seeing. wheat beer to ask. the french president heads to be rude for the 2nd time in under a month to press for political reform amid criticism that the acting again like a colonial power. also residents on italy's limb produce a protest the arrival of hundreds of new migrants for the local marriage thing the island can't cope anymore. and china unveils a new set of text export restrictions that could further challenge the sale of tech talks and business in the u.s. amid growing tensions between the 2 countries.

watching r t international coming to you live from the russian capital this monday afternoon welcome to the program. lebanon's president has appointed the country's now former ambassador to germany as its new prime minister yousaf a db is tasked with forming a government as the country still reels from the deadly blast in beirut earlier in august his appointment comes as french president emmanuel mccrone pays a mother official visit to lebanon this 2nd in just under a month 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 michel 2nd visit to lebanon in a month will it be another photo opportunity all will be able to achieve something concrete his visit taja already planned to celebrate a 100 years since the creation of the lebanese state of course it comes on the job . cloud of those explosions the bridge through the city. when he was just

a few days off the top lost his visit was equally criticized but some saying he was still acting as if france was a protectorate of lebanon on president carter's outlined what he thinks needs to happen in the country he's talked about reform and we construction 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 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 and socially those exclusions back in august exposed to the rest of the the 190 people killed thousands injured and tens of thousands of

people displaced them back on after that visit spearheaded a video conference to raise money for the stricken states and she $150000000.00 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 and humanitarian and senator emergency for a population that is deeply wounded and the political emergency if this country to hold together the risk today is the disappearance of lebanon 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. the tickle factions for microphones peace when.

we god willing was regards to naming the prime minister forming the government so we will be co-operative contributed to pulling the country out of the palace vacuum we have always rejected and always warned against woman. who has and its allies hold a majority in the parliament in lebanon also gives you a sense of how important encourage went to this particular party and these remarks suggest that it is open to dialogue what president michel is doing by including has been in these talks is something that essentially new with a western leader 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 might 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. earlier we spoke with french attorney courchesne lu who says france is grand ambitions of paving the path for reform in lebanon all bear much fruit. french president like to show the world and its population that france is still in the superpower that's why people call the. number they are compared to clean up along but for people that are against france or against the western point of view. france as. a superpower who comes and wants to say he's worked for western countries foreign countries like great britain let's say the e.u. they gonna say no it's a france trying to help. a country that has a lot of problems as usual as they always say the people of lebanon are not the

government luckily for them it's the same because they go there for they all interest not for the people of libya not you know i'm not sure but i don't think it's going to change a lot of. even arms of politics and the economy struggle. residents on the italian island of lampedusa have staged a protest against the arrival of ever more migrants locals trying to prevent newcomers from disembarking and lampedusa as mayor says the situation is unsustainable our europe correspondent peter over has the details. 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. this 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 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 says 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. 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 member 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 are tasked with taking an interest in the phenomenon of basically left alone well numbers of migrants crossing the mediterranean is 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 muttley being rescued from the waters of the mediterranean. but the

fate of the popular take target app in the u.s. still uncertain china has 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 exploited if approved by local commerce authorities as means the sale of tic-tacs u.s. business something demanded by donald trump if it wants to avoid being banned in the country could hit another stumbling block as ask a teller explains. law i am snooping on stealing if you believe the u.s. these are china's favorite hobbies china is rampant the intellectual property is real that after years of targeting our industries and stealing our intellectual property you should know there is enormous risk restore america's national security as well the theft of american jobs 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 be showing he's getting touchy about its tack sutton technologies will not be subject to export guns 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 bite daunts take talks parent company because all day rough couple of months involving volatile and legal disputes talk about of an executive order we're looking at a tick we may be bending to bare that the use of tiktaalik by all federal employees i don't mind if there's microsoft or somebody else a big company has secured 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 in the u.s. can't be abundant enough that dominance the slip sinking for a while but would be a 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 is doing at right pace but take talks about us 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 has washed its weight in gold type 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 $22.00 thoughts he $1000000.00 bill to don's the way to ownership of the outrageously successful app i knew not what gas he was also eyeing up a piece so it's possible are you were is 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 chumps teaming take top 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 beth full of lies on their identity either way it must be sad for a naing snooping and stealing up to talk show and tell us how the knot of supes was and that 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 about 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 cup. 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 are u.s. companies access to technology that they don't have still had the 2020 race to the white house is heating up with the main candidates buying desperately for black votes look at the latest poll standings after the short break.

join me every day on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics. i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back the u.s. presidential election is looming and with both the republicans and the democrats having now held their conventions the latest polls show donald trump gaining a little ground on joe biden his lead though still looks comfortable both candidates have lately been actively trying to woo the black community. but i'll have a great vice president at my side senator kamel irish she knows about all the obstacles thrown in the way of so many in our country women black women black americans south

asian americans immigrants the left out of the left behind and i have done more in 3 years for the black community than joe biden has done in 47 years. when i'm reelected the best is yet to come. by means of votes to win black votes including picking kamel harris as his running mate she's the 1st black woman on a major party's presidential ticket by now also gave an interview to rapper carney b. however some of the things he's been saying have decidedly missed the mark. you've got a moral question if you have a problem figuring out where you're from a are strong and you a black unlike the african-american community with notable exceptions the latino community is incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different settings finds approach to criminal justice has also eliminated some in the movement who want to see the police to funded his policies would see an

increased police presence and some black communities human rights activists under mubarak says this all gives the impression that buying doesn't really get black voters. 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. and they may be successful because of the fact that the 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 truck is you have a black person the bits of your black member of the working class but they also that it raises 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 a kind of understanding you know 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 dealt by the pandemic with business down 70 percent research suggests some 50000 companies are at risk of shutting up shop while those that stay open are struggling to recruit staff. we have big problems finding not only qualified but also unqualified personnel moment interview people for a place at a restaurant we find those who compare the author with 3900 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 sits 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 a low income the state gives you almost 1200 euros a month why should you work taking the same money in this welfare system is frightening and 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 and unfortunately there are ways to get resources from somewhere else some people decide not to work and do something else 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 keeping system workers and therefore lose a lot of money. at least unemployment rate is now at 9 percent one of the highest in the european union there is no i will earnings can claim that so-called citizens income up to $780.00 euros a month to qualify you have to be an e.u. citizen or have lived in the country for 10 years we've got reaction to the scheme . from locals. but i mean the lack of stuff for hotels restaurants is becoming quite critical if this is ins 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 $600.00 euros a month he would probably stay at home and receive the citizens income is. a loss we must start from the assumption that the citizens income has been badly managed and. 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 a government and people obviously take advantage of it. well some world news in brief on sunday hundreds gathered outside in johannesburg police station to demand justice for nathaniel julius the 16 year old died last week after being shot in what the police say was an exchange of fire between officers gangsters local residents though claim he was gunned down by the police. in sao

paolo people are calling for schools to be open hundreds of parents and teachers march together through the city schools were shut in response to the penned up. and there's concern in boston over mandatory shots the governor has ordered that students under the age of 30 must have them the idea is to take pressure off the health care system which is already stretched due to the pandemic. the ecuadorian government and the international monetary fund have struck a new $6500000000.00 economic relief deal over the lifeline has prompted fears of more. painful austerity measures ecuador has been in the grip of an economic crisis for years now and the i.m.f. has helped prop it up financially with loans to secure them ketone has had to slash funding for the public and healthcare sectors that critics say has left the country vulnerable during the pandemic it is among the hardest hit by coping 1000 in latin

america. i think the everyone in the entire population had this corona virus but we did not have medical help because the doctors did not come here. to the city and we had to go and look for them so people used home remedies. like. in the you can't imagine how bad the hospitals were didn't want to admit anyone else so instead they took my parents to work you'll be my father and my mother died

there. in principle receiving that sum of money for a country in crisis sounds like good news well did they believe that detail these agreements is not a free lunch for a while or it comes with a start condition not imposed by the i.m.f. which continues to promote these astra's a streak in all the other these policies are raping how book on the country's economy as well as its health care system leading to systematic by all the shut up they cannot make on social rights that the other your constitution and the national law affect. public anger in the country over austerity has seen people take to the streets even during the pen democrat students civil servants. and police officers

are among those who took part in anti-government actions. are hernandez again says the i.m.f. intervention it's reassessing. if there you really wanted to support it but the organs that got these the following we measures 1st it's probably us says the human rights of the conditions of its loans and policies that impose a cost on that must these are bent the sectors including indigenous peoples must be absolutely. second it should respect democratic processes for economic decision making agreements must be negotiated transport. and this means refraining from exerting any influence over fiscal policy decisions in the country. times may be tough in akron or but one couple there is celebrating they're just been crowned the world's oldest married couple after being together for nearly 80

years. but. i have this image of the next couple of dad and mom doing everything together from this can't use of children both to help with our homework we always were celebrating birthdays and anniversaries and of course sometimes there was an argument which is normal but never in front of us. i joined him because i was in love and because he wrote very beautifully he wrote me verses and matter.

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