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welcome to your friday story. the british government has looked. of the possible options but. pushing. the objective here is to is to save life and avert human misery because people are crossing the channel who are being fooled who are being combed by gangsters into paying huge sums of money risking their lives people have died beaking this trying to make this crossing and it is a deeply repugnant traffic that we need to stop well that idea was 1st suggested

by pretty little the home secretary amid the escalating migrant crisis though at the time it was branded a sick joke however that idea has now resurfaced from the prime minister barak johnson plow critics have long said that this kind of policy will only make the journey all the more risky and that the government should really be prioritizing legal alternatives and safe passages for migrants to enter the united kingdom but on this latest policy they've branded as exacerbating the hostile environment it is an inhumane paula said that undermines our nation's proud tradition of providing protection to people fleeing persecution and terror many of whom have gone on to work as doctors and nurses in the n.h.s. these absurd ideas show the government has lost control and all sense of compassion well even the united nations has waded into this latest plan of shipping asylum seekers and refugees to remote areas in exchange for cash by calling it a risk to eroding international protection for refugees but at this point we have

heard from some of those remote territories british remote territories are saying they're having none of it along with ideas to build a road tunnel under the irish sea or a bridge above it this latest idea simply as to the rich tapers tree of life we're dealing with at present april the 1st isn't until next month but nonetheless the idea is expected to be included in policy papers as of next week as part of a wider shake up of asylum rules in a post breck's in britain so the situation is looking in credit. bleak for asylum seekers here in the united kingdom in fact right now asylum seekers are being housed in temporary accommodation including former army military barracks that have long been described as prison like we've seen covert outbreaks and totally. hygiene facilities there as well which has also met huge criticism from charities organizations and the labor party as well it seems as though the case of asylum seekers has long been a thorn in the government's side and so now this latest idea to ship them off to

remote shutter territory seems as though the government is changing its tactic of lock them up and throw away the key to out of sight out of mind. several european countries have said that they will resume astra zeneca vaccinations after the european medicines agency gave it the all clear however a british nurse we spoke to earlier today says many people are still reluctant to get the job people were concerned about the speed at which the vaccinations we develop so that's now compounded we've toolbox and concerns around blood clots in the connection with these these brain blood clots that can develop or they you know this is fission they may differ that after this particular vaccination i had a conversation yesterday with a patient who actually said that he would not be getting that one and he has now gone on to a different brand of vaccination because he's lost confidence in that one. of the

top medical officials insist the british made vaccine has been proven safe despite several cases of severe side effects across europe. in the meantime france is resuming its astra zeneca job program but there are still those reluctant to take the shot. i don't trust the spanx an adult i don't know if it's really true what they say with the media would no longer

know what to think it would be because i don't really have confidence in it and anybody i don't want to be vaccinated we don't have enough perspective it was quite quick so i think it's a little early in my opinion that. the vaccine is brand new i mean we don't know the side effects we hear about those who died but i don't want to take their whisk so i'm waiting eliot along with that i missed you never know how they made it there is a nurse she died and until of that there are people who died because of it so i don't really know if it really works or not. oh i think they concerns are warranted as we are because we don't really want to be gambling with people's lives you know it's not and there was a lot of talk around this speed at which the facts in the nation's what develops so there is a lot of concerns about you know how safe are the vaccine and now be it's you know i just i just hope that every something keep nice.

denmark has proposed controversial legislation that aims to reduce the number of quote non-western residents in neighborhoods to a maximum of 30 percent in 10 years now out of denmark's population of just under 6000000 around half a 1000000 are non western migrants or the descendants of immigrants that's around 8 percent of the population and while the country's plans are technically possible as artie's daniel hawkins explains there are other issues to consider. multiculturalism means different things to different people and has been described by bullet oceans as both a strength and a force for good and a failed experiment bringing more problems and solutions the danish government has its own view and vision of the future when many non-western immigrants settle in certain residential areas it increases the risk of create in parallel religious and cultural societies therefore the government will now work to create

a mixed house in areas and ensure that in 10 years residents with non-western backgrounds make up a maximum of 30 percent in our house in areas in denmark to be classed as a ghetto an area must have a high number of non-western migrants high unemployment and crime low income and poor education an area could be all of the above yet be majority white and therefore not be classed as a ghetto by non westerners authorities mean anyone not from denmark switzerland or they eat a country's and by reducing the numbers of such undesirables in communities many of the above listed problems could apparently be solved this core foods is about fighting. and greed in a positive development in residential areas making them more attractive to words range of the population i think 30 years may be kind of a drastic number. if i don't know many of the saddle of with like 50 i prefer different people living side by side but it's very very difficult to take implement

into this is it's important that we don't push people out of their homes if i was personally known with them. and they would try this way to racially divided us it would i would not feel welcome such areas in denmark already face special treatment such as doubled penalties for crimes collective punishment by a vixen mandatory language and training in danish values for kids and the limits on public housing this is a policy rooted in. prejudice and racism and when you are you know labeling it as non-western which means anybody who's brown. i think is the problem probably problematic and so integration is a 2 way street it can't be the responsibility just of the people who move into any particular country or that's where european governments have built they failed to integrate minority communities because they're what we've seen them as in what

we've seen them as not equally part of their societies similar plans came to light a few years back and caused a stir with even the un expressing its concern about what it called forced assimilation denmark isn't the only european state dealing with the issue of ghettoization france and neighboring sweden have had their own share of troubles there is a significant problem right across europe with the ghettoization i remember after some terror attacks in paris i went over to one of your states on the outskirts of town which was predominantly muslim now there's nothing wrong with that but what you have a tendency to find this in a lot of these european cities will be the most libertarian will be the african area and the be the kind of western area and what happens is people fail to integrate now i'll be honest with you i genuinely think that the problem here is that we have less it too many immigrants to europe too quickly thought was this isn't a perfect solution you can understand where it comes from copenhagen to set an ambitious and unprecedented plan to tackle

a political football head on other countries will watch closely to see it sink or swim. the kremlin has repeated its offer to washington for the 2 presidents to hold a meeting in the form of a live broadcast debate a lot of my putin has been trying to clear the air after some pretty harsh comments from joe biden last week but so far the u.s. has not responded to requests for talks other than saying that joe biden's rather busy has r.t. correspondent saskia taylor. well we all know that moscow and washington are no strangers to tense relations but many had hoped this was a thing of the past however of recent days seem to show that very little has changed since the cold war the same suspicions the same war of words are alive and well decades on and in fact in a sign that such an impossible breaking point has been reached moscow was forced to admit that despite its best efforts and despite its hopes to the contrary the might

be no option but to relive a kind of through back to the low points of the past of course we always hope for the best and for the worst the president has clearly expressed his desire to maintain relations between russia and the u.s. no matter what it says he's not only in our interest but the entire world's why is such a resigned tone from the kremlin well just to recap quickly audie of this week on national television president biden essentially called vladimir putin a killer a shocking statement that was unprecedented in its lack of diplomacy unfounded in its lack of evidence and really unexpected given moscow's insistence over the years that a wants to work with the washington and in keeping with this tradition despite that remarkable comment from his american counterpart vladimir putin reiterated russia's readiness to cooperate with all countries of the world including the u.s.

but washington stopped by its guns person by the way going forward you. know the president gave a direct answer to a direct question i would say that the president already had a conversation already with president putin even as there are more world leaders that he has not yet engaged with and reengage with russian leaders and members of the government at all levels but i don't have anything to report to you in terms of a future meeting the president will. course be in georgia tomorrow and quite busy we seem to be seeing a never admit never apologize policy regardless of the consequences for must go more and all of branch an attempt to defuse the escalating situation in fact of the adamant putin did even suggest a quite unique a more sort of malton format for them to hash out their differences a one on one live streamed discussion between the 2 leaders where people from all

over the world can to men and watch them discussing a variety of political issues and he said that while he's away in siberia this we can't see any time he's not available otherwise he's ready to go but apparently joe biden wasn't a fan of the idea mr president out of the oval office would you agree. and it's not just biden turning his back on this invitation the white house has not responded to an official request which moscow and top prints as rejection but it is important to note that whilst this might seem somewhat playful maybe even a touch funny it was a very serious suggestion a serious suggestion for a serious situation because with washington apparently refusing to engage in any kind of dialogue pursuing this provocative rhetoric with the russian ambassador to the u.s. also having been recalled for talks there is absolutely no doubt that relations between the 2 countries are under exceptional strain at the moment. a report by

u.s. intelligence agencies has found that the threat posed by white supremacist groups has increased significantly this year and that the influence spreads far beyond the borders of the country comes in the wake of a shooting in atlanta in which 8 people died including 6 asian people at the mass media though very quick to label the incident as racially motivated. let's talk about motive police say that the suspect claims he had a sex addiction but there's also concern that the killings were racially motivated several advocacy groups warn that the shootings are likely to heighten fears among all asian americans that is just textbook i don't even understand why it wouldn't be charged as a hate crime however police some said it's just too soon to say if the shootings were a hate crime when the suspect himself well he's actually blamed as you just heard on his sex addiction the incident took place earlier this week when a gunman opened fire at 3 spas and a rights group in atlanta representing asian americans has linked the massacre to

the rise of white supremacist but political commentator lauren chan believes people should be more wary when using that term. well i think it's very concerning over the past few years how we've seen the definition of white supremacy get watered down to the point where now the term is essentially meaningless is that unfortunately people are very very liberal in applying the white supremacist label label where it simply does not belong and what that actually does it is makes it harder to combat real threats there was the recent shooting where asian women were killed that is an unfortunate tragic incident yes but there is a big difference in terms of how we prevent these attacks from happening when we say that someone was attacked and they happened to be asian versus they were attacked because they were asian and sadly that is a distinction that it seems the media is increasingly unwilling to make it's gotten to the point in terms of media coverage where you would assume that there was an anti asian or white supremacist shooting every week based on how much the media focuses on it and unfortunately what we have is people like my father who is asian

now even scared to visit large cities because he thinks that anti asian sentiment is that bad which is not the case f.b.i. statistics show that asian americans are the least likely group to have hate crimes committed against them. european union has pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent over the coming decade and the european commission chief says that if gold is going to be reached hundreds of billions of euros will have to be spent on boosting renewable energy we want to take green financing to the next level. because to achieve our 20 so to go alone we need to boost. green investment we know that we will have to invest around $3350000000000.00 euros more per year in the energy system in the coming decade to make it sustainable or the international renewable energy agency has given his own

assessment of how much it will cost to keep the global temperature rise to $1.00 degrees celsius by 2050 they say an additional $33.00 trillion dollars will be needed worldwide on top of the currently projected investment of $98.00 trillion dollars so that's almost a trillion dollars per year to fund the global switch from fossil fuels to cleaner sources of energy this at a time of global under spending on infrastructure a group of g 20 experts says an extra 15 trillion dollars will have to be spent mostly on transport over the coming years well let's bring a couple of guests now into the program here on the international sharon george now joining us a senior lecturer in environmental sustainability and green technology at kill university in the u.k. and charlie boyle as well a financial journalist thank you both for joining us today sharon 1st to you. von de lay and just saying about where to go an extra 350000000000 year rose per year

is needed to fund the switch to renewables do you think there's really such an appetite for that kind of spending is especially considering now admits that the whole pandemic. i think there is an appetite i think at the moment especially what we see in industry in money. is a recognition of the need that that $1.00 talk must be clear about if we hit that one point. that does make climate change go away to stop it being as bad as it could be and there is an appetite to meet that talk and put that if we think about industries like glass money to steal money back to cement thank you these are not easy industries to decarbonize and then on top of that we have things like transport but at the same time that was spending the money we're creating green jobs so i think this is doable it's going to be painful but in the long term it's going to benefit and it's going to offset that damage that's hockey through climate change right now and it's getting worse year on year on year where it is having an

economic impact through storms through heat waves through 3 wildfires that we are painful now and we're going to increasingly painful who don't place the slush on that this is this is what i want to throw over to charlie now because you raise the issue here charlie you know whatever level of spending we're talking about here isn't the cost of a catastrophic climate breakdown going to be much higher perhaps. you know how many expos very much with the year pandemic crisis over the last year i think in the public's mind this is expediting a lot of these issues but if you go back to what. it was pretty clear that the economy was given priority over health and i am was one of the few financial people in the industry to say from the beginning we need to solve the health problems and then get me economy karen and if we're in that order we'll have a sustainable recovery and then we can talk about the long term strategy for the

for the energy sector but you've got to do it in the right order because right now and i'm seeing this across europe obviously you carries a slightly bent position because the vaccination but i'm an american in the canary islands right now and we're really now in a complete mass on and back almost vieja day since the last lockout and we're actually in a worse position now than we were then so i want to see a long term strategy for renewables that it's achievable in the same way as we. as with the pandemic and it seems like maybe we haven't really got a proper strategy for either of them on it but we have to do it in the in the right or that's my concern or sharon that's just crossed over the pond for a moment a us democrats are pushing for an arguably more ambitious green new deal with some estimates putting the cost of up to what $93.00 trillion dollars over the coming decade do you think perhaps the e.u. should be setting as targets even higher. i think that the more money you spend tackling climate change as quickly as possible the less you're going to pay down

the line i appreciate is a balancing act and there's only so much money available and so i think i think the e.u. will be well i think there's no well the problem is there's no right to wrong answer he and because you know it's ringback a it's an it's an awful thailand to have to spend it on on health now or she spends time on climate change later but. either way it's difficult but i think if you are dealing with climate change right now the mall is investing now. now less pain we're going to have don't go down the road when we have to clean up the messes that we'll share and you're mentioning you know the issue of health implications a moment ago charlie climate change aside there's there's a more immediate health risk from you know fossil fuels about $40000.00 deaths in britain the link to pollution and the figures are much higher in the developing world so surely that's something that needs to be addressed urgently. yeah i mean

all these things have to be addressed urgently and we certainly need a plan but it has look my point is as more of a long term plan than just just funding that with proof that there is money for everything especially when you can create money digitally now through central banks . but we have to have a strategy that has to be long term or just this obsession with governments to do what ocular just look 36 months down the line many years from out most people just forgot about that that applies to renewables of which i'm an investor and the parent i meet and the policy and everything else that's going on right now we really need long term plans all of these things are marriage the money we just sensuality to coordinate and have a balance sharing to do you think the big government spending plans are really going to be the answer i mean should the onus be on the government to spend its way out of a crisis like this or or are much more radical change is going to be needed in the way that people like you and me live i think it's going to be arlen stick prange

and i think that's a really interesting point about about times and about short and long term planning and one of the it that has been one of the problems this got us into this mess is the short term planning and where government successive governments come in then they change things in the next quarter come in and then change it back again so where we need a long term planning to tackle health issues i'm kind of changes those adjustments to just kind of sat on the fence and kicked around and so we do need both we need a long term plan and i think governments do need to start taking this seriously and and invest but think about think about it as. a long term problem and have that strategy in place charlie we've all been traveling less of course during this whole pandemic and the various lockdowns is this something you think we're going to have to try and get used to in the future. well i mean i'm not a medical expert but i have solidarity industry in iraq in our early stage basing

since the beginning of the care our jury believe that to a certain extent this terrible crisis is a permanent fixture and vaccination is one of the tools but not the solution solution is to keep the cases down and make sure there it started out of control i mean if you look at some other there is you know this may very very particular you know that that's a date surplus south america there are a number of dependence on that for example how the rest of europe is steering and whether people feel safe to travel i think we're all out of the great care but all research subject to some sort of health certificate or code or tests that must be a family and it just depends on whether people prepared to go go through that just for a week in syria abroad i mean they're uninspired right now except for it it's the weather's great it's not that much fun to be quite honest it's been like a ghost town and i don't see this changing the next few months to be honest i hope i'm wrong well tell us a good point sharon do you see any positive trends emerging from the pandemic in the fight against climate change you know working from home consuming less

traveling less yes it's interesting i mean we've been in these interviews now with mainly you know and i think there will be some elements in the last travel and people we're waiting think that and and couldn't they now think doing what is worrying some of the consumers and things that we've seen saying we need to be full before the pandemic equate to the away from things i should plastic pop the ancient plastic problem i mean it was consuming less classy macnair packaging well the importance of that plastic packaging is kind of new for now i'm being it can be the ins to be more the safety critical be cheering him how g.e. and that it's changed that that we were actually even more plastic than before and and i'm not sure that's been changed back in any time soon so we need things like integrated postal. we. used to think we're never going to get by the way maybe

that's not what we need to take based point in time to make change and choose things that you do 'd differently to put the best rush hour in georgia lecture a senior lecturer in environmental sustainability and green technology keel university and charlie boyle financial journalist thank you both for joining us today on r.t. international thank you. i thank you for sharing your time with us on this friday afternoon here with all the international live from moscow nearly half past 6 we are back soon with more. on else seems wrong. why don't we just don't call. me. yet to see how this thing become educated and in detroit equals betrayal.

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in welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle to the summit in alaska representatives from china and the united states will meet for the 1st time. since the advent of the bible in ministration what can beijing expect what will washington demand and the 2 sides agree to disagree will it be a meeting of low expectations. across talking china u.s. relations i'm joined by my guest daniel is our in new york he is a journalist and author of 3 books on the u.s. constitution including we have daniel mcadams he is the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity and in northville we cross to tom watkins he is president and c.e.o. of t.w. associates a global business and educational consulting firm hi gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate danielle

let me go then you make adam's let me go to you 1st here i suppose it's a good idea.