the u.k. registers a massive rise in attacks on asians reflecting a global trend of scapegoating the community for the part that makes. it illegal resisting has been such a common thing for so long just a blend of her own of paris and we're just you know we also feel. a top french minister across foreign interference of the turkish building of europe's largest mosque deepening toxic rhetoric over the role of radical islam at the heart of europe. is concerned up sprawled in to deal with growing global rules criminalizing intercourse without explicit approval. we're trying to use technology to protect women instead of teaching that respect the right one

because it's unintended consequences. for predatory litigation. are they good afternoon from moscow to the weekend live from our world news center here got the latest for you for next half hour. first this hundreds of march through central san francisco calling for an end to violence against asian americans. almost 4008 incident 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. meantime anti asian attacks and hate crimes are shot up an astonishing 300 percent

with the supposed chinese origins of coronavirus being used as a justification. to reports. 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 brought 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 comments 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 know that such a shame that so sad what you're saying that you just hate that people are saying so much sometimes that you have to just talking to a brick wall or sometimes you can try to see as much as you want but if they're 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 they're 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 that 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 a 1st. time of people were really like every time we hear. expression right i have definitely experienced racism throughout my life. and 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 a. i've 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 us and even the things that have been happening in the u.k. you know that that was 300 times more incidents happening now is it 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 that i 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 they should be everyone is matter and lives matter to use 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 unsavory views of now we legitimize. foreign interference is our top french minister has described the country's plan for the mosque in france said become the biggest. reports on

a top level rose sparking poisonous claims by 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 known it's my controversy that's off to a grant with 2500000 euros was approved by the local authorities to a muslim group behind the mosque the brewing then began the interior minister hit out at strasburg officials saying that they were sustaining with foreign interference he's the state prefect to oppose the multi 1000000 euro subsidy to the new league or its islamic confederation the group pan-european movement for the turkish diaspora says it's dumbfounded 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 a european one which works here in france by those of france that 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 seeing political islam and committing to french values. it's a charter that was not discussed not by the federation not by the most not by muslims it's a chance at 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 corn 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 and i consider this to be on acceptable it's written down the threats are not availed of 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 of the government's handling of the coup 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 elisei about the row the middest of the interior did not issue any warning on this subject the risk of foreign interference should be addressed with procedure and seriousness was local officials

can know the reduced to this informal exchanges. but it wasn't just the interior minister who hates out at the decision to help fund the mosque the minister for citizenship was also scathing to knit but this is not the 1st time that mayors of the french green party are on the ferry sleeper slow to radical islam as that was a step too far for us so. he cannot take advantage of his position as minister to demonize his opponents otherwise it negates the democratic debate we're still he said the mayor of stress has received death threats since the controversy was unleashed for most people here in strasburg the row has moved the political edge shaken. everyone has the right to their beliefs whatever the 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 this 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 will we know there were also big problems between micro and recently i wouldn't be surprised if there were some session on against. 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.

stroudsburg. this question of the week in the mood for love well you'd better have a good phone connection so you can connect to a sexual consent up which says it can avoid getting in legal make subs later down the line development straight into hollywood. god can send to the us. that's. why stars are. the can set up location requires users to give approval via their phones it stores the digital document as proof the uk was created in denmark then in response to the country criminalizing sex without explicit consent police in the story level ready proposed using it to address growing concerns of a rape cases the critics say won't solve the real problem and 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 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 app to be helpful if you 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 consider could 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 vulnerable to raising the

bar of thinking why it is appropriate in order to be accepted in society it's really caught in a lot of confusion especially from the younger generation. in brief this weekend hundreds of protesters chanting kill the bill of faced off with offices in front of a police station in the south southwestern u.k. city of bristol. i knew most arrests were 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 that officers i least 32 have died and more than 100 have been injured after 2 cranes a trains 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 off and poor management and maintenance. police have fired rubber bullets and tear gas as hundreds of bangladesh protested the visit of india's prime minister he's accused of heightening religious tensions in discriminating against india's muslims demonstrators in the muslim majority bangladesh wave shoes in protest and attacked offices. coming up a fair trade a predominantly white us suburb council's a production because its cost was too white after the 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 on all sides very dramatic developments only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

again china slap sanctions on british individuals and entities for quote spreading allies in this information it's a retaliation for similar moves against paging by the e.u. u.k. u.s. and canada western leaders have accused beijing of human rights abuses against his minority with washington even claiming genocide the u.s. says china is holding members of the ethnic minority unlawfully in detention centers something beijing has strenuously denied along the way saying those camps in fact of reeducation purposes and to combat terrorism i see someone right says nowadays this is how to fatah 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 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 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 kremlin critic alexina valmy we got these rumbling on to just a 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 government's 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 in the us flag even in the e.u.

in canada sanction china is still a sleepy joe biden holding their hands or sniffing their sanctions are ultimately geopolitical 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 silent in terms of speaking out about these human rights abuses the international pressure will only continue to grow sounds good actually do for chinese officials what organization they did sanction. britain's foreign secretary domingo obvious so worried about the way years along with the e.u. that they've sanctioned for chinese people out of a population of 1400000000 dominic roberts corner secretly take last week actually supporting increased trade with china so. 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 gas pipeline. carrying 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 always for sale the reason that worked in the past is because the u.s. 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 counterpart. 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 i'm 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 here the times are changing sanctions may no longer be a one way street. and it seems even america's allies in the throes of sanctions are going over them the u.s. secretary of states want german companies involved russia's nordstrom to grasp to europe also risk penalties we've got reaction from a lawmaker with the german social democratic party.

the immunity a little bit of 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 in 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 for working 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 are good 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 the 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 the society and all of us more security sputnik the can certainly also make a valuable contribution to this. the taliban's war the us 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 biden reiterated that getting the withdrawal done on time would be a tough. this could be hard to read to me when. i use the terms of. tactical reasons for it to get those troops out we will leave the question is when we. there are currently 2500 u.s. troops in afghanistan that's the lowest number since operations began there in 2001 the taliban insists there's no reason for the pentagon to mess that 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 us washington's reason for not pulling out has got nothing to do in fact with logistics. the television cover controls more territory today than it did me 8th. october 8th 2001 so why is the us trading its be 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 in posing a full out complete taliban government so the us 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 us cannot win this war taking $2500.00 troops out of afghanistan by may 1st is obviously. technically in logistically easy biden says otherwise

it probably is that the u.s. kicked him 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 us 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 want it now and 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 us comes to its senses and leaves. in a bit or diversity want us there to screw up to production of said the relative because the cast 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 well the artistic director of the minnesota production says the cast was 98 percent white breaking therefore it's diversity policies but i've been raised as the

company's based in a suburb that's overwhelmingly white making it hard to fill racial quotas and signal to the firestorm on social media. i will screw up my ever visit chanhassen dinner theater declaring the diversity card at a local dinner theater is simply bad business necessary no problem one move venue to never get my money ever again. rivera of the reactionary times online news site told us the theaters decision 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 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 they somehow was cast that let's say that they were in a black neighborhood where the story takes place you know and within black characters are we going to force them to cast white actors playing black people it just 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. so far who are going to vote for the conversation check in congo the comment section for now from a good weekend. the

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