the u.k. and america see a massive rise in attacks on asian people reflecting a global trend of scapegoating the community. has been such a common thing for so long just by. the top french minister cries of foreign interference over the funding of a huge mosque. that is getting cash from the city council. and a sex. to deal with growing. criminalizing intercourse without explicit. we're trying to use technology to protect women instead of teaching. to respect the

rights of the woman because it's an unintended consequence. for predatory litigation. direct from our studios in moscow this is our 2 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. students were recorded in the u.s. last year alone the rally follows this month's shooting rampage in the atlanta area which killed 6 asian women. and the violence is part of a global trend in the u.k. and asian attacks and hate crimes have shot up an astonishing 300 percent with the

presumed chinese origin of the 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 there's a fake shootings in atlanta it's all 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 move 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 tell a case greece is 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 something to recall though sometimes you can try to see as much as he wants but if they're not going to listen you can't convince them of them pinning you just really angry because of so called in 90 some people on the subway. just one time in my campus and the guards are riding a bike and. you know maybe some people things of viruses come from china but everyone in china will suffer too. so i don't think that is i will fault the 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 too. am a bit worried like every time we hear. expression. i have definitely experienced racism throughout my life. i think it's well something it's an important

conversation to be having with people just to raise awareness and it's something i think a lot of asians have always put up with and we just brush aside. so i think it's it's because they're really talking about it now i think what's been happening in the u.s. and even the things that have been happening in the u.k. you know that that was 300 times more incidents happening now is scary and it does make me think twice of going somewhere because i work in health care. there have been cases where patients. don't want to be treated by asian doctors because of the link with the virus. high up when the corona virus happened so it becomes more worse in my opinion it's it's been always there and 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 the asian community is speaking out about it yeah thing 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 you so 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 are these racist attitudes have always existed either through microaggression so casual comment. it's here and there it's always sort of been bubbling underneath the surface and it's just that it's taken. in a way to justify that racism so the bigots however mistakenly feel that unsavory views have now we legitimize. foreign interference that is how a top french minister has described a plan by the city of strasbourg to partially fund

a turkish linked mosque there are reports on the top level face off 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 brooming 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 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 a french association or european one which works here in france by the laws of funds 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 bet 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 and not by muslims it's a chance of that directly concerns muslims and unfortunately muslims and most didn't give their opinions and that's not acceptable. the issue at hand though isn't perhaps so much this mosque but the 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 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 whisper season as serious this was local officials can know they're 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 tony bennett this is not the 1st time that mayors of the french green party are on the very 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 grants may or 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 and afterwards it becomes a mosque for everyone we should. put it that yes here is interfere and perhaps try to in 1st 3 months of 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 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 artsy. in the mood for love

well you better have a good phone connection 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. was consent to that was. 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 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 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 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 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 a sense you know before the sexual encounters if 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 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 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. now just 2 stories in brief this weekend to me and 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 of the rule of the army many were reportedly shot in the head or back 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 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. and here's some

footage for you a drone has captured a spectacular volcanic eruption in iceland you can see some of the amazing shots views from the top as well as lava flows pouring down the mountainside the volcano located near iceland's capital. began erupting last week after being silent for nearly 800 years fortunately the renewed activity has not put any communities in danger. 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 accused beijing of human rights abuses against its weaker muslim minority with washington even claiming genocide the 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 are to be online commentator simon right takes a swipe at the tit 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 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 moslems in china's western province and we have the 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 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 hot construction of the north stream too so despite the fact the sanctions usually

cause more misery to the populations of the countries they're aimed at rather than the governments just ask the venezuelans or the iraqis or the rain ians or the cubans is a long list they're still normally sold as being for humanitarian reasons which is why you always get those sanctions against saudi arabia. generally speaking sanctions come wrapped in a u.s. flag even when the e.u. and canada sanction china is still a sleepy joe biden holding their hands or sniffing their sanctions are ultimately d.-o. political weapons are equal parts flexible and hypocritical you can really you know out about these human rights abuses the international pressure will only continue to grow sounds good actually do for chinese officials one organization they did sanctioned britain's foreign secretary the so worried about the way goes 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 their current. 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. monetary and 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 sale the reason the 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 are 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 any more china has now issued saying and the main foreign policy decision making body and this china has slapped sanctions on british individuals and organizations beijing retaliated china sanctioned. 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 year the times are changing sanctions may no longer be

a one way street. but 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 nord stream to gas pipeline to europe all sco risk penalties 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 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 nick d. 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 the society and all of us more security sputnik the can certainly also make a valuable contribution to this. britain's hospitality industry has fired back at the prime minister's suggestion that customers who have not received a covert 1000 shot 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 the manager 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 at the young people still on the waiting list to get a vaccine and i want to go to a point been all the older people are there they will be quite justifiably annoyed in february the government ruled out the option of a covered passport saying it would be discriminatory and there is also pushback

within the p.m.'s own party against the ongoing covert restrictions there's 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 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. off the hack is scaring our industry way out how we as coke and so post it implemented i don't know what the scientists and i want the government sextape to be able to say that was the system we know so good at this and say i hate my guts and i took after everything the right way i think it's ok for all those let's yobs i don't know what we're going to do you know it doesn't seem that we're not that we got shot at you people's had some animal how it's going to be saddened. by

all this often down the science or that everything else meets the welcome i don't get why we don't know how but this is making an absolute mess and yet again i pray thomas is somebody could have a longstanding and be you know sort of my. i was absolutely not anything to do with the hospital to say she's it's so silly and i think it kind of is on the premise of the hospitality sector so i don't know i don't know who got. in a bid for more diversity us theater has scrapped a production of cinderella because the cast was quote too white we believe on the blue jetta clee in the changes making and we believe this all of hollywood and how did guests will follow on these johnny the artistic director of the minnesota production says that 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 cause at a local dinner theater is simply bad business and unnecessary no problem one move venue to never get my money ever again julio rivera of the reactionary times online news site says that 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 in other places. before we go russia joined the annual earth hour environmental campaign and some non-essential lights at 8 30 pm local time for about an hour landmarks across the country were gradually turned dark including red square in moscow the symbolic effort was organized by the worldwide fund for nature and is designed to raise awareness of a collage ical problems and climate change the event has already swept across most

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a lot of welcome to worlds apart having promised to elevate diplomacy as. with both russia and china the 1st u.s. administration is. president biden casually calling his russian counterpart. preaching. has demonstrated vulnerabilities. can diplomacy achieve anything without being diplomatic to discuss that i'm now joined by alexander. out of the department of international relations at the higher school of economics. good to talk to you thank you very much for having the time. now you know.