but u.k. registers a massive rise in attacks on asians reflecting a global trend of scapegoating the community the pandemic. has been such a common thing for so long just. haven't been. taught french minister cries foreign interference over the turkish building of europe's largest mosque. over the role of radical islam at the heart of europe. has been brought in to deal with the 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. cause it's an unintended consequence. of predatory litigation. live from moscow thanks for joining us today here on r.t. international i'm daniel hawkins welcome to the program. hundreds have marched through the city of san francisco calling for an end to violence against asian americans. well the almost 4018 hate incidents recorded in the u.s. last year alone ronny follows this month's shooting rampage in the atlanta area which killed 6 asian women. is part of a global trend and the u.k. anti asian attacks and hate crimes have shut up an astonishing 300 percent of the

supposed to chinese origins of coronavirus being used as a justification. 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 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 and feel a geisha 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 the greatest 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 nod

that's 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 at 1st. i'm a bit worried like every time we hear. expression right 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 aid. 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 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 in everyday life 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 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 unsavory views but now we legitimize. foreign interference so a top french minister has described the country's plans of. mosque in france which

is set to become the used biggest shot at the. top level rouse walking 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 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 that multi 1000000 euro subsidy to the mealie gora's islamic confederation the group but pan-european movement for the turkish diaspora says it's dumbfounded by the right now. because i think that

it is a control for cities that is totally political and it's hard for us to understand the why and the how how the french association or european one which works here in france by the laws of france 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 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. corners openly accuse turkey of getting ready to meddle in next year's elections you have there will be attempts at interference in the next french presidential election i consider this to be on acceptable it's written down the threats are not veiled 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 of the government's handling of the coup crisis meanwhile the authorities in stress books say the funding is contingent on the 1000000 chorus 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 minister of the interior did not issue any warning on this subject the risk of

foreign interference should be addressed whisper season as serious this was local officials can know there is used to this informal exchanges but it wasn't just the interior minister who hate out at the decision to help fund the mosque the minister for citizenship was also scathing tony bennett 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. 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 straws burke has received death threats since the controversy was unleashed for most people here in strasburg the row has moved the political edge. i am against all forms of violence whether physical or psychological but the decision of these grand mayor to finance the turkish association to finance the mosque in

a french city is contradictory it contradicts the secular values of the french republic initially because if you put i think it's a political decision because our region's law has always been like that it has never posed a problem for churches so why does it pose a problem for one mosque the money was potentially given by someone who supports the terms but after wards it becomes a mosque for everyone. yes isn't to fear and perhaps trying to influence the mom's working in france and it's known they have been difficulties between the french and turkish presidents recently 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 an. she moves slim charlotte do you want ski r.t.e. stroudsburg. or if you're in the mood for love this weekend you'd better have

a good phone connection so you can connect or sexual consent which says it can avoid you getting in legal mix ups later down the line the development seems to be straight out of hollywood. ah and i consent to that. pastors are. over the consent application requires users to give approval via their phones it's there was a digital document as proof yet was created in denmark in response to the country criminalizing sex without explicit consent police in australia have already proposed using it to address growing concerns over rate cases predicts those saying it won't solve the real problem and could actually 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 to give consent on 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 what is appropriate you know what it should be accepted in society it's really caught in a lot of confusion especially for the younger generation in brief this weekend hundreds of protesters chanting kill the bill a face off with officers in front of a police station in the u.k. city of boston. thank you i thought i would spare us were made on the latest day of protests against the proposed bill to let law enforcement set time limits on ronnie's police the dogs and pepper spray to disperse the crowd demonstration time violence with people calling eject all out offices. at least 32 people have been killed and more than 100 injured as 2 trains collided in egypt say it happened when the emergency brakes were used on one of the trains the country's rail network has been plagued by accidents often pool maintenance and management.

police have fired rubber bullets and tear gas as hundreds in bangladesh protested the visit of india's prime minister is accused of fighting religious tensions on discriminating against india's muslims demonstrators in muslim majority bangladesh wave shoes and protests and attacked offices. still to come in a predominantly white us suburb council's production because its cost was partly to white and that story still to come off the break. for people america now representation. that's the problem there's nobody in government that represents people who are not part of a multi-millionaire lobbying class who work for banks who print money for themselves. to the can tell them back in this year printing money for yourself and

getting from they 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 having fun i knew you would buy big one for 10 years like we've been saying and. you do without than 1520000000 pounds even if you started with 5 or 6000. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only move really exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

to the program china slapped sanctions on british individuals and entities for spreading lies and this information saying there was allegation for similar moves against beijing by the e.u. u.k. u.s. and canada now western leaders of accuse the beijing of human rights abuses against its we go muslim minority with washington even claiming genocide the us says china is holding the members of the ethnic minority unlawfully in detention centers something beijing strongly denies saying the camps of the region cation purposes and to combat terrorism. someone writes says nowadays this is how to protect politics operate. international sanctions or in other words american launched economic weapons and it's growing over countries that washington doesn't like her it's 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 crackdown on 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 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 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 the us 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 international pressure will only continue to grow sounds good for the brain actually do for chinese officials one organization they did 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 take 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. 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 anymore 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. our supposed to work beijing is apparently willing to sacrifice a huge trade deal is signed with europe movie things going to suffer more from now . the times are changing sanctions may no longer be a one way street. well even america's allies the threat of sanctions hanging over them the u.s. secretary of state has warned german companies involved in russia's north stream to get into europe also risk penalties and 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 gives society and all of us more security sputnik the can

certainly also make a valuable contribution to this. but thought about it as one the united states against missing the 1st of may deadline for pulling out its troops at the militant group says washington will be fully responsible if the violence continues on further though joe biden the redeployed to getting the withdrawal done on time would be a tough task scoobie hard to meet me would. use the terms of. tactical reasons hard to get those troops out we will leave the question is when we . well there are currently around 200000 u.s. troops in afghanistan the lowest number since operations began in 2001 that's what about 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 for president dole trumper last year brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition says washington's reason for not pulling out has nothing

to do with logistics the television coverage controls more territory today than it did me. over $82001.00 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 teller been 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 and logistically easy biden says otherwise the problem really is that the us 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 u.s. comes to its senses and leaves. of it for more diversity u.s. theaters scrapped a production of cinderella because the cost was apparently too white. we believe unapologetically in the changes were making and we believe this all of her work and how did guests will follow us on these journey all the artistic director of the minnesota production says the cast was 98 percent white breaking its diversity policies are as they have been raised as the company is based in a suburb that is 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 card at a local dinner theater is simply bad business and are necessary no problem one move venue to never get my money ever again who are of the reactionary times online news site is the 3rd is the solution 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 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 or just say that was a play that somehow was cast that let's say that they were in

a black neighborhood it was a 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 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 because a report next looking back at the alaska summit on what's next for the u.s. china relationship we're back in off an hour join us again that. the world is driven by.

sinks. we here to ask. max kaiser this is the kaiser report let's check in with stacey hey max well you know one of the things we were warning about was if they said it is trap and that's the rising power overtakes the declining power and all of the last 18 times i think it's like 16 have been very let's say aggressive like they haven't

ended so well and looking at the 2 cities trap coming real as we see the interactions between the biden of ministration and chinese delegations around the world and especially in terms of trade policy you know last week they were the u.s. officials said that china was being aggressive seeking economic domination which just sounds like capitalism right like they're they're providing goods and services that people won and this is considered now economic domination so i'm going to read this tweet from a former diplomat from portugal and when he looked at what happened at the alaska sama where his review of the situation was especially in terms of u.s. secretary of state blank him it just seems that blinken was not really prepared and was taken by.