well for i think we're part of a thirst for. the u.k. and america see a massive rise in attacks on asian people reflecting a global trend of scapegoating community for the pandemic. if you like asian racism has been such a common thing for so long just high high up when the pronoun fires happen we're just also human you know we also feel. it top french minister cries at foreign interference over the funding of a huge mosque in strasbourg that is getting cash from the city council and turkish backers. and a sex consent opposite 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 of the woman's body because it's an unintended consequence is open to good for predatory litigation. or broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our chief international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us hundreds have marched through central san francisco calling for an end to violence against asian americans. almost 4000 anti asian hate 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 a part of a global trend in the u.k. and asian attacks and hate crimes have shot up an astonishing 300 percent with the

presume the chinese origin of the corona virus being used as justification 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 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 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 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 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 say as much as you want but if they're not going to listen you can't convince some 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 guards are riding a bike and. me you know maybe still some people things of viruses come from china but everyone in china will suffer too so i don't think that 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 my people were like every time i remember. 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 asian. 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 case just how i when coronavirus happen so it becomes more worse in my opinion it's it's been always there. and for me i just have to be careful in every day that i 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 it should be everyone it's matter and lives. 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 so casual comments here and there it's always sort of been bubbling underneath the surface it's just that it's taken carve it in a way to shops defy that racism so the big kids however mistakenly feel that their unsavory views have now we legitimize. foreign interference that is how our top french minister has described

a plan by the city of strasbourg to partially fund a turkish mosque there are 2 shoulda been reports on the top level faceoff sparking 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 ordered 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 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 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 accused 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 and i consider this to be on acceptable it's written down the threats are not veiled because 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 course islamic confederation reaffirming its commitment to the values of the french republic they've also complained directly to the elisei about the rise. the minister of the interior did not issue any warning on this subject the risk of foreign interference

should be addressed to mr season as serious this was local officials can know the 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 the ferry sleeper slow 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 straws burke has received death threats since the controversy was unleashed for most people here in strasburg the row has moved the political edge. 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 ever one reason. is interfere and perhaps try it in 1st 3 months of working in france and it's known there 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 or project that it thinks could threaten french values the more it's opening itself up to allegations of being an. charlotte do you will ski out see strasburg. are in the mood for

love well you better have a good phone connections so you can connect to a sexual consent app which says it can avoid you getting in legal mix ups later down the line the development is straight out of hollywood. ah and i consent was. was the stars are. in a move towards addressing growing concerns over rape cases a police commissioner in australia has already proposed using such an app while in denmark there was a recent change in the law that makes explicit consent to sex mandatory and they have an app for that that there as well i consent requires users to give approval through their phones and stores the digital document as proof but critics say the technology will not solve the real problem and 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 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 sense the issue that we want to use technology to keep up with the times that unfortunately it doesn't do enough to actually protect a woman's right to choose and have autonomy over her body intimate relationships i think technology should be completely and totally removed because it's unintended consequences and opens the gates for predatory litigation it causes so many problems that you would not even want to even start to think about heaven and what we're trying to use technology to protect women instead of teaching men that they need to respect the right of a woman's body to make a decision we're just teaching men try to do not 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 a sense you know before the sexual encounters did you can stick after the sexual can encounter do you continue to give consent that's one thing but at the same time wanting to take this app 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

especially because of social media children are especially vulnerable 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. around the globe to look at some other stories in brief this weekend mean maher has seen its deadliest day of unrest since the military coup there in february more than 100 protesters across the country were reportedly killed by security forces as crowds rallied against the rule of the army many were reportedly shot in the head or back in the youngest victim is believed to be 5 years old that takes the total number of deaths since the coup to more than $400.00. hundreds of protesters turned out in the french city of non on the so-called housing action day demonstrators demanded a stop to forced evictions and the elimination of unfair conditions on the property

market the police were forced to use tear gas to disperse the rally similar protests have been taking place in other cities across europe as well. the drone has captured a spectacular volcanic eruption in iceland you can see some of the amazing shots here views from the top as well as lava flows pouring down the mountainside volcano located near iceland's capital reykjavik began erupting last week after being silent for nearly 800 years fortunately the renewed activity has not put any communities in danger. in the program the feeder in a predominantly white u.s. suburb cancels a production because its cast was quote white much more after a short break this is our international. media a reflection of reality. in

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time time to sit down and talk. welcome back this is r t international now china has slapped sanctions on british individuals and entities for quote spreading lies and disinformation it is retaliation for similar moves against beijing by the e.u. britain the us and canada western leaders have been accused or accusing beijing of human rights abuses against its weaker muslim minority with washington even claiming genocide us says china is holding members of the ethnic minority unlawfully in detention centers something beijing strongly denies saying that the camps are for reeducation purposes and to combat terrorism r.t. on one commentator simon wright takes a swipe at the took for tat politics at play. 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 over the jailing in 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 heart construction of the north stream to 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 it 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 silent in terms of 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 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 liquefy it 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 no values well being doesn't extend to shutting down a pipeline which brings lots of lovely cheap gas international solidarity is pretty much always for sale 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 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 powers they don't just have to sit back and take them on the chin anymore china has now issued saying i'm the main foreign policy decision making body and this china has slapped sanctions on british individuals and organizations beijing retaliated china sanctioned. our supposed to work beijing is apparently willing to sacrifice a huge trade deal is signed with europe movie thing is going to suffer more from now yet the times are changing sanctions may no longer be a one way street. britain's hospitality industry has fired back at the prime

minister's suggestion that customers who have not received 1000 shard could be banned from bars. i do think that the basic concept of vaccines to the cation should not be totally alien to us maybe up to the individual public the world may be able to in the land look i think it's far too much for a problem if you don't particularly want to have the scene for whatever reason then 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 it would give the landowner 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 i want to go to the point been all the older people are there they will be quite justifiably annoyed in february the government ruled out the option of a covert passport saying it would be discriminatory and there is also pushback within the p.m.'s own party against the ongoing covert restrictions as a whole bunch of really quite draconian measures that were emergency measures been 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. pub owners are outraged by the possibility of another attack on their sector one proprietor we heard from says she's ready to throw in the towel. but the hack is scared when god knows where else how we as cook and so close david letterman i don't know what the sign says that i want

the government sextape to be able to say that was the system we know so good at this is something i hate so. i took everything the right way i think it's ok 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 i'm like how it going to be saddled. by all this up and down it's time for that everything else welcome i don't care what we don't know but this is making an absolute mess and yet again i praise imus is somebody called a longstanding i'm not surprised me out i was absolutely not anything to do with the hospitality she says it's so silly and i think it kind of is art that really should be hospitality sector so i'm glad i don't know who they are. in a bid for more diversity or us theater has scrapped a production of cinderella because the cast was too white we believe on the blue jetta clee in the changes were making and we believe this all of her work and how

did guests will follow on these johnny. the artistic director of the minnesota production says the cast was 98 percent white breaking its diversity policies but eyebrows have been raised as the company is based in a suburb that is overwhelmingly white making it hard to fill racial quotas and it has ignited a firestorm on social media i will screw up my blouse or ever visit chanhassen dinner theater declaring the diversity caught at a local dinner theater is simply bad business and unnecessary no problem one move venue to never get my money ever again who know 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 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 this is 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. before we go russia joined the annual earth our environmental campaign and to demand some

nonessential lights at 8 30 pm local time for about an hour and marks across the country were gradually turned dark including red square in moscow the symbolic effort is organized by the worldwide fund for nature and is designed to raise awareness of ecological problems and climate change the event has already swept across most of the globe with the u.s. east coast set to join in in just a couple of minutes. and that is it for me this hour i'll be back in about 33 minutes with another full and fresh look to stay with us. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the

day or thinks. we dare to ask. humanity has never seen such strange natural phenomena befall giant coming to us appearing in the peninsula. one after another. but never about to blow up again you have us to get you to put you know them does what we thought of it that he warned me of. this one appeared in 2020. how often and where will new crisis appear as i described how dangerous are they for humans from only you. and 2021 russian scientists came quite close to working out what's going on. they built a full scale 3 d.

model of the ya'll black hole. max kaiser this is the kaiser report let's check in with stacey hey max well you know one of the things they were warning about 'd 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 by the end of ministration and the 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 surprise this is not 2000 or even 2010 outcome was not great with

us projecting the meekest of images.