the saturday morning then the u.k. registers a massive rise in attacks on asians reflecting on to reflect global trend of scapegoating the community for the pandemic. and the league system has been such a common thing for so long just. then we're just you know we also feel. a top french minister christ foreign interference over the turkish building of europe's largest mosque deepening toxic rhetoric over the role of radical islam at the heart of europe. and the sex concerned brought in to deal with growing global rules criminalizing intercourse without explicit approval.

we're trying to use technology to protect women instead of teaching men that they need to respect the right of a woman's body because it's unintended consequence opens the gates for predatory litigation. that we can with make heaven on its 9 a one of the morning here live from our world news center moscow got the latest from us for you than we're going to go to the u.k. story but the something with 1st we're going to talk about hundreds of protesters of march through central san francisco calling for an end to violence against asian americans. was latest pictures just in the march was organized by students in response to a deadly shooting rampage in the atlanta area earlier. this month allegedly

motivated by. racism demonstrators held signs calling for solidarity with the victims of hate crime which made time as mentioned in those headlines following a riff it global trend the u.k. has shot up an astonishing 300 percent of anti asian attacks and hate crimes with the supposed chinese origins a coronavirus being used as a justification police boy to report on. the racism against asians has increased dramatically in recent months across america there's been a spate of violent attacks particularly against elderly asians and there's horrific shootings in atlanta it's all bull the topic into much sharper focus but the issue of violence against asians is becoming a bigger problem in britain as well according to one statistic attacks against asians have increased by 300 percent ever since the coronavirus pandemic began and

now more people are willing to talk about it i feel it asian racism has been such a common thing for so long though like in school for example it was just so it was so easy to just delay case the greases asian commons whatever and everyone know everyone what sort of stuff to they say if i can. said that out loud it's if you care so much of the genuine the leg it gets you so riled up when you're so offended so it's easier to just nod that's such a shame that's so sad what you're saying that you just hate that people are saying so much sometimes that you have to just talk into a brick wall or sometimes you can try to see as much as you want but if they'd not going to listen you can't convince them of them pinning you just really angry because of the call the 19 you know some people on the subway are you asian bring the just one time in my campus and the guards are riding a bike and. me you know maybe still some people things of viruses come from china

but everyone in china will suffer too so i don't think that is i will falter you hear about these stories does it make you feel more vulnerable you know in london or in the u.k. given what's happening in america you know to be honest at 1st. i met people really like every time. expression night i have definitely experienced racism throughout my life. i think it's well something it's an important conversation to be having with people just to raise awareness and it's something that i think a lot of asians have always put up with and we just brush aside. so i think it's it's because they're really talking about it now i think what's been happening in the u.s. and even the things that have been happening in the u.k. you know that that was 300 times more incidents happening now is scary and it does make me think twice of going somewhere because i work in health care. there have been cases where patients. don't want to be treated by asian doctors

because of the link with the virus high up when the coronavirus happened so it becomes more worse in my opinion it's it's been always there. and for me i just had to be careful every day do you think it's good that people are taking notice now of it as a problem that the asian community is speaking out about it yeah i think it's better because before they're just focused on white and black lives matter where in fact it should be everyone it's matter and lives matter to you in my opinion i think this is the right time to tell everyone that asians should be also be respected we're just also humans you know we also feel scared or hurt a lot of asians argue that these racist attitudes have always existed either

through microaggression and so casual comments here and there it's always sort of been bubbling underneath the surface it's just that it's taken. in a way to shops defy that racism so the big it is however mistakenly feel that that unsavory views of now we legitimize. foreign interference is how a top ministers branded local officials moved from the front row to turkish but mosque in france that's become the biggest all mccomb to the shallow dubinsky reports from a top level row sparking poisonous claims of radical islam. the city of stress could soon be home to the largest mosque in europe it's being constructed right here but before the roof is even on its mind in controversy that's off to a grant with 2500000 euros was approved by the local authorities to a muslim group behind the mosque the brooming then began the interior minister hate

out at strasburg officials saying that they were sistering with foreign interference. when city hall of strasburg finances a mosque supported by federation which refused to sign the charter of principles of islam in france and which defends a political islam everyone should open their eyes so that the separatism will soon be voted on and adopted his or did the state prefect to oppose that multi 1000000 euro subsidy to the chorus islamic confederation the group but pan-european movement for the turkish to asper says it's dumb founded by the right now. because i think that it is a control for a city that is totally political and it's hard for us to understand the why and the how how a french association or european one which works here in france by the laws of funds makes it difficult to understand the theory that has erupted the organization

which is said to have close ties to ankara has become a better new offer president macron it was amongst 3 of the 9 branches of the french islam council that refused to sign a charter we're not saying political islam and committing to french values. it's a charter that was not discussed not by the federation not by the mosques and not by muslims it's a chance of that directly concerns muslims and unfortunately muslims and most didn't give their opinions and that's not acceptable. the issue at hand though isn't perhaps so much this mosque but the wider current tensions between france and turkey the turkish president has repeatedly lashed out at my corner accusing him of anti muslim policies in return mark corners openly accuse turkey of getting ready to meddle in next year's elections you are there will be attempts at interference

in the next french presidential election i consider this to be unacceptable it's written down the threats are not veiled. for most people here in strasburg the row has moved a political edge and concerns about interference seemed secondary to the mayor of strasbourg said if the government had information they should give it to us for me this is logical otherwise how are we supposed to know if it's true or not. shake. well yes everyone has the right to their beliefs whatever they are christians muslims or jews i think that we should also think about building churches instead of criticizing thinks. and want to double or i think as a muslim 1st of all to finance a turkish association to finance a mosque in the city i think it is contradictory i think it is a political decision more than anything else. it was

a problem that has never posed a problem for churches and so why does it pose a problem for one mosque so i think it is rather political because it came without any warning. if you want we know there were also big problems between micro and recently i wouldn't be surprised if there were some sin and against going on. and with the presidential elections only a year away you some have suggested that the controversy over this mosque is being used as a bit of a diversion tactic over the government's handling of the couvade crisis meanwhile the authorities in strasbourg say the funding is contingent on the merely gora's islamic confederation reaffirming its commitment to the values of the french republic they've also complained directly to the elite say about the route. the middest of the interior did not issue any warning on this subject the risk of

foreign interference should be addressed whisper season and seriousness was local officials can know there is used to this informal exchanges but it wasn't just the interior minister who hate out of the decision to help fund the mosque the minister for citizenship was also scathing suggesting the green party was on a very slippery slope and was flirting with radical islamists that was a step too far for sun. it is not possible today for the minister to take advantage of his position to demonize his opponents because because they are dynamic it is in mediation of the democratic debate we're still he said the mare of strides burke has received death threats since the controversy was unleashed what this polemic highlights is how heightened tensions are in france particularly over islam and islamic extremism as the government tightens the screw on any group

project that it thinks could threaten french values the more it's opening itself up to allegations of being anti muslim charlotte do you will ski r.t. strasberg. controversial one this a sexual consent has been created to deal with growing numbers of countries criminalizing intercourse without explicit approval is just the latest example of reality mirroring hollywood may be i am god i consent to that was. our stars are. the our consent uppercase requires users to give approval via their phones it stores the digital document as proof police in australia already proposed using the app to address growing concerns over rape cases but critics say it won't solve the real problem could even make things worse. we're wanting to use technology to allow women to make their voice heard and that sounds like it's

a great idea on its face right fight unfortunately because it is consent and consent can be withdrawn at any given time what we run into is the fact that well what happens if a person does consent on the apple then decides she no longer can since the issue that we want to use technology to keep up with the times that unfortunately it doesn't do enough to actually protect a woman's right to choose and have autonomy over her body intimate relationships i think technology should be completely and totally removed because it's unintended consequences and opens the gates for predatory litigation it causes so many problems that you would not even want to even start to think about heaven and what we're trying to use technology to protect women instead of teaching men that they need to respect the right of a woman's body to make a decision we're just teaching men try to go out try to cover yourself in and

protect yourself as best as possible so that this can come back to bite you in the future and while the apt to be helpful if you were just for research purposes in a sense you know before the sexual encounters did you can stick after the sexual can encounter do you continue to give consent that's one thing but at the same time wanting to take this app and court a court of law and say oh well i guess i didn't write her because she gave me a fit that doesn't work because the considered to literally be rude changed within 2 minutes after giving it on the app or you could call larson once a gift and sale of the apps so it's not you know a clear cut solution at all to educate people is one thing but to have a culture that promotes you know relationships and you know healthy ones is another we have a culture right now where we have carty basing in a song that brings a huge confusion to the message. what are we teaching our children and it's specially because of social media children are especially. to raising the

bar of thinking why it is appropriate in order to be accepted in society it's really causing a lot of confusion it specially for the younger generation. in a bid for more diversity us here to scrap the production of said the rela because the cost was too white. we believe unapologetically in the changes we are making and we believe that all of our contacted guests will follow us on this journey the artistic director of the minnesota production says the cause was 98 percent white breaking its diversity policies but eyebrows have been raised as the company's based in a suburb that's overwhelmingly white making it hard to fill racial quotas it's ignited a firestorm on social media i will screw up my placer ever visit chanhassen dinner theater declaring the diversity cause at a local dinner theater is simply bad business and are necessary no problem one move

venue to never get my money ever again really rivera the reactionary times online news site told us that it is decision in his view reflects a dangerous development. this whole cancel culture sort of super diversity mafia that is operating right now is basically what they're doing to me when i look at something like this from a far is that they're trying to legitimize anti-white racism i mean we're not talking about the public sector this is not you know let's say a government entity that hired only white employees disses you know subjective issues this is art let's say that was a play they somehow was cast that let's say that they were in a black neighborhood or the story takes place you know when it was in black characters are we going to force them to cast white actors playing black people it just it doesn't none of this really makes any sense other than the fact that

they're one trying to call attention and create controversy maybe to bring attention to their theater who knows and to it's a another attempt to me again to legitimize this anti-white racism that we continue to see in plain sight in america and other places. coming up china and poses for toiletry sanctions on britain hitting back at western embargoes of a beijing's alleged rights abuses since coming. to the program with the united states. russia countries which they don't like it to you doesn't matter what kind of regime they don't have . problems with different regimes the countries generalists quite the likes

of the river but that is are. different regimes which was. in the very strong the americans cannot do nothing about. so the result is that we don't know what to do with it so bush job to. use with. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is spearing dramatic developments only and going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down in tok. china slap sanctions on british individuals and entities who are quote spreading

lies in this information it's a retaliation for similar moves against beijing by the e.u. u.k. u.s. and canada western leaders have accused beijing of human rights abuses against the weaker muslim minority with washington even claiming genocide the u.s. says china is holding the members of the ethnic minority unlawfully in detention centers it's something beijing strongly denies saying the camps are full reeducation purposes and to combat terrorism r.t. someone right says no days this is how tit for tat policy work. international sanctions or in other words american launched economic weapons and it's growing over countries that washington doesn't like and having something of a purple new u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken now in brussels on the heels of concerted sanctions against top officials blamed for the moslems in china's western province

and we've had these u.s. president joe biden has made his 1st major move against russia has imposed sanctions on russian officials and businesses those over the jailing in the lead poisoning of kremlin critic alexina valmy we got these rumbling on to after the reported poisoning of opposition politician alex enough on the many demanded of heart to construction of the north stream to so despite the sanctions use it cause more misery to the populations of the countries they're aimed at rather than the governments just ask the venezuelans or the iraqis or the rain ians or the cubans is a long list they're still normally sold as being for humanitarian reasons which is why you always get those sanctions against saudi arabia. generally speaking sanctions come wrapped in a u.s. flag even when the e.u. and canada sanction china is still a sleepy joe biden holding their hands or sniffing their sanctions are ultimately d.-o. political weapons are equal parts flexible and hypocritical you can really use them

to show off your humanitarian credentials to the world we will not be silenced into speaking out about these human rights abuses the international pressure will only continue to grow sounds good actually do for chinese officials one organization named shamed and sanctioned britain's foreign secretary the so worried about the way goes along with the e.u. that they've sanctioned for chinese people out of a population of 1400000000 dominick robbers corner secretly taped last week actually supporting increased trade with china. washington's humanitarian credentials don't exactly add up either they're currently linking future sanctions against russia's pipeline to germany to the fate of no brownie even though they've been trying to sink ground pipeline 3 years before he became a cause celeb wonder why the us has argued and in fact excessively with some countries like poland for example that actually there's a lot of us gas and they're happy to look at 5 and send it to countries in europe

that sounds pretty lucrative doesn't it well germany got behind the sanctions on china but tensions are running worryingly high between germany and the united states the bone of contention is a just pipeline. hereon dedication to novell ms well being doesn't extend to shutting down the pipeline which brings lots of lovely cheap gas international solidarity is pretty much. the reason sanctions have worked in the past is because the us has spent decades as the most powerful nation on earth more importantly it prints the dollar the global business currency which means it can use it any time it wants as a. lie so much in the world and the shifting foreign minister one he has extended warm welcome to russian counterparts. china russia getting together not just for the food among other things they want to the dollar they sense that as the sanctions are coming from fading powers they don't just have to sit back and take

him on the chin any more china has now issued saying i'm the main foreign policy decision making body and this china has slapped sanctions on british individuals and organizations beijing retaliated china sanctioned. our supposed to work beijing is apparently willing to sacrifice a huge trade deal is signed with europe movie thing is going to suffer more from. the times are changing sanctions may no longer be a one way street. but even america's allies and the threat of some. since hanging over them the u.s. secretary of state warning german companies involved in russia's nordstrom to gas pipeline to europe also risk penalties got reaction from a lawmaker with the german social democratic party. the european union and its member states certainly have different views when it comes to security policy ideas with nato in the e.u.

there are always joint dialogues and shared procedures i can't imagine that individual projects like north stream 2 or other projects would threaten the security policy interests of the e.u. as a whole or cause the member states to disagree the united states through its sanctions laws has ways of targeting individual companies involved in the construction and completion of north stream 2 i can't judge at the moment to whether they are political decisions in the us in this regard on the other hand after the project is completed it will be a question of how the european union deals with the gas supply and not a question of how the individual companies are involved in this. as a matter of fact i don't like export bans on vaccines but it's always a question of reciprocity if the british government for its part ensures that the british companies meet their contractual obligations to the member states of the european union that it goes without saying that vaccines goods or other services

produced in the e.u. will also go to the u.k. in principle i believe that export restrictions are not the way forward but it is a question of reciprocity at the end of the day it's about making sure that all countries around the world and in europe get and provide enough vaccines for their citizens the covert crisis will only be solved if all people worldwide are vaccinated we must do everything to ensure that enough vaccines are made available there will be no solution which is only restricted to a national level. from what i have read and heard us put nick v. is a high quality vaccine comparable in its quality to other vaccines already approved in europe of course and once it is approved sputnik the can also help to fight the pandemic as quickly as possible every vaccine that is available and every person who has been vaccinated it gives society and all of us more security sputnik the can certainly also make a valuable contribution to this. also happened around the world this weekend

hundreds of protesters chanting kill the bill of faced off with offices in front of a police station in the southern u.k. city of bristol. i mean recent arrests were made on the latest protest against bill to let more unfortunate set time noise limits on rallies police support dogs and pepper spray to disperse the crowd as the demonstration turned violent with people in projectiles at offices. at least 32 people have died and more than 100 injured after 2 trains have collided in egypt authorities say it happened when emergency brakes were used on one of the trains the country's rail networks been plagued by accidents off and down for maintenance and management. police have fired rubber bullets and tear gas as hundreds in bangladesh protested the visit of india's prime

minister he's accused of heightening religious tensions in discriminating against india's muslims demonstrators in was the majority bangladesh way choose in protest attacked offices. the taliban swarmed the u.s. against missing the 1st of may deadline for pulling its troops out of afghanistan the armed militant group says washington will be fully responsible if the violence continues but on thursday joe biden reiterated that getting the withdrawal done on time would be a tough task. be hard to meet me when there's much. terms of. tactical reasons for him to get those troops we will leave the question is when we leave. there are currently 2500 u.s. troops in afghanistan the lowest number since operations began there in 2001 the taliban claims there's no reason to miss the deadline as all tactical issues were settled in a deal signed off by former president donald trump last year brian becker from the

antiwar answer coalition says washington's reason for not pulling out as got nothing to do with logistics. controls mortuary to reach it. even it did many 8th. october 8th 2001 so why is the u.s. dragging its feet in the pentagon and buying they don't want to take responsibility for what might come next and what might come next is the television routing the existing afghan government imposing a full out complete taliban government so the u.s. doesn't want to take the next step but it can't really avoid taking the next step so more american soldiers and certainly more afghan civilians are about to die unless fighting recognizes the reality that the u.s. cannot win this war taking 2500 troops out of afghanistan by may 1st is obviously. technically in logistically easy biden says otherwise it probably is that the u.s. can't come completely sell the puppet government in afghanistan to go along with

the deal because once the americans are out the existing the existing government that's been put into place by the americans is very likely to be crushed so the u.s. is in iraq it is it is between a rock and a hard place but so is the afghan government but the reality on the ground is if the taliban wanted now a launch a massive offensive to drive out those last $2500.00 troops they could do it they're not doing it right now because they're hoping that the u.s. comes to its senses and leaves that's what talk about so far the saturday morning phase taking the time out for me and the rest of the to have a great weekend. poor

people america no representation of. the problem there's nobody in government that represents people who are not part of a multimillionaire lobbying who work for banks who print money for themselves. in this year printing money and gaining from i can tell the fact you have nobody in government representing in america not a single congressperson not a single senator nobody in the white house represents you you are on your own. i knew you would buy big one for 10 years like we've been saying and you 2 would have $101520000000.00 even if you started with 5 or $6000.00.