the in the top stories of the week here on our tea, china dismisses as political high president biden's probe into the origins of cove . it the lab leak theory is now gaining traction in the media, which had rejected the idea when the trump administration made the same claim. the isolation of a nation, bella rose spaces up by roger of criticism and closed space from the youth that's off to a passenger, jack was forced to make an emergency diversion to minx over a bomb threat. but then all of a sudden an opposition activist on board was arrested and cities in america got track on their decisions to cut police funding off the crime rate surge. and the white house declares an epidemic of gun violence.

ah, i just talked to 6 pm in moscow on the sunday. welcome to the program going off to international. this is the weekly, china's once again refuted the claims that the corona virus originated from one of the countries laboratories it comes off to the us said is doubling down on efforts to track down the source of the pandemic. as ortiz saskia taylor now reports. remember donald trump and his administration's take on the corona virus. the chinese virus comes lose. the china, a virus con journeys flew to china flu. there's enormous evidence that that's where the big yet, 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 it's totally rational ferry. why? because it's not trump peddling it all you have this year fresh in the oval office bite, and they'll actually shut down a trump para top secret operation to look into the origins of the pandemic. and specifically, whether the virus leaked from the woo hon institute of firewall a g q, his own altering over report into the origins of the pandemic. with the lab leak as 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 to summit and in the interest of public safety. so when sedan plea did a new york times drawn a thought, i decided pro, incidentally to delete a previous tweet about the problematic nature of the lab, meek theory, and big peck which month has been binding. any covert conspiracy theories has coincidentally decided to give the delete button a bit of a break in light of ongoing investigation since the origin of course 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 origins ration 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. the more transparency from basic counsel momentum as the woo, how meek theory begins to enter the mainstream. and people pick aside the w h. o has decided to sit on the fence bony, recent need 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 caught 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 there may be 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 sure that this is another example of the insane 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 really frightening. following a huge diplomatic storm over the 4 stock ocean of a passenger plain to bella, roofs of the country's president alexander. look, shank o has been defending the move saying no laws were broken. the right plan was intercepted by a fighter jet in order to make an emergency landing over a hoax. bomb threat. however, an opposition activist on board and his girlfriend with then suddenly arrested of events, spoke to protests. in some european cities, been a russians living in amsterdam and was so rallied alongside locals in support of political prisoners. now bella ross though it says there's no political persecution in the country the us and the meantime, a drawing up coordinated sanctions against members of lucas shame,

because government and both advise against flying through belly russian ass space. however, critics question whether the west is actually in a position to lecture. bella rose, i thought, eager to start off now investigate 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 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 book shan't 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 shenker regimes. brazen and shocking acts to divert a commercial flight in the rest. a journalist, look at saint luke's sancho has done as a disgrace that ought to support us here. the lives of more than $107.00 passengers

un, an order to rest 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 to live on c d. c. d. 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 to force landing a jet simply so you can extract a political thorn on the heard 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 president claimed was once for her land, the president was taken out of the plain, but nothing was said about that silence. in 2016 ukraine, grounded 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 over 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 europe, europe, in its allies, in the us, britain and get together in the rapid reaction g 7 mechanism and put sanctions on beller road 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. luca shan't go. just get clint

eastwood on the case already. who? 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 dictator. 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. ok. talk receipt 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 airline or over its air space. and also in apprehending somebody from a commercial flight that's. that's the legitimate point of debate. however, to say that this is some crested on it,

or to say that of this never happens in the west is a ridiculous proposition. and so we, this is time and time again. we see this 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 rues, 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 spiraling 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 calls to cut funding and even abolish entire police department started last year following the death of george floyd an officer has since been convicted off his murder more than 20 major us cities though have already reduced the 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 b 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 refund to police, big overarching statements that we're going to defend 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 if that 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 once pledged 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 the 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. in the 1st months of this year, the city of los angeles has seen an increase in shooting paired to the same timeframe last year. now that democrat mayor, 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 course 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 are an 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 r t new york. well, 2 people have been killed and more than 20 wounded in

a mass shooting outside a banquet hole in the us city of miami, in florida. according to police, the incident took place at around midnight local time. a white car pulled off at the location 3 people jumped out with assault weapons and they started firing indiscriminately at the crowd outside who had been attending a private concert. please describe the shooting as a cowardly act and say they believe of what they coordinated and targeted a growing number of asian americans of buying firearms for the very 1st time is after a surgeon hate crimes. they're also joining lobby groups to resist the push for strict a gun laws by the democratic party. there is a real and imminent threat and we need to defend ourselves and our loved ones. we refuse to be silent, and we refuse to be victims. again, re copays for me last year. i'm the father of the next 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. when administer group is folks that showed up in a pickup truck and yelled a bunch of racial borders at us and said as alpha 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 gotten something even worse? and so that really just kinda pointed to see, to me that you really do have to take personal detraction 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 cane has since co founder, the asian american and pacific islander 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 quote, to restrictive. well attacks on asian americans have jumped 164 percent of major

u. s. cities since the pandemic. certainly in comparison to the same period last year, a new york san francisco, los angeles, they all showed the biggest increases with hate crime is continuing to spike scott kane again says u. s. gun culture has 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 and a mega had its minorities and people of color. you know, the, by the ministration with some of the proposals on the table would turn many of its constituents into criminals. overnight i you,

our mission as educating policy maker is more or less to what the realize that gun ownership is changed. it's not the stereotypical letter a member anymore. we're coming from the perspective of liberal biden's supporters. i personally voted democrat and every election since 2004. and i think there's 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 from our plate. him also to come here on the weekly, on the international, including shakespeare. apparently now he's a racist who built into that story, interest of i with, with the rest of your highlights of the past one week. ah i ah,

with me ah ah, i use so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be an arms race is on often very dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful,

very critical of time. time to sit down and talk the car. thanks for sharing your sunday with us here at r t for the highly anticipated summit between vladimir putin and joe biden has finally been confirmed that 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 precedence and as preparations get underway for the summer. let's just take a brief look at some of the key moments of the woman cozy friendship over the last couple of months. me you know, veteran report, you think he's a killer. 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 same, and the meaning is very deep present by regret calling. you 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 that's going to be live on line and we want to stable, predict the relationship. so over to our, on our boys now with more details about the summit and potential implications for the larger scheme of 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 bodies, 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 demonstration of the degradation of public policy and diplomacy between russia and the united states. the sort of commons that 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 home. and then in russia, they were in call me was interpreted as, as an african center 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 biological 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 times there were many

agreements doc prevented both sides from sort of piling up all onto one another. so his works have been taught to generations for centuries. but it seems as still lessons to be long now from william shakespeare. london theatre now, plans to be colonized his plays, claiming their racist for linking whiteness to beauty. the globe theatre has lawrence to anti racist, shakespeare seminars for teachers, students, and theater professionals. that designed to address problematic gender and a racialized dynamics. activists claim the play, right? promoted white as being positive and black as negative. so we have no choice. we have to put it up for debate. let the colonizing traits bear. maybe they ought to de, colonize the bible. i think all that doing is 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 holistic shakespeare. yes, he wrote and it's time and one can view it as being political, correct. but on the other hand, they are loaded word these days and you know that the, the, either of it's the fairies or whatever it was was always a light character. document is always a sign. certainly in 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 and may make that connection whether or not 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 changed. but the whole history with

you go back to judge jill with dor 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 also say, well, we will abandon all literature and all poetry. the visa much majority must again be with a sensitivity and needs of the minorities in those audiences. and it is about changing the landscape and not having and narrative because it's 600 years ago that would change the full width rate. that was the norm. 600 years ago. we're not that that, that is in a sense part of the experience today. what has to be the senses to everybody in the audience and not just the view of the traditionalists. they're always right. and

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