in headlines this wednesday morning from moscow denmark insists it effectively needs a separate category for muslim migrants in crime stats a move blasted by critics racism we put it up for debate. if you ignore that problem and people see that those people are many times then we have you know another tendency to more racist. stop people. and groups and look at this right because the more. that. what you are trying to report the. furious restaurant workers

rally in new york city is most eateries including world famous venues are projected to go bankrupt amid a new city lockdown we speak to one of those restaurant owners. of skid row my family from you know if you if there is nothing we will be shutting down probably by march that's the realistic outlook. coming up for you the e.u. launches a huge crackdown on global tech giants like facebook and apple really controversial growing fears of their online domination in the wake of similar moves by washington . moscow time good morning this 16th of december live from art international's world news h.q. kevin owen here for the next hour stay with me to take you through those headlines and in more detail starting with this him from denmark that country defending

a new law that to effectively classify muslim migrants separately in crime stats critics say the moves clearly racists but the country's immigration minister who incidentally his own father is ethiopian explained why it's needed. this new designation will provide a more honest political discussion about the minority of immigrants who create very great challenges there is a huge difference in how immigrants from thailand the philippines and latin america fare in relation to people from for example the middle east and i do not think it is racist to categorize countries based on that many on social media raise disturbing memories of colonial practices though copenhagen previously had just 2 groups for crime stuff that's western the non-western but now there's this new proposed category especially for those from predominantly muslim nations such as the middle east north africa so to talk about. we were joined by but she can raise sheep chair of the european network against racism and also political journalists

even threaten or. i don't think that acknowledging the truth and looking at the facts can ever be. racist or sick tarion but i think it has to be mentioned that the minister of immigration and integration in denmark right now belongs to a social democratic government so it means that he doesn't come from a right wing political idiology in this gear is wrong you can be poor muslim country music. and the lead you to do you know look at it by the prime minister of this going to do a search of him i know her personally and she is one of the more islam person you can find anywhere i have lived in denmark for 50 years and they come from pakistan i'm going on a non-religious person but her muslim background and her group for 40 years minority politics in denmark and european union you know they talk about my vision

we now know my view. and one. must read through to them a critical part and it is actually the ministry itself that has done this research and it shows that. 5 percent of young men from north africa the middle east pakistan and turkey actually do have some kind of sentence because they committed a crime as it is quite lower for other immigrants from other countries and this are the facts and i don't think it is racist to say hey we have a problem here and i think if you ignore that problem and people see that those people are many crimes then we have you know another tendency to be more racist also i think actually this is to cram ben's racist was too far you know very well that data can be used misused and you can fix the do to as you who aren't white look on me a person with not european cultural background what is the sense in that i think

that the din is so tight is should stop dividing people. into culture religion and group and look at this right you know the whole i think we have to separate idiology and facts here if we have a young or a group of young dentist man that were born in denmark that had such a high crime rate the government would address that too and say this is a problem we have to help this problem known look when you make a list of don't want countries which have a muslim majority countries and see if the problem comes that is 1st of all there is a lie because most how pakistani the turks go to universities have good jobs there have been wonderful profession why don't we talk about them have you ever read any report in denmark which averages show us the contributions after getting large is going to be asians which have been in commerce in business is actually driving in everything that is needed if you want to integrate if you want people to be part of

the mr psyche belonging then you have to have troops here and not through the human eye i do understand that for all the good law abiding muslims in this country it's not nice to hear those facts but still they are facts many many surveys from fundamental right we didn't see. in this room relational data as proved there denmark is doing the ground action that is near should be putting over for something you are inflaming a lot of hatred against denmark i uninstalled and have those i am full and i am going to lunch there because i am dedicated i also do something about the problem a spot in denmark right now meantime in britain what country struggling with its own migration issues too as villages oppose housing refugees near there not my backyard the say a correspondent travel to the scene in southern england to gauge people's opinion that's coming up just a few minutes time. but not before we talked i was suddenly new york city very

tough on the businesses hundreds of restaurant workers have rallied in central new york blaming the governor for fresh lockdown restrictions they warn will force most of them they say out of business. write to your parents through our row. whatever you want to try to refer to our last credit i don't care the protests came a day off to governor cuomo but and indoor dining now these people say they want a big relief package as the report finds that without help more than huff of city restaurants are set to close permanently even like conic the news may have to shut up for good kind of mope and reports. the coded night teen pandemic has been deadly for a society's most vulnerable even the big guns are not safe and for businesses it's no different here in new york city the latest victim is club 21 and i connick

establishment that is now shutting its doors for good the restaurant has been serving customers for a century there's been some big stars along the way such as novelist ernest hemingway tennis player john mcenroe as well as every sitting president since roosevelt except of course george w. bush and barack obama club $21.00 is not alone small businesses have been devastated some estimates say that as many as 50 percent of them could go under soon after the war and having to take it away with them when they finally you know we're not getting any support from anyone in order to pay become pretty clear they really need. to pressure keep things getting more and more and more people out of her and it happened way back in the new york state restaurant association made up of over 6000 operators has many who fear they won't make it through the next 6 months it's carried over one year or every day and we believe there are some people

we have a little bit of business we can do that these 2 little bit more right we had to bring some people back to work and it's terrible to tell them that you know we give them you know hours of people working full time jobs. so it's a virtue. having to tell people that and i'm scared about my family but i'm going to have a job you know. if there is nothing that we will be shutting down probably by more that's the realistic with the burned out $552000000000.00 was provided as a bailout to small businesses during the pandemic however a big chunk of that went to major corporations tied to big banks not the little guys who are struggling to stay afloat meanwhile those that are still open for trade are facing see even tougher restrictions that one bar owner in los angeles was fighting back tears and anger when mayor eric garcetti closed down her outdoor patio and just across the way a hollywood movie set had outdoor dining all set up town but this is dangerous.

but right next to me as a slap in my face. that face politicians love to praise small businesses but is the whole game rigged it seems like when we finally emerge from this pandemic we might as well have dined out sheerest and said farewell to our favorite local spots open artsy new york. saddam and no next the e.u. has unveiled strict new digital market rules those tell me about to challenge the dominance of global tech giants the proposed legislation would apply only to the biggest companies with tens of millions of users like google like and officials behind the trough bill said they simply have no choice now we have such an increase in the online traffic that we need to make rules that order into chaos.

in europe. vote our responsibility is to decide and to give directions and ruge just to protect which is important to us. was hugely controversial this one the new rules could strip big tech of up to 10 percent of turn of if they break the competition principles european officials also want to be told of a planned big mergers or acquisitions in the sector to repeat violators could be banned from the e.u. so the proposals already being criticized maybe not unsurprisingly by google for a start which said it targets certain firms but europe is not alone in its opposition just last week 48 u.s. states together with the federal trade commission filed a lawsuit against facebook accusing the company of pumping money into unfair competition so we are so i guess whether all this could keep big tech in check.

the idea behind this is to not try to too narrow it into just one kind of attack but across all the tech spectrum of so-called gatekeepers the e.u. has consistently as aligned amazon find google find facebook for violating their rules over and over a key problem here is the fact that these companies continue to break the law france and germany continually say facebook is violating the law google is violating the law so they assigned them record size fines these companies build this into their actual bottom line in terms of a line item in their budgets to say we're going to pay fines because we're going to break the rules the penalties are enormous we're talking about 10 percent of global turnover and then if there is a persistent noncompliance that could be increased to 5 percent of daily then of delhi worldwide but over the e.u. he's saying hey you know we want to be able to to give internet companies we want

to give them an opportunity to compete do facebook and google will just have to accept the new reality. to the new rules it is difficult to see face grew pulling out of the e.u. altogether could see the ball the reality is that the village solution technology 72 different speeds and the low are not able to for all the evolution of technology sloan's keep for this reason that we are attempting to up the television station it is indeed in a 20 year signal you cannot force tech giants are to follow the rules that we dismantle finance and 'd he says speaking we have seen in the last couple of years so very small fine is enormous any keys is these fines that are not going off and off to scare giants. if you have seen already they let me tell you about a program coming up at various times to. this channel the horrors of coded and the

challenges of fighting it while russian medics showing us how it looks through his eyes the surgeons gained fame for posting poignant sketches from a coronavirus hot spot as a say various times later today. we've just finished a 3 hour operation it was our 3rd today that's one tired assistant. that's my son who came to me that night i had asked my wife to bring him my son and i have a very close relationship. i love my son and i so wanted to support him little and it upset him that i missed his 1st day. moreover before he was born i'd imagine seeing my kids 1st school day crying staring into the distance looking at teachers it didn't work out sadly.

but this is a patient from a care home due to diabetes he had lost both his legs. the thing is i drew him on the 5th of september. well certainly early september. when he arrived i thought he would die because he was suffering from moderate to severe covert 19. he had severe breathing trouble and was sent to the i.c.u. but on september 17th as i was just leaving the covert 1000 ward we were going down in the same lift. going back to the care home. this was my last picture my last but one working day which. i was as they say at the end of my tether. that day i had sent 2 patients to the i.c.u. they were severe patients hopeless cases that day i went to the i.c.u. and it scared the hell out of me what i saw there made me draw this picture of. a

depiction of despair when you walk across this room with no doors or windows and a terrible they can talk into which after the break more the fallout from it now is shocking warning from experts that more than 100000 children could lose their lives because a man nutrition poured on by covert 19 we speak to the report's authors is coming up. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

tyson nation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallows. aids emit a smoking gun we know now get out of the medium interference for the baby campaign before the election the hunter by the story was not it was not russian misinformation we were lied to again we are is the accountability. again is 18 past the hour next britain's struggling to deal with growing numbers of

asylum seekers and locals in one village a fuming at plans to house newcomers near their easterly trouble to find out more. until 20th in record numbers of people attempting to reach the united kingdom and claim asylum thousands made the journey a while not all will be granted permission to stay long term all do need somewhere to live quite well but the question is whether one location under consideration it's clear to me from village of boston stacy in hampshire where there are proposals to build accommodation bob to 500 young men seeking asylum with just the church a pub a village store and a population of only a 1000 people that if it is it simply won't cope just more were a very large 500 people squat lot so i think maybe i'm not against the idea of the idea of it's good it's just the placement i think is a little off to maybe it should mean more towards a city or town. my concerns my city focus around the facilities in the area and the

fact that it will be the other sort of a 3 a $320.00 shops or any of the buildings like that it's just going to cause a danger i think with people trying to cross the carriageway the issue here is that's a field in the middle of the countryside with no facilities and their services so whatever happens those people are going to have to walk somewhere or hit children to get any services that will be strong like. a petition by council to stop the home office from implementing the idea has been saturated but some in the local council are more welcoming of the idea i set up in the falklands in 1080 it was devastation all around people to death that they couldn't see any that they were trying to tell the sation of warfare is right and we didn't understand that relieving countrysides peace and quiet you know we have no concept unless you've been there you don't understand what these people have been through and what they've had to change is just to survive. this empty plot is ministry of defense

land and that's been floated as a location for the facility built temporary structures will include dining and sanitation facilities as well as. access to basic recreation but it's been compared to prison like conditions in some one of the possibility of overcrowding and the location in a busy country lane with no footpaths could be dangerous to. concerns of already been raised about other locations used to house asylum seekers such as the napier barracks a city in folks in kent the government to spend millions on housing asylum seekers and say these are just temporary measures while they work to find more sustainable solutions given pressure on the system during these unprecedented times we have worked tirelessly with local authorities and other partners to provide asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute with suitable accommodation as we are required to do by law if the napier barracks experience is anything to go by there are phases of overcrowding over the cove in $1000.00 pandemic still ongoing the

safety of those housed in the accommodation and local residents is paramount but with the number of asylum seekers needing shelters set to rise other communities could be placed in a very similar positions to the sally r.t.u. k. and bought in stacey. an additional 168000 children are said to die over the next 2 years from covert caused poverty major new studies. before covert 19 the world was ready off track to achieve this is tina full development goal to eliminate hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030 demick related economic contractions and food and health systems disruptions now threaten to exacerbate maternal and child under-nutrition across low and middle income countries services of a massive rise a 1000000 tradition from a pandemic the international standing together for many attrition groups warning them that they'll be over $2000000.00 more children with stunted growth poverty

will cause a similar huge increase in maternal anemia that's a reduction in blood oxygen that causes serious health problems in newborns we discuss the grim findings with the report's authors. we project the number's going to go up by 10000000 in the next 3 years but actually if the numbers are kept going without covert they probably would have gone down by 5000000 so the gap is not really 10000000000 the cap is 15000000 we're going to be 15000000 worse off in terms of kids that are malnourished the move would have been by 2022 without covert so was the progress fast enough no was there steady progress yes is this going to record our trajectory completely governments have to step up international agencies have to step up the private sector has to step up i mean everyone has to step up but these impacts that we're seeing now will have implications for future productivity as well because these children and i'm underage girl in high school

you bill grow up. and be impaired cognitive development they will do less well in school and they go earn a low incomes as an adult and then do the research staff also project at the future $20.00 to $50.00 losses could end up. being being judged and almost 30 per u.s. $1.30 u.s. dollars their economies all over i read affected by this pandemic but this only bill will come to enhance next year and already a year after any economic economist will say you know will not return back to normal with the children that are being born now from matters that are being monarchist. yet as a result of this pandemic they will suffer the consequences during their anti-life and also carry it on to next generation so we really have no time to waste. maybe through gritted teeth or not eventually

a top politician in donald trump's republican party's recognized joe biden as president elect of the biden's victory was confirmed by the u.s. electoral college but despite senate majority leader mitch mcconnell's a moment stalled trump himself continues to claim unprecedented voter fraud and allegation denied by the democrats parties for me to poke explores the deepening division. the healing process can begin in america after electors finally certified joe biden as the 46th president we the people voted democracy prevail and now it's time to turn the page but it seems not all of the united states is ready to move on donald trump and his 70000000 supporters are still hell bent on proving the election was stolen from them even before the november 3rd vote mail in ballots were a major talking point and those are introduced to combat covered 19 but one extremely susceptible to fraud when the results began to drop in truong cried foul as biden pulled away in the polls now for over

a month trump's team has been digging for evidence so far they've concluded the u.s. election process is a complete mess where even voting machines apparently don't work as intended we conclude that the dominion voting system is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud moveless election results. despite some questionable findings trump's legal challenges have essentially amounted to nothing with courts throwing out cases one after the other but after months of political and social turmoil some have had enough even from trump's own team i voted for don't drop this party has to stand up for democracy 1st and not clear sort of issues dust just a candidate parties are dragging their parties and this country off a cliff but the same democracy that has apparently been undermined during this election season has been bashed by both sides for decades now the 2 party system and a confusing electoral college with indirect voting all these cornerstones of american

democracy have been at the center of post-election debates and the same people that call for these systems to be abolished when they lose are completely fine being a part of them when things go their way i believe we should abolish the electoral college and select our president by the winner of the popular vote same as every other office but while it still exists i was proud to cast my vote in new york for joe biden and comer harris well disputes about how the president of the us is chosen aren't going anywhere this year's election in trump's challenge will certainly have an impact on the country's future with millions of trump supporters still convinced a 2nd term was stolen from them there are now calls of secession from states like texas and clashes between right and left wing groups have become a regular occurrence in the streets so while joe biden is said to be inaugurated as the next president of the united states the country seems to be all but united there are 70 or 80000000 americans who voted for trump who simply do not believe that this election was not stolen of course mr trump has not conceded and of course

none of the mechanisms of government particularly the courts there should be examining evidence or election fraud or have chosen to do so rather than that actually getting to the bottom of this in were read by people to show that there was no nothing wrong in this election instead they're stonewalling which simply needs the suspicion on the part. the trump supporters that this was not a valid election i'm afraid this is not going to be a small this is a permanent split now in american society on top of the ones that already existed. and that's the rub so far key parts of our us social media are up throughout the day from the breaking news times of course you've got loaded that will go straight to your mobile device right but with more just over half an hour from now kevin i wouldn't moskos something off for me in the to have a super day. oh

look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders that conflict with the 1st law show your identification for should be very careful about official intelligence and the point obesity is a great. play on theory with artificial intelligence will somebody. must protect its own existence is existing. it. seemed wrong. well we just don't all. get to shape

out these days become educated and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. as the u.s. economy was booming gaining numbers of people were made homeless. you can work 40 hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is the lead up to the reality of it is that we're not financially equality and the lack of political housing or living minimum wage give many people no choice but that's been a problem with the city you know those turn their backs on a whole new stay way out almost all of the food that is no answer because yes that requires resources the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become the

invisible clerks. greetings and salutation we are a little over a week and a half before christmas but the gifts are already were raining down on the corridors of power here in washington d.c. monday brought us the gift of the resignation of the presidential power mongering attorney general himself mr william barr yes the mastermind behind the infamous let's clear lafayette square of protesters with chemical weapons for a campaign photo op.