw leaving his body i saw it but i didn't. i want to move into another hospital jihad died right before his daughter's eyes at only 6 gemma faces 2 battles most adults would struggle to when cancer and coping with her father's death she drew for me and around. it's circle

she she color that was red i knew it's her dead. and it was full of blood sue his heart breaks when she blames herself for letting her daughter witness all that and letting down her son by promising that his father would be at his birthday which is this week i promised my son that are me and his they're going to be on his birthday and i broke this promise and everyone's going with happy birthday for my son it's his birthday on the 30th of august. so. i ask sue her if she wants to take a break from the interview she refuses adamantly there's just so much she feels she didn't tell her husband enough suhas biggest concern now is her daughter processing

their loss gemma seems to be protecting her mother by not sharing her feelings she told them who was listening he heard her and i prefer can i not i'm not i'm not able to give details because they are killing me from inside me. so can you imagine herself can you imagine the images in her brave passing whenever she closes her eyes. suah finds redemption and relief in family pictures now as she relives the fondest of memories this is how we used to sleep playing our head on each other because you know whenever i put my head on his saw that i feel secured even when he's around i don't go so far marcus i don't do anything for the house to fix care of everything everything here's a think

a lot of clothes from my shoulder now this is the last photo of their family together she shows it to me as i'm sitting on the very couch where it was taken this story has been gaining traction across me jean the arabic world and we were the 1st she so kindly let in as she struggles to deal with the pain of the loss in the home she herself can face yet how am i able to come back to this house. of. her. oh am i supposed to put my ribs on this do know and this and i know it is for ever is about. oh was waiting for him just to put to hug me to put his arms to feel secure how. what i'm going to. give when the 3rd when both men lose grows there's some mean for not removing his clothes from the house i'm not going to remove them but sue her

realizes that her life is not over she tells me its whole life mission now to eliminate the shortage of cancer medicine for lebanese children even with the mask on i can see her smiling when she talks about her children those she ordered them frozen. unicorn because she learned about this one is very special i told her you see this is my hair because when you're going to take this medication your hair is going to fall down you're going to lose your hair so what i can do or this is my hair i'm going to give it to you so you would wear to cater on i'm going to make her happy i would do whatever she wants the smiling her and her brother it is done of reporting from lebanon r.t. . being a large scale protests in belarus with thousands arrested after long time president alexander lukashenko claimed he'd won a landslide victory in the weekend's election when his main rival is formally

lodged a complaint to the election commission claiming fraud many european politicians have raised concerns over the right result and the country's handling of the protests harassment and violent repression of peaceful protesters has no place near fundamental rights and belarus must be respected i can the belorussian 30 eastern sure that the votes and yesterday selection are counted and published accurately violence against protesters is not the answer freedom of speech freedom of assembly basic human rights must be upheld. it is clear that the presidential election did not reach minimum standards for democratic elections that is not acceptable. around 3000 people were detained nationwide on election day including a number of news crews still including some foreign ones on monday people could be sitting trying to deliver toilet paper and other necessities to detain journalists

sunday's protests or fierce clashes with police by what it says and other accounts claimed many people were beaten by police while covering the un west. to be i want but. the truth about suitable yeah he sent me. so whatever means good steady supply of the cats the batteries the scene its

largest protests in the last 10 years he's due at 10 pm people began to gather near the hear a city ordinance for the parking lot by security. offices then began to market towns and cities censorship pushing back against the 1st time in history balanced special crowd control measures including stun grenades were used some eyewitnesses claim it's all rubber bullets being fired. on me while processes are begun to gather outside the bella russian embassy in moscow but demanding the immediate release of detained russian journalists daniel hawkins reports from outside the embassy. hundreds of people yesterday stayed at the embassy to show their indignation at an election they feel was rigged out of election with a few live votes were taken away that was one of the compared what was happening but. throughout the night security forces broke up protests of thousands tens of thousands probably around the whole country with people marching through the streets building barricades some of them chanting the police not to use violence

against protesters those pelting them with bottles now security forces were very quick to respond with stun grenades with tear gas water cannons. rubber bullets the reports of multiple injuries images of bloodied and bruised protesters around the world stephen even though there were internet blackout some problems with communications across the country the protests went beyond borders there were protests at the better russian embassies in kiev and warsaw even as far afield as televisa as well.

as campaign was widely criticized the home and abroad for the arrest and detention of journalists position that it's activists as well. himself said he didn't expect these elections to be water broken voice that i should leave for your flair for the way they've been handled by the russian authorities though have opened probes into these protests saying that the rioters as they call them could face between the age of 15 years in jail. himself saying those who took to the streets. to destabilize the country will face the consequences this is. what you do in the if you're going to go against our country or even in the smallest way try to plunge the country into chaos and destabilize it you will receive an immediate response from the power for the moment or the process seems to have died down what's going to happen to later tonight we can't tell but suffered a lot of the hoffs as we said the main opposition now that it has already said

she's going to fight these results in court she says she doesn't recognize them and she's calling on police and security forces not to use violence against protesters to stand down the report said that that has happened or have happened last night in some cities in belarus as well whatever the result was going to be tonight it was clear that this would be some sort of turning point for domestic politics in belarus. one of the k. opposition politicians who was barred from running accused of retaining power by force yes. it's clear that this has nothing to do with normal exit polls these are just numbers off the top of someone's head the real results are exactly the opposite we support what citizens are doing because their votes have been stolen lucas shank has started this campaign with a brutal violation of the constitution. that is now seizing power by force he is the one who is carrying out a coup every. journalist brian mcdonald believes the ferocity of these protests is

unusual for the country. awful vines last night including reporters in minsk certainly not something you'd expect to see in europe but in this day and age far more brutal than anything seen and you know paris or moscow or london in recent years and you know if anybody knows better rooster has been there so i have it it's a very very time country normally it's not known for protests i mean i'm sure our viewers could serve your viewers could say that if you never heard of the big protest of the floor certainly not the last decade anyway. you know what minsk itself is a very tranquil very well run city this is out of character for better russians they're not violent people they certainly would only protest on what they would see as something of last resort and you know. could be violent against night very much so it could be more violent than last night it depends on how do you respond it depends on how far the protesters are willing to go it depends on and look a lot of factors you know. blaming outsiders for stoking protests he blamed in

russia for supporting the opposition a couple of weeks ago now he's blaming the polish the czechs the british i mean you know he didn't say he was alleging that people working for the state department had been found in minsk and kicked out a couple of weeks ago russian mercenaries were arrested q is that trying to forment unrest in the country i mean it is a pretty you know he's certain to you know he's taking a white view on who is posting meddling in this country. already high tensions between china and the west have been strained further that's off the washington's top health official paid a visit to taiwan and the u.s. health secretary alex aids are taiwan's president this is the highest ranking visit all the u.s. official to the island since the diplomatic relations were cut back in 1979 days are praise taiwan's handling of the global pandemic and actually to the. democratic

nature of taiwan for far as. the particular focus of both my discussions with president side and of our trip is highlighting taiwan's success on health in combating covert 19 and cooperating with the united states to prevent detect and respond to health threats. china has these taiwan as one of its provinces has already objected to the visit but chinese foreign ministry demanded the white house stop any official interactions with taiwan that ministration. you could only under . draw the one china principle is the political basis of bilateral relations because of what the united states has done has seriously violated its commitment on the taiwan issue sort of that lot but to pack a long long way from both university believes china will wait for the u.s. election before making any major moves. on the one hand i think the united states

is consistent in building the bridges of taiwan and also trying to empower taiwan to join the international organizations and extent it's diplomatic richest nations so i think this is very clear and consistent with the u.s. corsi not on the other hand i'm not sure if the has successfully. beijing at the moment because actually i believe the chinese authorities are looking across the deciduous in the u.s. homeland because at 19 has just heat 5 media increases. the euro is expected to put. all dark back to normality but mr trauma's crop is ticking he has only got 3 more months to go before he says we election and his chances for him came as a result the interests of beijing tool a bit and see the see what will happen and approaching this the lecture and see

what the next administration will cause the 2 is china and taiwan. 38000000 pounds that's the price france is reportedly demanding to up its efforts to stop migrants trying to reach the u.k. but nears has not gone down well in downing street which is that to be drawing up plans to deploy the navy to help with the reports from paris. well the clash over migrants between the u.k. and france seems to be escalating and that comes as there has been in recent arrivals from from the u.k. which has put the 2 countries holds the number of illegal crossings is appalling and unacceptably high the figures are shameful france and other e.u. states are safe countries genuine refugees should claim asylum there not reach their lifes and break the law by coming to the u.k.

france is apparently demanding some. pounds from the u.k. government before it says it will do you with the issue of these illegal crossings properly on the aids now that's left apparently westminster pretty scathing this shut down those proposal saying it won't hand any will cash and less it has a hand in how the money is spent now there are also accusations that paris is trying to milk the u.k. all while these number of illegal crossings are increasing day by day let's have a look at some of the figures now so just a few days ago on august 6th 235 people made it across from france to the shoes of england now in 2020 so far more than 4000 people have succeeded in making that crossing that's double the number in 2900. priests that we've seen now french patrols are trying to stop

some of those migrants leaving french coastal shores and we know that the french interior minister has sort of back saying you since january its operations have stopped 5 times as many people as they did in 2019 in the same period but with the u.k. it's just north and so much so you can sector pretty big. has announced a new appointment this is the appointment of contest dining channels right command of this somebody who is going to be monitoring all the agencies that watch the english channel for things like illegal migration somebody who should be able to sort the problem out and the u.k. government is even suggested that it may have to use its own maritime assets to deal with this we determined to stop this illegal reach into receipt for humanitarian reasons as much as anything else we are talking to our french

counterparts and we in order to find a solution using maritime assets as they call it to try and return votes to france trying to prevent people from leaving france in the 1st place while talks between the 2 countries are due to continue this week but the clock he is taking up the moment the u.k. has the right and the doctor who's to said that the asylum seekers back to front but that will end at the end of the break that transition period which will finish in december 2020 so only a few months away that's of course unless the 2 countries reach a new deal something at the moment that seems highly unlikely given that the 2 countries are not seeing eye to eye on this issue. the main lockdowns have varied from country to country with some of the world's poorest facing the toughest restrictions documentary makers redfish have been following migrants in west africa here's some of what they found. i'll bet i've been there for months on.

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sunscreens you've put me in every class i don't know you have you get there. any anything so grandma going to come to. the north and. from down at the mall or another. i miss when i want to it. is making me crazy. face all shootings in new york are up by nearly 2 thirds compared to a year ago this month that the city's police budget is being slashed under pressure from black lives massive protests but surveys suggest even black americans don't

think it's a good idea to have more than has the details. across the country many cities have cut the number of police officers and reduce the funding for police departments in response to the explosive mass movement of protests against police brutality. you know. all. things. oddly polls show that this is not exactly what the public wants 81 percent of black americans say they want the police to spend the same amount of time that they

already do in their communities or more this may be influenced by the overall breakdown in law and order gun violence in new york city has risen by a 177 percent this to y. and at the same time as a rise in crime is taking place homelessness is also on the rise making many locals very disturbed it's not the city that they used to be before march you have to take certain precautions judge me out to be in fear of these men doesn't mean it all these men know predatory but a lot of them they will start self pleasure writing them show off still pass out on the street from k. to smoking crack shooting when i haven't seen anything to do with there have been some birders in the neighborhood that i that doesn't make me feel that a woman was attacked in my building at that day and it was only 10 o'clock at night so i haven't seen anything but if i did it would certainly bother me but it may be just because these people should be taken care of and obviously the rest of us should not be if you know that that's a concern for somebody who's not in control of himself. causing trouble if you have

men with drug problems why would you put them into. a place where there is no she curator whatsoever to make sure that they don't keep feeding their habit the rise in crime and homelessness has got many new yorkers fearing this could be a return to the old new york of the seventy's and eighty's many wealthy folks are packing up and leaving governor andrew cuomo is urging them to change their minds begging wealthy folks to stay even offering to come to dinner you gotta come back when you come back we'll go to dinner buy a drink come over i'll cook but despite his pleading he admits new york city is getting the last say we're trying to get them to come back. to control we're going to make progress helping the homeless we're going to clean up the graffiti we're going to fix these problems of rising crime homelessness and violence on the streets of new york are something that most average new yorkers can't afford to

just pack up and run away from it governor andrew cuomo has given attention to these problems that affect lower income new yorkers then perhaps the same problems that are now driving the wealthy folks away wouldn't have risen so dramatically up and artsy new york. thanks to using on c international we're back in 30 minutes with the latest. during this year we talk about all those crazy problems out there and then during the summer we hit you with solutions that's right so lucian's and today we're going to be talking with. knows of calling floor dot com you can.