the, the, me ah, the week sub stories here on our team. china dismisses as political hype and president biden's probe into the origins of cove. it. the lab leak theory is now gaining traction in the media, which had actually rejected it when the trumpet administration made the same claim . the relation of a nation, violet rose faces of firearms of criticism unclosed as face from the youth. the author of passenger jet was forced to make an emergency devotion to min over a hopes and bomb threat. then an opposition activist on board was all of a sudden arrested citizen america back track on the decisions to cut police funding off the crime rates. and the white house declares an epidemic a gun violent ah,

welcome to the sunday program, the weekly here in the international as we come to your life from moscow just after 4 pm on sunday afternoon with highlighting the top stories of the week. and trying to once again, has refuted claims. the corona virus originated from one of the country's labs. it comes off to the us side, is doubling down on efforts to find the source of the pandemic advances. saskia taylor now investigates. remember donald trump and his administration's take on the corona virus, the chinese virus comes lose. the china, a virus calling, journeys flew to china flu. there's enormous evidence that that's where the spaghetti, remember 10 has a history of infecting the world. and they have a history of running sub standard laboratories. these are not the 1st times that

we've had a world exposed to virus as a result of failures in a chinese lab. remember how his theory about the virus escaping from a lab with labeled racist and mad. a wall won't stop a virus, racism won't stop a virus. do your job? well, it turns out now it's not racist, but a totally rational ferry. why? because it's not trump peddling it all you this year fresh and the full office bite . and let me shut down a trump era top secret operation to log in to the origins of the pandemic. and specifically, whether the virus leaked from the woo hon institute of fi, rolla, g, q, his own altering off a report into the origins of the pandemic. with the lovely one of the top 2 fairies, which is much more valid because fight and are not trump or to that i've no off the intelligence community to redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information

that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion and report back to me in 90 days, and just as quickly as biden decided that it's not racist or not, but the kids summit and in the interests of public safety. so, when for them to lee did others a new york times, jonathan also decided pro, incidentally to delete a previous tweet about the problematic nature of the lab, meek theory and big tech, which month has been binding. any coven conspiracy theories has coincidentally decided to give the neat button a bit of a break in light of ongoing investigation since the origin of covered 19, and in consultation with public health experts, we will no longer remove the claim that covered 19 is men made or manufactured from our apps. in fact, the only one who's actually stuck to its guns is china. lately. some people have played the old trick of political high on the origin,

tracy of covered 19 in the world smear campaign and blame shift. and i'm making a come back. and the conspiracy theory of love league is resurfacing as cool that more transparency from basic got them momentum as the woo hon week theory begins to enter the mainstream. and people pick aside the w h. i has decided to sit on the fence only recently, determining that the hypothesis was highly unlikely, but at the same time can't be entirely ruled out where the virus originated remains to be determined. but one thing is for sure, a theory can todd from conspiracy to credible as quickly as the establishment decides which on trump would probably tweak about if you know you thought twitter. but then again, we're talking about trump. he always finds a way. now everybody's agreeing that i was right when i very early on code one as the source of koby 19, sometimes referred to as the china virus. to me was obvious from the beginning,

but i was badly criticized as usual. now they are all saying he was right, thank you absolutely vindicated. now remember facebook and others still won't allow people in my country to even contest suggest that maybe an election might not be on the up and up. so they're very slow to issue a reprieve. so there must be a lot of evidence for them to go this far. this is a trump victory, and as was stated to bad, he can't speak as to social media as reprieve because they have not allowed him a reprieve from his prohibition on the platform. in the 1st place, a former president, i show that this is another example of the in seen world that we're living in. and instead of people going to joe biden and say, wait a minute, or whoever is running to show today. why are you changing your mind?

oh no, no. we're going to have an investigation into this. you just realize this. now, this is just come to you just, you're just made aware of this. dear god, what else have you just become aware of? i mean it's, it's really frightening. following a huge diplomatic storm over the 4th devotion of a passenger, plaintive bella roof of the country's president, alexander lucas shanker, has been defending the move, claiming no laws were broken. the ryan, a plane, was intercepted by a fighter jet in order to make an emergency landing over a hoax. bomb threat. however, an opposition activist on board was then suddenly arrested on the events of sparked protests in some european cities, members of the russian diaspora rallied alongside locals and support of political prisoners. bella roost, though it says there's no political persecution in the country. the u. s. and the u

. a drawing up coordinated sanctions against members of lucas shank, us government, and both to advise against flying through beller russian space. however, critics question whether the west is in a position to lecture bella rose dante's eagerness. dan off now explains this week, it seems there was no bigger scoundrel in the world than this man. alexander lucas shinkel, the president of bella. ros. that's after a ryan r flight had to make an emergency landing in minsk because of a bomb threat. according to the bill of russian authorities, but there was no bomb. instead, quite conveniently for blood shall go. one of the most outspoken opposition activists, roman pro, to savage. just so happened to be on board. and when he got arrested, the collective west didn't like it. not one bit we strongly condemn the lucca. shanker regimes. brazen and shocking acts to divert a commercial flight in the rest. the journalist, look at saint luke's sancho has done as

a disgrace. that's hard to suppose. here the lights of more than $170.00 passengers were endangered in order to arrest a journalist. the height of the plane on the attention of the passage is it's something that was completed and said to me and we really started discussing the implementation of the secretary over there. but i'm extensions now along with proto savage, his girlfriend was arrested as well. accused of dog saying bell russian security officers essentially calling on lynch mobs to go get them. and one by one e, you, nations began to close the space to barrows, national airline, while europe based carriers in turn refused to fly over the country to russia, england, rashid, we have to understand that this will have severe consequences. and we are looking into sanctions against the ation sector in but i was want to see this cd. we have

decided to prohibit the bell russian airline from accessing european airports to invite europe and airlines and you not to fly over bell russian territory force landing a jet simply so you can extract a political thorn unheard of. except it really isn't because back in 2013 several countries closed of the space to the jet of bolivian president evil morality, which was grounded in vienna, simply because the us suspected edward snowden was on board, which he wasn't by the way. but america wanted him arrested so badly. it was willing to ground a president's personal plane. the bolivian presidents claim was once forced to land . the president was taken out of the plain, but nothing was said about that silence. in 2016 ukraine ground at a, but a russian commercial jet, also arresting an opposition activist who was on board. but of course,

this time it's all different. so the e u has frozen its investment into bellows. the whole 3000000000 euros of it. there is a tendency in the west, unfortunately not to regard sanctions as inactive war when in fact it is inactive war. it's just a lower level of warfare before a shooting war. this is particularly dangerous in the sense that if europe, europe in its allies in the us, britain, and get together in the rapid reaction, g 7 mechanism and put sanctions on beller roof for instance. then you have a problem because this is really standing between russia and the european union and who's gonna, who's going to be the victim of this is going to be the people of bella. ruth, one been a russian opposition figure in exile. took the idea of financial incentive if you like to a whole new level, offering 11000000 euros to anyone who arrests location go. just get clint eastwood

on the case already. oh and yes. perhaps the grounding of the ryan jet wasn't exactly the sort of thing you'd expect to see in a democracy. remember though, we are still talking about the man, the media branded europe's last, dictate him, and who can blame him if he can play the game as well as his big and very democratic brother the us? that's an obvious point of hypocrisy in how this story is being framed. that's not to say that there is a debate regarding international law, whether a government scrambling its air force to ground commercial airliner over its air space. and also in apprehending somebody from a commercial flight, that's not the legitimate point of debate. however,

to say that this is unprecedented, or to say that of this never happens in the west is a ridiculous proposition. and so this is time and time again. we see that every time the western media governments, they don't look at the wider context of what's going on. and if you look at the internal affairs of bella ruse, and how much pressure is also being put to bear on the country from the outside, from these very powers that are condemning this act, it's a very different story and it's a much wider discussion that needs to be had rapidly rising crime rates in america are a forcing some officials to rethink plans to defund the police. on wednesday, a white house spokesperson said gun violence was aspiring out of control. the comments came off, the 8 people were killed in a mass shooting in san jose, california. we are suffering from an epidemic of gun violence in this country, both in mass shootings and in the lives that are being taken in daily gun violence

that doesn't make national headlines. the call to cut funding and even abolish whole police department started last year. of course, following the death of george floyd, an officer has since been convicted of his murder. now more than 20 major u. s. cities have now reduced their police budgets. on the year, i am for massive structural and transformational reform. we will not be increasing our police budget. we will be moving funding from the n y p be to youth initiatives and social services. many democratic party politicians around the country heard the cry of the protesters, but now as crime surges, many of them are back tracking fatal shootings in minneapolis in 2021 have nearly

doubled from last year. there have been 3 times as many carjackings. this is the very same city where george floyd killing last year sparked protests, crying defun, the police all over the country. but now in minneapolis, that's refund to police. big, overarching statements that we're going to defined or abolish and dismantle the police department to get rid of all the officers with an impact that needs to stop . it's unacceptable. we should be holding those perpetrators accountable for include safety beyond policing, and it includes police. now the city council is increasing the police department budget by $6400000.00 after cutting it by 8000000 last year. in april of this year, there had been 166 percent more shootings in new york city than there were in april of 2020 new york city mayor bill de blasio who wants pledge to cut the police budget by $1000000000.00. as now promise to build an entirely new police precinct

in queens. this is something that for decades that community asked for, it was one or the other, which was the choice in 2020. we leaned into the investments in the young people. now thankfully, we have resources to address both these issues. and the 1st month of this year, the city of los angeles has seen an increase in shooting paired to the same timeframe last year. now that democrat mare, the same one who jumped on the de fund, the police bandwagon, is calling for an increase in the police budget. the city council wants $250.00 more officers to be hired if you want to abolish the police. you're talking to the wrong there. now the mayor of st. louis is sticking to her gun despite having one of the highest murder rates in the country. not only does she want to defend the police, she also wants to shut down the jail. no human being should be cased for weeks and months on end with little certainty of when and if they'll ever see their family again, we share a commitment to reducing harm in our communities and ending the cycles of trauma

that have cause far too many of our neighbors to be locked up in our cities jails. the number one reason why crime keeps going up is because of politicians. politicians keep doing everything they can to weaken the system to make the public more happy. and you're not asking the right questions which are, what is the point, what does the public doing in criminal aspects, which is calling the police lawfully act the way they do and then the public is in there. they're on educated, ignorant, misguided eyes. seeing this as police brutality. so the public really needs to step up to the plate. they need to come to the table. they need to be educated on why the police do what they do. they need to understand laws. they need to understand department policies a year after the killing of george floyd and joe biden's police reform bill is not exactly a hit in congress. americans do not see eye to eye while crime is rising. outrage about police brutality and killings is also sky. hi, caleb bobbin artsy, new york. 2 people have been killed and more than 20 feet wounded in

a mass shooting outside a banquet hole in the u. s. city of miami. according to police, the incident took place at around midnight local time, a white car. as we understand, pulled up at the location and 3 people armed with assault weapons jumped out and they started firing indiscriminately at the crowd outside who had been attending a private concert of the venue of police calling the shooting a cowardly act. they say they believe it was a targeted attack and a growing number of asian americans of buying weapons for the very 1st time, a softer surgeon hate crimes that picking up firearms. they're also joining a lobby groups to resist the push for stricter done last by the democratic leadership. there is a real and imminent threat and we need to defend ourselves and our love. we refuse to be silent, and we refuse to be victims. again, rico bid for me. last year. i am the father of

a mixed asian family. my wife is 100 percent chinese american. and so it's my daughter and we were just walking down the street as we normally do to go to simple park visit when a menacing group is folks that showed up in a pick up truck and yelled a bunch of racial borders that us them said at us out the window and that just really got me thinking, you know, what, what would have happened if i hadn't been there? would they've been more aggressive, would they have followed my wife home and done something even worse? and so that really just kinda planted the fee to me that you know, you really do have to take personal protection into your own hands, especially in its own little group like the asian american community, which historically isn't known for don ownership or things of that nature. scott kane has since co founder, the asian american and pacific island gun owners group. it has thousands of followers on social media and encourages responsible ownership of firearms as well as resistance to policies seen as to restrictive. well attacks on the asian

americans have jumped a 164 percent and major us cities since the pandemic in comparison to the same time . last year. a new york san francisco and los angeles showed the biggest increases with hate crimes continuing to spike. the scott kane again says u. s. gun culture has actually changed and the current administration needs to take that into account. i think that today's gun ownership is not you know, the traditional conservative beer to dude and tactical gear with tattoos in america had its minorities and people of color. you know, the, by the administration with some of the proposals on the table would turn many of

his constituents into criminals. overnight i view our mission as educating policy maker is more or less to what the realize that you know, gun ownership is changed. it's not the stereotypical letter a member anymore. we're coming from the perspective of, you know, liberal biden's supporters. i personally voted democrat and every election since 2004. and i think they're just the role need for this kind of a group in the, in the world that has a different perspective that we're used to hearing to from still to come here on the program on t. shakespeare well in tendency to link whiteness to beauty, has seen the plays of a fame word. smith called into question people in our calling, shakespeare a racist. that story a much more right after a quick break. oh i

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the, the, the, the, ah, it's going to cerio sunday with us here at moscow. a highly anticipated summit between vladimir putin and joe biden has finally been confirmed at the meeting will take place in the swiss city of geneva, on the 16th of june. it will be the 1st time they've come face to face as presidents. and as preparations get under way for the summit, let's just take a quick look at some of the key moments of the cozy relationship over the last couple of months. oh, me. you know veteran report, you think he's a killer? yes, i do. so what price must he pay? oppression is going to pay. well, you'll see shortly when i was

a child and we had arguments in the courtyard. we were saying benches of me and sticks to you. and it's not just the children saying the meaning is very deep in the present bible regret calling bottom mckellar. i know that the president gave a direct answer to a direct question which i want to invite president biden to continue our discussion . but on the condition, it's going to be live on line we want to stable, predict the relationship. so i think it's on a boy that has more details about the summit and what kind of implications that could be for geo politics. this meeting comes at a time when the relationship between the 2 countries are rather strained. and it's not so much the diplomatic bodies that have been preparing this meeting. but rather, the security body's the half of the security council's on both sides and punish

from russia jakes, all of a national security adviser to joe biden, on the american side. and i think that is actually a demonstration of the degradation of public policy and diplomacy between russia and the united states. the sort of commons at the american side has allowed itself to make and reason times remember of biting calling who tin a killer. and i think an interesting detail about this whole thing is that the preparations for this meeting had started long before that comment. and in russia they weren't. that common was interpreted as, as an effort by one camp within the bite and administration. john didn't mind this meeting. both sides understand very well that that relationship is indeed the worst time in, in its bilateral history. it's worse than it used to be in the cold war. simply because there is no framework that you know, keeps it from deteriorating even during the cold war time,

there were many agreements dog prevented both sides from sort of piling up all onto one another. sorry, so i final story here on the weekly his works have been taught to generations for centuries. but it seems there are still lessons to be learned about shakespeare one that london fit and our plans to the colonize his place, claiming they are racist for linking whiteness. to beauty, the globe theater has launched an anti racist shakespeare seminars for teachers, students, and theater professionals that designed to address problematic gendered and racialized dynamics. activists claim the playwright promoted white as being positive and black as negative. so, we put the issue up for debate. lead the colonizing traits there. maybe they ought to de colonize the bible. i think that doing has deliberate, the misunderstanding, the use of the word, demean,

beautiful. it doesn't have to mean it doesn't have to mean blonde. it doesn't have to mean white and suddenly a scribe racial value to it is just meaningless and sensitive and really going mad with a holistic shakespeare. yes, he wrote and it's time and one can view it as being politically correct. but on the other hand, they are loaded what these days and you know that the, the, either of it's the fairies or whatever it was was always a light character. darkness is always assign. secondly, the euro centric view of wickedness and evil. one has to have some balance, keep the historical perspective, but also be sensitive to the needs of young people who are listening and watching this may make that connection, whether this is c gender, i don't complex to draw conclusions based on color is just over sensitivity. run mad,

but the other point is that the whole of history never mind shrinks there. but the whole history with you go back to just chill with you all when they've been having and go in those days, attitude would different. now, we're not defending those attitudes. i think we have a better approach to all these issues and we, we recognize the underlying quality of people in a way the case earlier. but we often say, well, we will abandon all literature and all poetry. the visa, much majority must again be balanced with a sensitivity and needs of the minorities in those audiences. and it is about changing the landscape and not having a narrative because it's 600 years old. that will change full wits rate. that was the norm. 600 years ago. we're not that that, that is in a sense power. so the experience today, what has to be actually senses is to everybody in the audience and not just the view of the traditionalists that are always right. well there you go. that wraps up

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it's very clear that the united states has aligned itself with warlords and drug lords war criminals, basically, while the afghan people suffer. so as united states has been about $150000000000.00 us dollars trying to rebuild afghanistan, there is almost nothing to be seen from that. when the united states government special inspector general has gone out to look for the schools and the health care centers. when journalists have gone to look out, look at these things at the united states supposedly built, they can't be found. ah, me on february 5th, 2016. after months of uncertainty the united nations and now the decision.