i'm sure. this is a disaster for the migrants who aren't leaving because they're left alone. enough presidents. protest over the arrival of. the local saying. nothing for. no one listens and there's a deafening silence from the europeans and. also ahead on the program. new export restrictions that could prevent. business in the u.s.

. turned into a bidding war for the popular. visits and. to press for political reform and the. power. just after 11 at night in nairobi in helsinki and here in moscow the last day of august 2020 welcome to our international my names you know me. residents of have staged a protest against the arrival of new migrants their officials on the southern italian island state that the situation is on sustainable and some locals are taking matters into their own hands by trying to stop the newcomers from

disembarking. think about what you wanted to calibrate we don't understand what's going on here in london do so this is a disaster for us the migrants aren't leaving because they're left alone we're all in this together 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 illegal migrants to go back because we're fed up tonight when produce assess enough while local government officials and 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 367 more people who can no longer be taken here they've been brought to a facility made available by the church we always carry out our job with the total indifference of the italian government but here the problem is objective we not in a position to host more people 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 clem. she is credited with rescuing at least a 1000 people from the mediterranean sea between 20112017 but she was also charged with colluding with people smile. by the authorities and it's only 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 fails abundant and the island feels abandoned by both the governments of italy and the european union. is sort of why 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. 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 matley being rescued from the waters of the mediterranean in additional point 2 of this story the latest surge in sea crossings to italy from north africa primarily comes 5 years after a landmark speech by german chancellor angela merkel on this exact date in 2015 she responded to concerns over the influx of migrants to europe by saying this. if you are going to enforce this then i say very simply germany is a strong country the attitude with which we approach these things must be we have achieved so much we can do it we can do it and when something stands in our way it

has to be overcome it has to be worked on. well according to official data almost 5000000 people have applied for asylum in the e.u. in the past 5 years italy france sweden and germany have taken in the largest numbers officially germany has accepted more asylum seekers than any other nation in the past decade according to the un refugee agency we spoke with petter bistrot from the alternative for germany party he believes the in floor of migrants have been devastating for the country. everybody knows that the policy wasn't success if the target was not to destroy the german society we are facing a very massive rise of criminality. committed by didn't. look at the boers the breaks it was caused from a big part because of this migration prizes and because of the migrants policy of the european union so and breaks it is the beginning of the end of the

you so does this was a big big problem and you see also the pensions now between countries in the european union between on one side and germany on the other side. between the countries of the sugar are the group on one side and germany on the other side so this this problem is making european union falling apart. yet another story to bring you this. is introduced new restrictions on tech exports in a move that could block the sale of tech talks operations in the us r t saskatoon why companies are buying to buy up until recently was the focus of spying allegations. law i knew began stealing if you believe the u.s. these are china's favorite hopis 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 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 beating 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 involving volatile and legal disputes talk about of an executive order we're looking at it we may be bending 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 whose security company very very american company via 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 this lip 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 is doing 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 has washed its weight in gold tight juggernauts microsoft and oracle said to be leading the race in a potential deal i don't want to take out a room at $22.00 thoughts he $1000000000.00 bill to daunce the way to ownership of the outrageously successful op i knew not what gas he was also eyeing up a piece so it's possible our viewers 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 price 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 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 bat for me was 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 and i think in one sense trying to want 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 based. force of fire sale of cutting edge attack that undercuts the value of the chinese companies but also gives chinese or u.s.

companies access to technology that they don't have. living on to another headline stories french president and money paying his 2nd official visit in a matter of weeks to lebanon he's pushing for reform on a time of political turmoil in beirut following the recent deadly explosion with more on not here's our t. charlotte you can see. well this is president marcos 2nd visit to lebanon in a month will it be another photo opportunity or will he be able to achieve something concrete his visit tot already being planned 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. 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 over lebanon president who 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 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 on loan 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 states and 250000000 pledged from says foreign minister has said that the 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 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 peace when national. we god willing was regards to naming the prime minister forming the government so we will be co-operative and contributed to pulling the country out of the power of 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 leading has been in these talks is something that essentially knew what the west has done that is open to the party politics in lebanon is a movable 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. you just get some more insights into this story we spoke with french attorney kharaj he sees external calls for reform in lebanon are unlikely to be successful. french presidents like

to show the world and its population that france is still a superpower that's why people call people. belong but for people that are against france or against the west point of view they go along discrete you say just friends. post-colonial superpower who comes and wants to say he's worth 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 even the not the government well it's the same because they go there for a day all 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 us believe in terms of politics and the economy called struggle. still ahead donald trump's former national security advisor michael flynn has lost an

appeal for the criminal case against him to be this mess we've got live reaction to that story and more besides up to that. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. one almost show seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me old

but yet to shape out this day become active. and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. we're back with another chapter in a long running saga donald trump's former national security advisor michael flynn loss the appeal for the criminal case against him to be dismissed when was convicted of lying under oath during the russian probe the charges were dropped on

orders from the justice department but the latest ruling means that the case still has to go through the district courts federal judges ruled $8.00 to $2.00 against flynn his attorney sidney powell called the decision the. split as expected a long line 7 from the tone and tenor of the judges said oral argument it is a disturbing blow to the rule of law. with some background to the case michael flynn was questioned by the f.b.i. as part of the miller investigation into alleged russian meddling in the 2016 u.s. election he resigned after initially pleading guilty to lying to be f.b.i. but later claimed prosecutorial misconduct at that stage his new lawyer produce documents revealing the f.b.i. had set out to entrap flynn no valid cause to interview him in the 1st place. oh happy to say we can cross live now to george george is senior research fellow at

the global policy institute in london good to see you perhaps for viewers who are not so familiar with the whole russia gates the various legal disputes and all the people involved george this latest federal court decision in the case might sound like just another detail how significant is it. well thing in itself is very significant because what happens now is that he gets thrown back into the district court judge solomon but ultimately sullivan can't really do much with the gays and he can procrastinate. and take his sweet time about making it the solution but since he's a judge it is not a prosecutor he can't really bring a case himself against michael sullivan when both the defense and the prosecution are in agreement that the case should be dismissed so eventually judge

sullivan will have to decide to dismiss the case i mean unless he decides to resign the judgeship and become a member of the prosecution team. yeah just to point out that the case will now go back to a district court in in washington is that going to be the final step do you think or could this process drag on well past the election. well it's possible i mean i think it's quite likely that he will drag on the election and if some other than really decides to take his time about the witnesses and see one briefing after another yeah he can spin it ask the election and if he does refuse to accept. the dismissal of the case then. presumably lynn will take the matter to the supreme court or he could be you know they would return the case back to the d.c.

circuit and say to them look now sullivan has made this ridiculous ruling now if you can you have something to go on because of the moment what the d.c. circuit is saying is that it's premature for us to get involved because sullivan has not yet made a ruling yes and yet decided whether to accept. the government's. plea to have the case here just to reiterate what i said flynn's lawyer earlier produce documents alleging that the f.b.i. said i turned up the former security advisor george should this have been enough for the case to be dropped. of course it should have been the case should never have been brought in the 1st place because it was very important to remember is that flynn did not lie when flint spoke to russian ambassador saying. they discussed exclusively the issue of the expulsion of the russian diplomats from the united states and flynt suggested to the russian

children escalate states you know response symmetrically but don't escalate that's what they talked about he did not discuss a sanctions and so when the f.b.i. and then the and then mahler come along as they're all flynn live because he did discuss sanctions with the russians he didn't discuss sanctions the sanctions issue was something separate yes or bamma him impose sanctions on russia but he also expelled the diplomat flynn was talking exclusively about the diplomat the subject of sanctions didn't come up in the congress and it didn't come up in the interview with the f.b.i. people who as you say did indeed entrap him and there were there was no other reason for this interview other than to entrap him because they had the transcripts it was absolutely nothing to talk about just from the courts that they're supposed to be politically neutral do you think that the american judiciary has managed to

uphold that neutrality in the prosecution of of flynn and indeed other former trump aides you know the ones that come to mind paul munna ford steve allen as well. excellent question they get the answer is no. the in the case of the ban and this is the southern district of new york which is very democratic. and you know you have to you know one of the odd coincidence of spectacular arrests bannan are going yacht. one week before the republican convention. very unlikely in that case the. righteous no no the judge is in the obama appointee. saving the case the man of war the judges and the obama. this person some of them he's a clinton appointee the people on the d.c. circuit. the the 7 who today voted against every single one of the

democratic appointee nancy your question no the u.s. judiciary is perry heavily politicized so you can't make serious the any of their rules just briefly to expound on the point a little a former top lawyer for the obama administration has hailed the decision as quote an important step in defending the rule of law republicans took a different view is there a danger that statements further politicize this case well of course and remember you know barack obama who instead of nothing throughout the russian. brokes. 3 years he has said nothing and then he suddenly weighed in at the moment when the . justice department. moved to have the case against lindh dismissed and then some new obama weighed in so you can see the democrats are very very high price

on getting when you're just as obama you know in our various unloads all meetings that the place in january when 78 obama was done and yet so now the democrats are absolutely determined to get the scalp this is their one scalp there's something to show that well there was something to rush to get and of course that was george thanks for your time george milly senior research fellow a fake global policy institute in london speaking to us from budapest today thank you. donald trump cut into joe biden's polling lead in the wake of last week's republican party convention the latest survey gives the democratic nominee a 6 percentage point lead down from 10 a week earlier and with the u.s. election just over 2 months away both candidates are hoping to reel in african american voters. because i'll have a great vice president at my side 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. when i'm reelected the best is yet to come with biden's efforts to win black vote sitting through choosing his running mate she is the 1st black woman all the major parties presidential ticket biden also given into future upper carty be at a time when he's being criticized for a site stepping over media requests his remarks about black people have been widely ridiculed. your moral question of god so if you have a problem figuring out where you're for me or drum and you ain't black unlike the african american community with notable exceptions the latino community is a incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different

things. well biden's approach to criminal justice has also eliminated some of the b.l.m. movement who want the police defended his policies would see an increased police presence in some black communities human rights activists say this all gives the impression that biden doesn't really understand black voters. was quite clear that the. strong forces. targeting black voters they believe that some sectors of the black population is in fact in play that is they can be persuaded to support. it and it may be successful because of the fact that the democrats don't appear to be anything different than the campaign that they invest in 2016 1000000 reasons to support if you have a black person the bits of your life member of the working class but they also made

it reasons 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 policies. and his positions over the course of his 47 years in congress. for up to the moment developments today do give r.t. if you're not already a follow on twitter and if you're doing the instagram thing i can promise you won't be bored by giving the channels page some of your scrolling time to see at the top . join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see if that.