the american dream. question if you dream is for. the u.k. ridge says a massive rise in attacks on asians reflecting a rift global trend of scapegoating the community for the pandemic. if you like asian racism has been such a common thing for so long just. when the virus and. you know we're all still feel. the top french minister cries foreign interference over the turkish but building of europe's largest mosque deepening toxic rhetoric over the role of radical islam at the heart of europe. and the sex consent tops 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 the woman's body because it's unintended consequence is open for predatory litigation. good morning my name is kevin 0 in this is r t international let me take you through our top stories and this morning we going to san francisco 1st of all hundreds of marched through the center of that city calling for an end to violence against asian americans. almost 4000 anti asian incidents were recorded in the u.s. last year alone the rally follows this month's shooting rampage in the atlanta area which killed 6 asian women. and the violence is part of a global trend in the u.k. anti asian attacks and hate crimes have shot up an astonishing 300 percent the

supposed chinese origins of coronavirus being used as a justification. to reports. 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 old pull 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 and feeling 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 tell a case greece is 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 as a 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 90 some people on the subway are you asian bring the just one time in my campus and the guys 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 it's our fault so 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 my people were really like every time i remember ok. 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 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 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 they should be everyone is matter and should live. 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 it 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 top french with us does describe the country's plan to fund the turkish linked mosque in france set to become the biggest show drew pinsky reports from a top level rose sparking poisonous claims about 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 the separatism will soon be

voted on and adopted he's ordered the state to prefect to oppose that multi-million euro subsidy to the chorus islamic confederation the group but pan-european movement for the turkish diaspora 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 friends that makes it difficult to understand the fury 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 seeing 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 why dick 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 a 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. or oh yeah 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 all of. them 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. so 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. we know there were also the problems between micro and the gun recently i wouldn't be surprised if there were some sin and against going on. and

with the presidential elections only a year away 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 with precision and seriousness look was local officials can know the reduced 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 some. 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 mayor of stress 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 can ski r.t. strasberg. sexual consent taps being created to do with growing numbers of countries criminalizing intercourse without explicit approval was just the latest

example of reality marrying hollywood. i consent to that. our stars are. concerned her placation requires users to give approval via their i phones or phones it stores the digital document as proof police in australia have already proposed using the app to address growing concerns over rate cases but critics say it won't solve the real problem it 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 consistent and consistent 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 but 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 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 app to be helpful if it were just for research purposes in the sense of 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 into a 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 can step to literally be changed within 2 minutes after giving it on the app or you could call or someone it's 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 oblong are able to raising the bar of thinking what is appropriate in order to be accepted in society it's really caught in a lot of confusion especially for the younger generation. isco around the world who is happening new pictures in from bristol southwest england hundreds of protesters

chanting kill the bill facing off with offices in front of a police station then the u.k. . i really heated the numerous arrests made on the latest day of protests against a proposed bill to let law enforcement set time and noise limits on rallies police deployed dogs and pepper spray to disperse the crowd as the demonstration turned violent with people hurling projectiles at officers. at least 32 have died more than 100 injured as 2 trains have collided in egypt authorities say it happened when the emergency brakes were used on one of the trains the country's rail networks been plagued by accidents often turn to poor maintenance and management. police have fired rubber bullets and tear gas at hundreds seem bangladesh protesting the visit of india's prime minister he is accused of heightening religious tensions and discriminating against india's would slim's demonstrators in

muslim majority bangladesh way of choosing protest in the attacked offices. this is or to international good morning if you're watching the clock exactly 16 past the hour coming up theater in a predominantly white u.s. suburb cancels a production because it's cost was too wide were across it and more news this morning after this break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this very dramatic development only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. in. china slap sanctions on british individuals and entities for quote spreading lies and disinformation 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 its minority with washington even claiming genocide the u.s. says china's holding with members of the ethnic minority unlawfully in detention centers is make a lot of headlines around the world and it's something that beijing consistently denies saying the camps of reeducation purposes them to combat terrorism someone right then says this is how tit for tat politics 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 about new u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken now in brussels on the heels of concerted sanctions against top officials blamed for the crackdown on 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 who are over the jailing of the

lead poisoning of arch kremlin critic alexina valmy we got these rumbling on to after the reported poisoning of opposition politician alex enough on the many demanded of hot construction of the north stream too so despite the fact that sanctions usually 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 political weapons that 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 international pressure will only continue to grow sounds good for the brain actually do for chinese officials one organization named shamed and sanctioned britain's foreign secretary domingo are the so worried about the way years 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. 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 a pipeline which brings lots of lovely cheap gas international solidarity is pretty much always for 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 w m d 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 hours they don't just have to sit back and take them on the chin any more china has now issued saying and the main foreign policy

decision making body and this china has slapped sanctions on british individuals and organizations beijing retaliated china sanctioned you know 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 now. the times are changing sanctions may no longer be a one way street. some think about but even america's allies know the threat is sanctions hanging over them the u.s. secretary of state is warned german companies involved in russia's nordstrom to gas pipeline to europe also respond will tease we 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 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 sputnik v is a high quality vaccine comparable in its quality to other vaccines already approved in europe of course 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. the u.s. against missing the 1st of may deadline for pulling its troops out of afghanistan

the militant group says washington will be fully responsible if the violence continues but on thursday joe budden reiterated that getting the withdrawal done on time would be a tough task he said. school be hard to me when there's light. use in terms of. tactical reasons hard to get those troops out we will leave the question is when we leave there are currently 2500 u.s. troops in afghanistan and that is the lowest number since operations began there in 2001 the taliban insists there's no reason for the pentagon to miss the withdrawal deadline as all tactical issues were settled in a deal signed off by the former president donald trump last year brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition told this washington's reason for not pulling out it's got nothing to do with logistics. the television coverage controls more territory today than it did me 8th. october 8th 2001 so why is the us

trading it's the pentagon and buying they don't want to take responsibility for what might come next and what might come next is the tell of bin routing the existing afghan government in posing 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 biden recognizes the reality that the u.s. cannot win this war taking 2500 troops out of afghanistan by may 1st is. technically in logistically easy biden says otherwise the problem really 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 has been put into place by the americans is very likely to be crushed so the u.s. is in iraq 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 to 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. in a bid for more diversity a u.s. there to scrap the production the cinderella because the cost was too white we believe unapologetically in the changes who are making and we believe that all of our contact guests will follow us on this journey the artistic director of the minnesota production then says the cost was 98 percent white breaking its diversity policies but i've been raised because 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 blouse or ever visit chanhassen dinner theater declaring the diversity cause at a local dinner theater is simply bad business and unnecessary no problem one more

venue to never get my money ever again we are really rivera of the reactionary times online news site says the theaters decision reflects a dangerous development. this whole cancel culture sort of super diversity mafia that's just operating right now is basically what they're doing to meet 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 or let's say there was a play that 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 and that's a selection what we're talking about if you want to kind of hold the conversation of a comment section that. i'm

afshin rattansi we're going on the run for another log on the addition of the steps here in britain to decide what to do as the u.k. continues to have one of the worst coronavirus death rates in the world to be looking at how u.s. president joe biden has been. the corona virus where more people have died than any other with the apollo was host of the jimmy door show but 1st joining me now from cambridge is professor of indra who led the team responsible for the world's 2nd ever patient cured of ever the virus that still affects millions hiv thank you so much and professor good to coming on going underground everyone's talking about vaccines i suppose i've got to ask you given your world famous for cures arguably. will there be a cure for coronavirus anytime soon well it's difficult to say because of course in contrast to each other. in 99 percent of individuals with corona virus kill themselves and they are they clear the virus some.