maybe i can be of night. if you're working with another you can be. the u.k. registers a massive rise in attacks on asians reflecting a horrific 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. then we're just also human you know we're all still feel her. french minister cries foreign interference over the funding of a huge mosque in strasburg that's getting cash from the city council. because. of a sex consent has been brought in to deal with the growing global rules criminalizing intercourse without explicit approval. and we're trying to use technology to

protect women instead of teaching that they need to respect the right of a woman because it's unintended consequence opens the gate for predatory litigation . live from moscow thanks for joining us here on r.t. international this evening i'm daniel hawkins welcome to the program. hundreds of march through the city of san francisco calling for an end to violence against asian americans. almost $4008.00 incidents reported in the u.s. last year alone the rally follows this month's shooting rampage in the atlanta area which killed 6 asian women. all of this is part of a global. and just in the u.k.

asian attacks on hate crimes have shot up an astonishing 300 percent with the supposed chinese origins of corner virus 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 there's a fake 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 tell a case big racist asian comments if you care so much you like genuinely 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 i in my campus and i carried a riding a bike and. 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. expression night. 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 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 the asian community is speaking out about it yeah i think it's better because before they just focus 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. in a way to shops defy that racism so the big it is however mistakenly feel that that unsavory views of now we legitimize. using foreign

interference french ministers the scribes of pot funded turkish links mosque in the city. reports on the top level rouse 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 sistering 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 dumb founded 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 a 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 mosques and 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 there will be attempts at interference in the next french presidential election that 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 brooke say the funding is contingent on the milly course islamic confederation reaffirming its commitment to the values of the french republic they've also complained directly to the elisei 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 as seriousness was local officials can know they're reduced 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 a very slippery slope to radical islam as that was a step too far for 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 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. 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. isn't to fear and perhaps trying to influence the mom's work 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.

stroudsburg. now if you're in the mood for love you'd better hope you've got a good phone connection so you can connect to a sexual consent which says it can avoid you getting into legal mix ups later down the line the developments seems to be straight out of hollywood. ah i consent to that. was there is enough. in a move towards addressing growing concerns over rape cases a police commissioner in australia has already proposed using such an up while in denmark there was a recent change in the law that makes explicit consent to sex mandatory and they're going out there for it too and i consent requires used to give approval via their phones and stores the digital documents prove critics though say that that 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 but 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 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 stick to literally the rich 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 what is appropriate you know what it should be accepted in society and it's really caught in a lot of confusion especially for the younger generation and reach this weekend hundreds of protesters chanting kill the bill have faced off with offices in front of a police station in the u.k. city of boston. i. i generously arrests were made on the latest they have a protest against the proposed bill to let law enforcement set time limits on rallies used for dogs and pepper spray to disperse the crowd of the demonstration turn violent people holding projectiles and offices. manned mars seen the deadliest day of on rest since the military coup there back in february over 90 protesters across the country were falsely killed by security forces as

crowds rallied against the rule of the military many reportedly shot in the head or back the youngest victim is believed to be just 5 years old that's the total number of deaths since the coup took over 400. police have fired rubber bullets and tear gas as hundreds in bangladesh protested the visit of india's prime minister is accused of hardening religious tensions and discriminating against india's muslims demonstrators in muslim majority bangladesh waved shoes in protests and attacked offices. still to come a fear in a predominantly white us suburbs cancel the production because its cost was apparently too white that story with us just after the break. is your media a reflection of reality. in

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down and talk. welcome back to the program china's slap sanctions on british individuals and entities for sporting lines and this information it's in retaliation for someone who is against beijing by the e.u. us britain and canada western leaders have long accused brazing of human rights abuses against its muslim majority with washington even claiming genocide and us china is holding the members of the ethnic minority unlawfully in detention centers something waging strongly denies the camps offer reeducation purposes and to combat terrorism. and wright says nowadays this is how to for at politics work. international sanctions or in other words american launched economic weapons and it's growing over countries that washington doesn't like having something of

a purple power 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 who are over the jailing of 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 the 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 of international pressure will only continue to grow sounds good actually do for chinese officials one organization named shame did sanction. britain's foreign secretary 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 dominic 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 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. 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 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 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 sions 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 thing is going to suffer more from. the times are changing sanctions may no longer be a one way street. well even america's allies now have the threat of sanctions hanging over them the u.s. secretary of state has warned german companies involved in russia's nordstrom to gas pipeline to europe but they also risk penalties the reaction from it all make

it with the german social democratic party. unity 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 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 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 gives the society and all of us more security sputnik the can certainly also make a valuable contribution to this. person's hospitality industry is fired back up boris johnson suggestion of customers who hadn't received a cope with 19 job could be banned from pubs. i do think that the basic concept of vaccines to pick a she should not be totally alien to us maybe up to the individual public the world. may be able to into the land look i think it's far too much for a problem if you don't particularly want to have. seen for whatever reason. you people are banned from going to pubs and things like that so i don't agree with that no i think if you're looking to travel abroad i get it because that way you can sort of contain the virus to like one country but just going out to the pub and

stuff. i don't think the handle with too much power to you know at a whim not allow people to go in to have a drink that's quite stressful especially for people who may not be able to get the vaccine maybe they have some health problems that have prevented them from getting it for young people still on the waiting list to get a vaccine and they want to go. pry into your power been all the older people are there they will be quite justifiably annoyed. the government ruled out the option of a covert passport saying they would be discriminatory and there is pushback within the p.m.'s own party against the ongoing restrictions as well as a whole bunch of really quite draconian measures that were emergency measures in place during the pandemic and the government wants to extend them till october 3 months past that deadline and i haven't heard

a single good reason for doing so publicans are outraged by the possibility of another attack on their sector and one business owner we heard from says she's ready to throw the salad. what the heck is going are an issue where else how do we as caucus so close it implemented i don't know i'm not the scientists and i'm not the goldman sachs they have to be able to say that wasn't the system we know so good at this is something i hate whites and i took everything in the right way i think it's all for all the sponsors let's yobs i don't know what we're going to do you know that seems like we're not there we got shot at you've seen people's heads and then look how it's going to be saddened. by all this up and down the spine for their own welcome i don't get why we don't know but this is making an absolute mess yet again great solace is somebody could have a long standing and be you not that it might be out there was absolutely not anything to do with the hospitality sector and we will certainly make the kinds of

that really should be hospitality sector so i'm glad someone who are. in a bid for a more diversity of u.s. theaters scrapped the production of cinderella because the cast was apparently too white we believe on the blue jetta glee in the changes were making and we believe this all of her work and how did guests will follow on these johnny well it is that director of the minnesota productions says the cast was 98 percent white tibet's broken its diversity policy but i've also been raised as the company is based in a suburb but is overwhelmingly white but made it hard to feel racial quotas and 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 of our of the reactionary times online

news site says the theaters this is an 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 or just say there was a play they somehow was cast that let's say that if 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 as you can for going on the ground with afshin rattansi in just a few moments time the team and i are back at 7 pm moscow time that's an awful hour for the latest news updates do join us again then. i'm ashen returns here we're going underground for another log jam edition head of further 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 in part 2 will be looking at how u.s. president joe biden has been coronavirus when 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 as opposed i'm going to ask you given your world famous for cures arguably. will there be a cure for corona virus anytime soon well it's difficult to say because of course in contrast to each other. 99 percent of individuals with corona virus kill themselves and they are they clear the virus sometimes it takes longer for some than others and in many cases people died. in contrast to each i.v. which is a lifelong crank affection sars is slightly different so in terms of curing what we could do is get drugs that can speed up recovery of course and prevent death and i guess that's what we need and the problem is of course. the symptoms very much.