threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only posts really loses i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. presence of heads to reach for the 2nd time in less than a month to press for political reform criticism from says acting again like a colonial power. president on at least. protest the arrival of hundreds of new migrants with the locals saying the island simply can't cope anymore. and china. export restrictions that could further challenge. business in the u.s. and the growing tensions between the 2 countries.

this is r t international. french president emmanuel micron is paying another official visit to lebanon his 2nd time there in just under a month will be holding talks with officials in beirut as the capital tries to recover from the deadly poor blast at the start of august the french leaders attempts to push for reforms in lebanon to be met with criticism and accusations of interference from the do pinsky picks up the story. well this is president 2nd visit to lebanon in a month will it be another photo opportunity all will be able to achieve something concrete his visit hard already planning to celebrate a 100 years since the creation of the lebanese state of course it comes under the cloud of those explosions that through this city even when he was just

a few days lost his visit was equally. criticized by some saying he was still acting as if france was a protectorate of lebanon on the president. he thinks needs to happen in the country he's talking about reform and reconstruction he says an interim. 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 is the worst of the country if we let lebanon 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 that lebanon has had issues politically economically socially those explosions back in august exposed that the rest of the the 190 people killed thousands injured and tens of thousands of people displaced

after that visit spearheaded a video conference to raise money for the stricken states and she 150000000 pledged from says foreign minister has said that 8 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 if we want this country to hold together the risk today is the disappearance of lebannon politics in there but 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 the house because just welcome from some political factions for. one national.

we are god willing with regards to name the prime minister forming the government so we will be co-operative and contribute 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 it gives you a sense of how. we important that encouragement is from this particular party and these remarks suggest that it is open to dialogue what president michel is doing by cleaving has been in his talks is something that essentially new with a western leader has done that is openly tool 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 on 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 and interfering in the internal politics of the country. we spoke with french attorney who says the france is ground paving the path for reform. 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 you'll create your states france as. a superpower who comes and wants to say he's worked for western countries foreign countries like great britain let's. say no it's 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.

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 of. even ones of quality and the economy struggling. residents on the italian island of lampedusa have staged a protest against the rival of the more migrants locals trying to prevent incomes from disembarking and produces mess as the situation simply unsustainable our europe correspondent peter oliver has the story. 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. 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 well as we heard from the mayor 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 we just want 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 land but is the sort of enough all on saturday around 50

people were processed by the italian coast guard those migrants have been rescued from the mediterranean sea by the boat the luis michel. is the vessel it's funded financed by the street artist banksy skip it by the german captain klempner now she is credited with rescuing at least a 1000 people from the mediterranean sea between 20112070. but she was also charged with colluding with people smugglers by the authorities in italy and 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 saying 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 saying though is the

situation in lampedusa is really our breaking point. the mayor of the tiny mediterranean island has said he fails abundant and the island feels abandoned by both the governments of italy and the european union will give them a sort of 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

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 we need to face up to it in a radical way and 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 have basically left it alone well numbers of migrants crossing the mediterranean are 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 matley being rescued from the waters of the mediterranean. the

fate of the populace to talk out in the united states still uncertain china's introduced a new set of restrictions on its tech exports from now on such technologies as content recommendation speech modeling and voice recognition can only be exported if approved by local commerce or thora he's not means that the sale of tick tocks u.s. business something demanded by donald trump if it wants to avoid being banned could hit another stumbling block skip taylor has the story. line snooping and stealing if you believe the u.s. 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 the theft of american germs 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 won't be doing a 15 2nd synchronized jig to celebrate this news byte daunts take talks parent company because all day rough couple of months involving volume 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 tiktaalik 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 via the chinese company has to sell off its u.s. operations because donald trump said so because there is 100000000 users new u.s. company and beyond into that dominance the slip sinking free wild mess and given its basically a direct line to millions of young people right for odds 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 us tech giants chomping at the bit i needed 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 willing to take out

a room at $20.00 to $30000000.00 bill dollars the way to ownership of the outrageously successful app and you know what gas is also eyeing up a piece of this pot are yours microsoft or somebody else or it was the chinese what what the prices 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 still 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 it does have a lot of suit says and i 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 and 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. on the 2020 race to the white house is heating up with the main candidates find desperately for black votes will be looking at the latest poll standings after this break.

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the don't states presidential election is looming and with both the republicans and democrats having now held their conventions their latest polls show double trouble gaining a little ground on joe biden whose lead though does still look comfortable both candidates also have lately been actively trying to woo the black community but all have a great vice president that my size. senator kamel 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 want i'm reelected the best is yet to come forward. to when black vote sing please picking couple of horus as his running mate he's the 1st black woman on the major parties presidential ticket biden also gave an interview to the wrap up being some of the things that he's been saying decidedly missed the mark you know moral question vied so 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 the buds approach to criminal justice has also alienated some in the bill a movement to want to see the police defunded his policies would see an increased

police presence in some black communities human rights activist john mobarak says that the soul gives the impression biden doesn't really get blankets. 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 they may be successful because of the fact that other democrats don't appear to be offering in the dating different than the campaign that they invent in 2060 minute reason is that to support a draw if you have a black person the bits of your black member of the working class but they also the minute reason was 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 that he has some kind of understanding of what blake people need in particular the black working class is never reflected in his policy. 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 some 50000 companies are risk of shutting up shop while those that stay open are struggling to retrieve 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 of 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 euro 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 euro a month why should you work taking the same money in 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 on that oil and 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 in us one of the highest levels in the european union those with no or little earnings can claim a so-called citizens income of $2780.00 euros a month to qualify though you have to be an e.u. citizen or lived in the country for 10 years we've got reaction to the scheme from locals. but i might think 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 exploited 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. only a couple in ecuador is celebrating being crowned the world's oldest married couple after being together for nearly 80 years and the centennials have one huge family to celebrate that.

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hello and welcome to cross top where all things are considered on people a bell economics is called the dismal science for a reason it is often imprecise and almost always open to seeing what you want to see in many ways economics remains in our however the economic situation sets us all now is much more than about our it's about the way we will live for the foreseeable future are we witnessing a recovery if so what kind of. discussing the economy and more i'm joined by my guest daniela de martino booth she is an daoist she is the c.e.o. and chief strategist for quill intelligence a research and a linux firm she is also be author of fed up an insider's take on why the federal

reserve is bad for america as well as they call mr bloomberg view and in new york we cross to marshall are actually is a research associate for the levy institute at our college and contributor to independent media institute as well was a member of america compass or a newly established think tank formed to restore an economic consensus that into sizes the importance of family community and industry to the nation's liberty and prosperity crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in if you don't want and i always appreciate ok let me go to our national 1st in new york last week we came out with a new job numbers and it was quite surprising for a lot of people that was a row of jobs growth approximately over 2000000 though there seems to be some all of the issues now which used interesting in itself. which gives people a reason to believe that there is some kind of recovery and i would really would

like in this program to be politicized that i don't want to talk about who whose advantage it is ok because that is turned into a political football and we may be dealing with something that is it came to the great depression so i think we have to take it very seriously so marshall i mean we in some kind of recovery or is it too early to same were recovery in some sectors and not others kind of you know unpack it for us you know without getting too political the look that the idea is if you if you go if you if you stop a car you know you're going 100 miles an hour then you stop a card and it goes to 0 and then you break celebrate and it goes 20 miles an hour. of course you know the car is moving again and. of course that's progress but you are still far from seeing that automobile move operated at maximum efficiency so leaving aside this has to.