i'll see you then. french president emmanuel from head to beirut for the 2nd time in under a month to press for political reform but this isn't france he's acting again like a colonial power. president. protest the arrival of hundreds of new migrants with the local mayor saying that the location just can't cope anymore. china bells a new set of tech export restrictions that could further challenge business in the u.s. the growing tensions between the 2 countries. good

morning thanks for joining us this is r.t. and. french president paying another official visit to lebanon on his 2nd in just under a month will be holding talks with officials in beirut as the capital tries to recover from the deadly port blast at the start of august but the french leaders attempts to push for reforms in lebanon have been met with criticism and accusations of interference. picks up the story. well this is president 2nd visit to lebanon in a month will it be another photo opportunity or will he be able to achieve something concrete his visit hard already to celebrate 100 years since the creation of the lebanese state of course it comes under the cloud of those explosions that through this city. when he was just a few days lost his visit was equally. criticized some saying he was still

acting as if france was a protectorate of lebanon now president he thinks needs to happen in the country and he's talked about reform and reconstruction he says an interim government needs to be put in place that needs to be an audit of the country's central bank and he's called for fresh elections otherwise he she is the worst of the country if we don't go and if we somehow leave it in the hands of the depravity of regional power was it will be civil war as well as the defeat of what is the very identity of lebanon now lebanon has had issues politically economically and socially those exclusions back in august exposed to the rest of the with a $190.00 people killed thousands injured and tens of thousands of people displaced

after that visit spearheaded a video conference to raise money for the stricken state with some 2 $150000000.00 euros being pledged but front says foreign minister has said that 8 will come only with strings attached we will not sign a blank check for a government that does not implement reforms that everyone knows are needed everyone knows what has to be dealt with the humanitarian and senator emergency for a population that is deeply wounded and the political emergency on this country to hold together the risks today is the disappearance of lebanon politics in. no one is a political minefield this is a country that has political representation for the 18 different sex. in the country so consensus between those is sometimes no easy task however there has been a cautious welcome from some political factions for much. when. we god willing with regards to naming the prime minister forming the government we

will be co-operative contributed to pulling the country out of the power vacuum we have always rejected and always warned against. hezbollah and its allies hold a majority in the parliament in lebanon also gives you a sense of how important that encouraged this particular party and these remarks suggest that it is open to dialogue what president michel is doing by including has in his talks is something that essentially new where the west has done that is open to the party politics in lebanon is a moveable feast though so if it seems that france is demanding too much or if it's taking too much of the role as a previous colonial power these talks could quickly. present not go on has a very difficult path to tread it is a thin line between being seen to be in lebanon and helping the lebanese people and that interfering in the internal politics of the country. we spoke french attorney

colonel shanley who says the front sees ground of paving the path for reform in lebanon will not much fruit. french presidents like to show the world and its population that france is still a superpower that's why people call the. number they are compared to not belong but for people that are against france are against the western point of view the gun and discreet you say france as. a superpower who comes and wants to see heath's work for western countries foreign countries like great britain let's you gonna say no it's a france trying to help. a country that has a lot of problems as usual as we say the people of lebanon and not the government look at them while it's the same because they go there for a day on interest and not for the people of lebanon i'm not sure but i don't think

it's going to change a lot that. even on the politic and economic struggle. residents on the italian island of lampedusa have staged a protest against the arrival of yet more migrants locals even trying to prevent new comes from disembarking producers mayer says the situation there is now unsustainable to get an update from our correspondent based in berlin peter all of us a little live on the light good morning ping to take us through what is the situation right now on lampedusa. well local government officials in lampedusa are saying the island can cope no more with the sheer number of people that are arriving on their shores in fact the mayor of lampedusa spoke to r.t. saying this he wants to see a strike a general strike on the island to try and draw attention to what's going on in a situation he describes as overloaded. and as you go through.

the situation in lampedusa is disastrous in the sense that we have a full reception center in addition to the norm because we have 1260 people and then tonight there was a landing of 300 $67.00 more people who can no longer be taken in here they've been brought to a facility made available by the church we always carry out our job even with the total indifference of the italian government but here the problem is objective we're not in a position to host more people. but as we heard from the bear there in the early hours of sunday morning around 370 people arrived in the port of lampedusa on board a fishing boat now they received an angry reception from locals. here we're here for peace just when the legal migrants to go back because we are tired to night long produce a thorough enough. we are not understanding anything here in one producer we are

all dying here the migrants aren't leaving because they are left alone we are all together in this tonight lampedusa sort of enough. well on saturday around 50 people were processed by the italian coast guard those migrants had been rescued from the mediterranean sea by the boat the luis michel that is the vessel it's funded financed by the street artist banksy it skip it by the german captain. she is credited with rescuing least a 1000 people from the mediterranean sea between 20112017 but she was also charged with colluding with people smugglers by the authorities in italy in 2019 charges that she strongly denies however you look at the situation in the mediterranean though regarding migrants it doesn't look good we're seeing calls from the united nations and n.g.o.s operating in the area for the european union to do more and for

membership states to share the burden of migrants that are currently arriving on the shores of lampedusa other italian islands what we are seeing though is the situation in lampedusa is really breaking point. the mayor of the tiny mediterranean island has said he feels abandoned and the island feels abandoned by both the governments of italy and the european union.

is that before i say that nothing has been done to solve the problem of migrants because in italy we speak only and exclusively from the point of view of differing factions but this moment is more of an electoral campaign than a solution to the problem we have 2 factions one that shouts yes and the other that shouts no but they never set out on paper how to solve the problem and therefore the problem both in easily and in europe is very serious or we need to face up to it in a radical way or will continue to witness everything that is happening on the island i don't understand why transfers are not carried out with military ships what are these military ships for given that italy is not at war with anyone europe has done nothing for lampedusa on the problem of migrants no one listens and there is a deafening silence from the european and italian institutions even those who a task with taking an interest in the phenomenon of basically left alone. well numbers of migrants crossing the mediterranean continuing steadily it's

a perilous crossing at the best of times as we head in to the autumn and winter months it's only going to become more and more dangerous and require more and more people to meet me being rescued from the waters of the mediterranean he told it with a live report for us thank you. moving on with the fate of the popular talk app in the united states still uncertain china's introduced a new set of restrictions on tech exports from now on such technologies as content recommendation speech modeling and voice recognition they can only be exported if approved by local commerce or thirty's and that means the sale of tick tocks u.s. business something demanded by donald trump if it wants to avoid being banned could hit yet another stumbling block askew teller explains lying snooping and stealing if you believe the us these are china's favorite hobbies china is rampant their

intellectual property is real that after years of targeting our industries and stealing our intellectual property you should know there is enormous risk risk to america's national security as well their theft of american and wealth. has come to an end and deny the chinese communist party access to the private information that belongs to america but in a twist only 2020 could provide it's no beijing he's getting touchy about its tack such an technologies will not be subject to export bans or restrictions meaning they have to be green that by the chinese government someone who would be doing a 15 2nd synchronized jig to celebrate this news byte daunts take talks parent company because all day rough couple of months involved a volatile in legal disputes talk about of an executive order we're looking at a tech stock we may be betting big to bear that the use of tech talk by all federal

employees i don't mind if there's microsoft or somebody else a big company the security company very very american company by the chinese company has to sell off its u.s. operations because donald trump said so on because there's 100000000 users new u.s. company bond into that dominance of the lip sinking free wild mess and given it's basically a direct line to millions of young people right for our ads research and data collection which don't worry is totally acceptable what america not the chinese communist party staring at right facebook take talks about u.s. tech giants chomping at the bit i mean who wouldn't want to piece of this pie.

bizarre as it may seem right that is a gold mine and for some it really is whilst it's weight in gold. take juggernauts microsoft and oracle said to be leading the race in a potential deal i don't want him to take out a room at $20.00 to $30000000.00 below $2.00 the way to ownership of the outrageously successful app and you know a gas is also eyeing up a piece of this pot of yours microsoft or somebody else or it was the chinese what what the price is the united states could should get a very large percentage of that prize and we think we deserve to have a big percentage of that price coming to america coming to the treasury while chomps teaming take talk treasury may not be such a sure thing if i don't find it still roadblocks by beijing's new regulations even

truman ties teenagers from new york to california straight to the former as their identity either way it must be sad for a naing snooping and stealing app to talk sure how the knot of soup says and the willing to splash all kinds of casts to get it into bad you know there are many laws that are that have already been passed and so several more there are that are working their way through congress and certainly will be signed by the president that are banning chinese apps and chinese tech products but i think in one sense china wants to get ahead of that it's embarrassing and so you know by passing their own ban on cells. it's a way of regaining some of their national face what we're seeing now from the chinese side might prevent tech talk from selling to an american company like microsoft or wal-mart they see this as an attempt by the u.s. to basically force a fire sale of cutting edge attack that undercuts the value of the chinese

companies but also gives chinese our u.s. companies access to technology that they don't have. now the 2020 ranks through the white house is heating up with the main candidates find desperately for black votes we'll look at the latest poll standings after this break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk.

seemed wrong. just don't. get to shape out. and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back the united states presidential election is looming and with both republicans and democrats having now held their conventions the latest polls show gaining a little ground on joe biden who's still looks comfortable for both candidates have

also lately been actively trying to woo the black community. have a great vice president that marseilles. senator carmel iris she knows about all the obstacles thrown in the way of so many in our country women black women black americans south asian americans government grants the left down to the left behind and i have done more in 3 years for the black community then joe biden has done in 47 years you would know what i'm reelected the best is yet to come forward by the women black votes including picking include picking kubla harris as his running mate she's the 1st black woman on a major party presidential ticket biden also gave an interview to the rapper but some of the things that he's been saying well they have decided to leave mr monk you've got a moral question vide showing if you have a problem figuring out where you're from mere trump and you're

a black unlike the african-american community with notable exceptions the latino community is incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things bud's approach to criminal justice has also alienated some in the b.l.m. the mentee want to see the police defunded his policies and see an increased police presence in some communities human rights activist joe mubarak says this all gives the impression biden doesn't really get blank focus. it was quite clear that the. troll forces. targeting black voters they believe that some sectors of the black population is in fact in play that is that they can be persuaded to support the downtrodden and it may be successful because of the fact that other democrats don't appear to be offering anything different than the

campaign that they invent is in 2060 minute reasons that to support a draw if you have a black person the bits of you like a member of the working class but they also made it resources that use give you a vote to the democrats if you are a black person and in particular a member of the black working class so you know this notion that by and understand is black folks he has some kind of understanding of what blake people need in particular the black working class is never reflected in his policies. and his positions over the course of his 47 years in congress. italy's tourism industry is reeling from the blow it's been dubbed by the pandemic with business down 70 percent research suggests them 50000 companies are at risk of shutting up shop while those to stay open

a struggling to recruit stuff. we have big problems finding not only qualified but also unqualified personnel when we interview people for a place at our restaurant we find those who compare the author with the 780 euro citizens income despite us proposing them a permanent or fixed term contract nobody in our sector wants to exploit workers but when we offer a contract from 802-1200 they tell us they prefer to stay at home and the government with these subsidies is creating a system of people who sit on the couch and do nothing all day people who don't want to work because they get the same money if you have 2 children and the low income the state gives you almost 1200 euros a month why should you work taking the same money this welfare system is frightening i have employees in my shop who tell me why don't you fire me so i work illegally and get 2 years of benefits there are people who now come to have luxury

dinners and pay for them with the subsidy card i can tell you that we are really mad it has become a credit card donated by the state and loaded every month that oil unfortunately there are ways to get resources from somewhere else some people decide not to work and do something else and now hotel sector went into crisis to find people who want to work and i'm talking not only about professionals but also about those who just start working i believe citizens' income must be completely reviewed it shouldn't be about passive support the truthers about making people work this summer many hotels have opened without customers yet keeping this thing workers and therefore lose a lot of money. at least unemployment rate is now 9 percent that's one of the highest in the european union those with no or little earnings can claim a so-called citizens income that's up to $790.00 euros a month in order to qualify you have to be an e.u.

citizen or lived in the country for 10 years you've got reaction to. this came from locals. but i mean the lack of stuff for hotels restaurants is becoming quite critical decisions income is creating many problems many people prefer to take the money stayed home and don't work many people also take the money while not actually needing it. it's clear that if restaurants or other companies believe that they can exploit workers then i disagree because it's clear that if a person has to grow for 12 hours and earn $600.00 euros a month he would probably stay at home and receive the citizens income. a loss we must start from the assumption that the citizens income has been badly managed in italy in germany they certainly manage the better. because these people are comfortable staying at home and earning this free salary while there are people who just want to work i believe the problem was created by our government and people obviously take advantage of it. after the defeat of islamic state over

2 years ago thousands of wives and children of killed or imprisoned terrorist fighters were left at able to return home and you are to documentary looks at what these families have gone through and how russian and international human rights groups have been trying to repatriate them you can watch the film here on r.t. throughout the day for now here's a preview. god has to. dance before not. you mustachios sit up and say you. know what you. can judge the tools. like teachers or the wizard i need some sleep but a close up show too much else to. eat.

them by the. door push each. moment was. a jew in the state of the war since 2017 the human rights organization object has helped bring more than 200 russian women and children back from syria and iraq.

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a very special edition when we're joined by one of the great philosophers of our time professor cornell west he joins me now from princeton in new jersey cornell thanks so much for coming on last time i spoke to earlier in the week there was a hurricane shades of climate change then we had the catastrophe in beirut i mean what i want to 1st of all your out here no indeed the 1st i just want to. listen you. need indeed while we are thoughts when you heard about what happened in the middle east in beirut where normally you often spoken about war crimes this it's open to question what happened but what if what if you thought about those terrible images well let me look once again.