hello there i'm going to try and your watching in question broadcasting from our to america's national news headquarters in washington d.c. here tonight's top stories 1st a new global poll reveals who the world believes is the biggest threat to democracy the answer may surprise you were discussing class new research suggests that had her spray is way more harmful than we originally thought talk about that and finally the biggest awards night for international sports is here who are this year's winners that's straight ahead all right it's time to improve your news i q.

all right so which country is the biggest threat to democracy well according to a new poll commissioned by the alliance of democracies foundation it's neither china or russia so who could it possibly be r.t.s. alex myla bitch has that answer. the land of the free. form of the brave was the world's biggest threat to democracy america is on the move again we're choosing hope over fair shoot over lies light over darkness however working for work again we're dreaming again we're discovering again i want to do the world again i got to prove it some ocracy can deliver for the people and it's that delivering of democracy that scares a lot of people around the globe in a poll known as the democracy perception index which is commissioned by the

alliance of democracies foundation and was conducted by the la 10 a polling company between february and april 50000 people in 53 countries were asked which country threatens democracy in their country nearly half of the respondents who took the survey named the u.s. as the greatest threat while fear of chinese influence came in at 38 percent and russian at 28 percent and it's not surprising that the countries which showed as overwhelmingly negative about u.s. influence include russia and china and there may be a reason for that american leadership must meet this new moment inventing authoritarianism including a growing ambitions of china to rival the united states in the determination of russia however european democracies also stood out as overwhelmingly negative about u.s. influence with german sentiment being particularly high globally 81 percent of people polled said that it is important to have democracy in their country but just over

a half 53 percent said that their country is actually democratic today even in democracies so who actually believes that they live in a democracy those polled in denmark switzerland and or way are most confident that their country. our democratic and what may be a surprise to many people in china where 71 percent say that their country has the right amount of democracy and as for what is perceived as the biggest threat to democracy economic inequality was the number one choice at 64 percent at 48 percent just under half of the people in the survey also cited big tech as a threat with americans being most concerned about that issue at 62 percent the chair of the alliance of democracies foundation former nato chief and danish prime minister anders fogh rasmussen said this poll shows that democracy is still alive in people's hearts and minds we now need to come out of the covert 1000 pandemic by

delivering more democracy and freedom to people who want to see their countries become more democratic resolution might have missed an important point in the survey and that is that the participants made it quite clear that they don't want to mark receive delivered to them but instead would rather see more equality in the world to make things more democratic the democracy perception index survey has been conducted since 2018 by law tena and the alliance of democracies it is the world's largest annual study on how people perceive democracy for t m i look smile of it and for more on this will bring in our panel to discuss former u.k. m.p. george galloway and new york times bestselling author president of the phyllis schlafly evil for him and martin gentlemen good to see you again 1st i think of 3 countries 53000 participants when asked about a number of issues threatening democracy i think agree or disagree the biggest

agree was on economic inequality most people surveyed agreed about that but when asked what country threatens democracy the most between the u.s. china and russia the respondents agreed the u.s. was the bigger threat so why. do you say to that george. or the scottish national poor robert burns said the greatest if the god could give us is to see ourselves as other c.e.o.'s and that i think will have come as a big shock to some people in the united states how others see you you see when joe biden's up there are somewhat hesitantly because of his advancing whatever is telling us america's on the move again the rest of us are hiding under the table manila the idea of america's on the move again and coming our way is not something that we look forward to look the united states has invaded and occupied some 60

countries since the 2nd world war or about her own governments and presidents even killed some. have taken over from us that's what we used to do and that's why i think if there was a 2nd place there are russia and china britain might have come up on the list too and i'll let you respond. well i want to quote enforce our rise in defense of america unquote the old george m. cohan in yankee doodle dandy over there over there the yanks are coming over there you know what we had in the last 4 years as a president who finally turned the american party system away from wars a way we're seeing it right now we're playing liz cheney one of the cheney family is being forced out of politics because the american people agree with the world that our ideas that we were going to plant democracy in other places it wasn't just

imperialism it was stupidity but i you know that poll to me smacks of what the europeans like to do when they like to talk about what's a threat who's it's right and here comes the big bad wolf that's a threat i will say this that one per day or of the threats of democracy in the world is a 3 letter word and it's seen. and then when you watch c.n.n. in every airport and hotel in europe or in asia or in america you see fake news like we've never seen you see racial strife in writing america is doing great in many ways the inequality economically and inequality of education is a problem but here's the great news i think the news is that we're all starting to agree big tech big media and big government are bullying the basics of the american vision and that's what most people want the world is more about the american system but the vision of more freedom freedom of speech freedom of association so well i'm not surprised that the survey results because i think really c.n.n. and big tech does so much damage to everyone and added i'm going to stick with you

on this one i'll give you the 1st crack what about democracy in the time of cove it those surveyed seem to agree that what their governments their respective governments have done during the pandemic eroded democracy limiting freedoms. well i think that's right i think there was a lot of fear but i you know and people one people fear is one of the greatest and most dangerous motivators in politics and i we've seen it in history and we've seen it in the last year and look in america we've had a 2nd listen leaders under trump and under biden it continues scientists who say they know everything and then they turn out to know very little but the seer is a real problem but again i would go back to the damage that you know and r.t. america in ours in the united states plays a role in actually people tell me all the time they let people talk you actually have a discussion our news here is just about see your mongering the model of american cable news is see here fear fear sarma commercial fear fear fear pharma commercial

and they make a book by the way fox news does it too and the question is after a year of that we have mostly a brainwashed nation that is fearful so that part of democracy is failing but that again you know we muddle through this and in america we're seeing more and more americans take control of their lives instead of letting bureaucrats dominate george what about that has your country stifled your democracy. well it depends you see in an existential threat situation like say the 2nd world war when hitler was the channel ports and brunson ready to invade us everyone was behind the government behind the state and they trust that what the state said our problem know is that when our government tell us that it sunshine outside woohoo to the wind or to check. and i think that's true in your country too are both of our

states and many others have lost the cross credibility with the people so when they say you have to wear a mask you have to get a job you have to surely but you have had a job and so on if people really trust the government which they do in. the much maligned china then people do it because they feel that their government is on their side the problem is in our countries many people feel the government is not on their side and they are more wrong about the gas and churn and this survey also revealed specifically here. well i think the american people have shown great person because to did that because that is the biggest looming threat to democracy in western countries the power all by i need a number of all the guards who shop even the president of the united states of

america lose done by a handful of an elected billionaires and house nor resurface i don't know a girl trump is alive or dead i haven't gone to here in january or one trust saw him every day all day but for the power of big of big media there's a lot of ruin in martin's life and. better different people are on the we're on the same mark ad what about as well i want to frame up your clothes or you've got you could have burns let me quote twain you know rip reports of my dad's are greatly exaggerated that's what donald trump said i think he's kicking hard no let me just say let me say very clearly listen to this watch what happens how big tech dominates hillary clinton spends 4 years saying that 2016 election was stolen that's what she said illegitimate based on russia russia russia all the proof and

never put in all the proof said no donald trump said the election was irregular and big tech shuts him down and takes away twitter and facebook and everything else you don't have to pick what side you like to recognize that power and big tech i call it the narrative machine big tech and big media with big government behind it we've never seen anything like this that's happening in the world and in america we're feeling it every day we get chased him there in there by george floyd and liz cheney and everything else meanwhile the fundamentals of our country immigration education all are falling to pieces and so the narrative machine is dominating democracy i'm not sure it's a democracy if it continues the way it's going absolutely i think we can all 3 of us agree on now and george galloway i admire and good to see you gentlemen again thank you. thank you. tragic news coming out of idaho where a 6th grade girl is now in custody after shooting 2 classmates and and with a handgun she concealed in her backpack the shooting occurred at rigby middle

school earlier today where students were quickly evacuated to a neighboring high school all 3 victims sustained non-life threatening injuries thankfully a teacher was able to disarm the young girl before turning her over to law enforcement authorities are now investigating a motive and how the 6th grader obtained that firearm. and still ahead president biden is supporting the move to waive vaccine patent rights as cases are hitting record highs abroad but how is this decision sitting with a suitable company as that's coming up and later the sports h.q. regina hamm has the full list of the 2021 laureus sports awards winners and remember to keep up with all the latest news or catch up with anything you might have missed download the portable t.v. apps you can watch us whatever you want we'll be right back.

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a company in the environmental business ends up polluting a river that causes chancer and other illnesses they put all that health risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every week and you know what they're working. guys and i made a professional powerpoint to show you how artsy america fits into the greater media landscape is not laughter all right we are a solid alternative to the. liberal or conservative and as you can see his bar graph we don't skew the facts either the talking head lefties talking at righties oh there you go above it all to look at world r.t. america is in the spotlight now greatly admired have no idea how to classify and actually took me way more time and i care to admit.

as protests emerged nationwide over the death of george floyd last summer the repeated use of tear gas against demonstrators was alarming a lot of people and now new research questions if it's even more harmful than previously thought potentially affecting those most vulnerable of contracting the chronic virus r t correspondent natasha suite has more on why some are so concerned. yes a after george floyd was killed by a minneapolis police officer last may do the protests continue throughout the nation all summer long unrest lingered and in some cases peaceful protests turned into riots some of the worst scenarios buildings were even set ablaze to take control over the chaos police officers and even the national guard was ordered to using tear gas when many demonstrators came out to stand up for what they believed in a few of the enrollee ones escalated the events for the entire crowd your research coming out of the university of minnesota medical school found that exposure to

chemicals and tear gas can have long term physiological and mental health effects. the other issue medical students discovered was the lack of studies looking into the long term impact tear gas has an overall health the health issues among those sprayed with tear gas varies everything from a lung damage blindness miscarriage her failure to even death according to dr steven miles at the university of minnesota in a covert time the last thing you want to do is cause an inflammatory reaction inside the lungs that may be long lasting you're looking at video from 2011 of a former u.c. davis police officer spraying campus protesters with pepper sprayed after the footage went viral the former officer said he suffered from depression and anxiety he received 38000 dollars in workers' compensation he was put on paid administrative leave for 8 months he was then fired in 2012 but protesters aren't the only ones getting hit with a chemical agents federal authorities releasing video last week from the attack on

the capital back on january 6th police officer brian said nick died prosecutors walk back their initial statements at the substance he was sprayed with was bear spray now they believe it was pepper sprayed and the boston city council approved a measure that would limit the use of tear gas pepper spray and other crowd control agents among police in new orleans man days said on scene supervisor must a trauma that no other methods of deescalation will be successful before the point . 2 separate warnings 2 minutes apart must be given by the supervisor and they are to announce exactly which type of weapon they will be dispersed reporting for in question are. over to the latest 19 numbers worldwide those cases topping 155000000 with about 3000000 reported deaths the us is still leading the way with the most confirmed cases over 32000000 of them here followed by india and the brazil and here stateside the death toll at about 579000 now.

and the c.d.c. is now setting rules for cruise ships to hit the high seas once again on wednesday officials gave ship operators final technical guidelines to begin trial boyages in july these trips will assess whether ships can sail safely during this pandemic cruises will run from $2.00 to $7.00 days and will include volunteers ships must have enough passengers to meet at least 10 percent ship capacity. and the biden administration is siding with some world leaders regarding the us pharmaceutical industry the president announced he's supporting a proposal to waive international patent protections for covert vaccines the move comes after corona virus infections served to their highest levels and countries that have struggled to distribute vaccines trinity chavez has more on the story. president biden along with other world leaders are supporting the world trade proposal to waive intellectual property protections for kovan 1000 vaccines citing

an urgent need to stem the pandemic we take intellectual property incredibly seriously and we also though are in the midst of a historic global pandemic which requires a range of creative solutions and we're looking at it through that prism the waiver would clear a hurdle for vaccine strapped countries to manufacture their own vaccines even though the patents are privately held u.s. trade representative catherine tai said in a statement this is a global health crisis and the extraordinary circumstances of the cove in 1000 pandemic call for extraordinary measures the administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections but in service of ending this pandemic supports the waiver of those protections for covert $1000.00 vaccines at least $100.00 nations including hard hit india and south africa pushed for the waiver india with just about 2 percent of its population vaccinated the country is now the epicenter of the crisis and is struggling to keep up with the mounting death toll reported

out of the region and i've often wondered things that are very different people are dying yet still though pharmaceutical companies oppose the proposal saying the waiver won't provide the short term results proponents think it will partly because of the challenge of complicating the production and manufacturing of vaccines you know genuine. is. the well intended will lead to the slow down production i know some of that among the best we need. for the future is going to be continued variants the long standing argument of lifting patents and other intellectual property has reignited as the pandemic continues to ravage many poor and middle income countries wealthy countries currently account for more than half of the nearly 9000000000 doses that have been pre-purchased to date. meantime while the journal says that it plans to have a 3rd booster shot for its trudeau's faxing available by the fall for literary data

of the shot shows promising i'm you respond seconds variance 1st identified in brazil and south africa reporting a new york trinity child as archie. google is now giving its employees more options for when where and how often they'll go back to the office later this year the company announced wednesday that employees worldwide can keep working remotely until september after that they can decide to go back to their original office or an office in a different city and for some workers whose rules allow for it they can choose to permanently work from anywhere google's c.e.o. says he expects 20 percent of workers to do just that another 20 percent to choose a different city with about 60 percent of those staying put in their prepared demick office. and take a look here space x. recently launched and successfully landed its star ship for the 1st time on wednesday the ship is the same one you on last hopes to land astronauts on the moon

and send people to mars with the previous 4 test flights ended in explosions this one. let's head over to regina hamm the sports h.q. now regina we have a full rundown of this year's virtual laureus sports awards we do because a treasure on laureus words words what a little different red carpet a massive party is all very no gathering of some of that somebodies in sports world but today from soviets they in those nominated for these last resorts gathered in a different way to accept their win and share how they give back to make sport for good so we'll sort of sports of the year test station i mean i was to osaka 12 u.s. open titles in 3 years including last year's and 2020 and on the court to push the boundaries of sport off of it though she demonstrated incredible activism and support for the black lives matter movement during around the flushing meadows of soccer war different mask every match featuring him of a black victim of racial violence in the united states. who is like a powerhouse as the baron well they are in their 2nd world team of the year award

after winning an unrivaled sextuplet of buddhist league people call you a 5 champion to answer cup fever club world cup do you have dealt super gup pretty much everything the variance could possibly wind past season german club beat out the can't city chiefs and receivers to trust formula one team argentina's men's rugby team and the los angeles lakers for the top honor moving to breakthrough of the year that belongs to all can see she is patrick mahoney the quarterback of just 24 led the chiefs to their 1st super bowl in 50 years while holmes also won the m.v.p. award for his 1st super bowl performance and became the only african-american the 2nd time to ever win that award away from the field my home supports 15 community children's projects of this foundation 15 and my homey is and was part of the n.f.l. athletes pressure group that led the league to examine its behavior towards racism and political protest and well 7 this year we debuted a new war of the athlete advocate of the year given a mercedes from a and driverless hamilton he took an e during every going to prevent the mercedes cars were painted black with

solidarity with hamilton's commitment to diversity the 7 time formula one champion outspoken his support for racial justice wearing a black lives matter race helmet and suit hands and also in the sportsman of the year where the last year and for those who support him he asked them to keep shining their light and keep fighting for equality now or sporting inspiration award this year goes to liverpool's most allow not only one of the most prolific goalscorers in soccer he's been a mass support of various causes for many of his own time in egypt he's also a powerful advocate of women's equality in the middle east and was named by time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. when it comes to the laureus sports men in the ward many names are up for this year's honor like buying is robert lewandowski and the lakers of bron james won the clay dust cleared if you see where i'm going with this one that one of tenses brightest stars came out on top and on the same day the spaniard reach a quarter finals of the madrid open rafi on a doll was named the 2021 laureus. it's another year he was the nominee 4 times winning his 1st award 0 a decade ago in 2011 nidal won the french open in

a covert impacted 2020 year on the a.t.p. calendar that was his 13th persian trophy at roland garros he also made his 20th grand slam obviously with that win becoming the 2nd player in history to achieve that amazing feat after swiss test great roger federer and a doll had some thoughts when accepting the award on all that he's accomplished and his fellow nominees take a listen. means a lot to me to receive this amazing there are a few i want to say thank you very much from the bottom of my heart to the loudest academy i had some amazing competitor. next to me so i went door to congratulate at the same time. in manila billie jean king one of tennis's great spurs to break the gender barrier in the sport she won the war is a lifetime achievement award and interestingly enough niamey osaka 'd thanked her in her speech for all the great all grow it's the warriors honors the best in that is the best time of the year for us here at r.t.e. and everybody fears horse and you get to see what good these athletes do on and off

of their field of choice i also love to see the athletes in their regalia on the horde because like naomi osaka looks so beautiful in her that stunning shimmery dress like her hair all pulled back like usually they're like sweaty and you know i call growth on the field or but they look all fantastic off the field and my fear moment was when we got the chance to attend trying to for the 1st time we got to wear sneakers which you had all these people dressed up in suits and then bottoms you got some sneakers sponsors just like banks are about regina that's going to do it for us right now make sure you keep up with everything in question at all times by downloading the portable t.v. apps you can watch it whenever you want calling a twitter instagram i know a chance thanks for watching your back there soon.

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