[000:00:00;00] the a new twist to the end as a by scandal. immediate investigation reveals that denmark's intelligence service helped us by on top european leaders, including german chancellor anglo, michael, israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. 12 do rain because he's coming to an end as why we go position lead and believe that it's gross, his weight behind the unity government. also, china dismisses as political high president biden's probe into the origins of cove . it leak theory is now gaining traction in the media, which had rejected it when the trump administration made the same play with either

the us back track on that decision to cut police funding off the crime rates and the white house, the clothes and make a gun violet, ah, welcome, you're watching the weekly here on, on the international bringing you will, the latest headlines along with it. round up the stories that shapes the week. the 1st, the danish secret service helped america's national security agency to spy on top. the politicians, including german chancellor anglo merkel, that's according to a media investigation published on sunday. on this, i'm joined live by your team, corresponded to oliver pizza, get to see what exactly has been revealed here. hello. right. well, what we found out is the denmark played a crucial role, or to put that more correctly the danish defense intelligence service. basically

copenhagen spy agency played a crucial role in allowing the united states is national security agency or n s a to spy on key european allies. major figures in countries like germany, france, norway, sweden. here in germany, it was chancellor anglo medical, as well as the jan and president frank full to shine maya, who came in for scrutiny from the se we also on that list was former candidate for chancellor in social democratic politician. pish, time brick, who's describes these latest revelations, political scandal. what we knew already was came from back in 2013 when the se spice candle broke, and we found out exactly what pain going on when it came to who america we're listening to in europe amongst the allies. what is regulatory about this? what it, why this is a revelation is we haven't known not only that, denmark was

a key part of the eavesdropping, but. busy that denmark was pretty much the main part of this eavesdropping, the, the secret service person who's come forward and release these details to media both here in germany as well as other european countries, as described, the danish network as the crown jewel in this particular spies scandal, due to the geographic nature of denmark in northern europe as well as all of the, the internet cables that come in and out of it puts it at a place where they were able to, well, basically siphoned off information that would they would then able to pass along to the american side. now when it comes to exactly what they were able to get the talking about, it being unprecedented levels of information, including telephone conversations that could be listen to anything that was written on a messaging up, as well as old text messages. so think about it, not all of german chancellor angle americans, text messages,

not privy to some quite sensitive information. what we are expecting is big questions to be asked about this. i said, pish, time brigitte describes it as a political scandal. we still haven't heard what the german chancellor thinks of this coming from. what is one of the closest allies when it comes to the danish side who assures to face an awful lot of questions come monday morning. well, what we understand from the information that was lead to the press is that the danish government knew about this in around 2015. it also emerges that the danish was spying of the danish secret service were spying on both the danish foreign ministry and finance ministry for the united states, as well as a danish armed manufacturer. and now if you put all of this together, it starts to make a lot more sense. why in 2020 the, the whole leadership of denmark spy agency was still down still means is going to be a lot of questions as to why. for one,

they took part in this spying operation against some of the closest allies, particularly when it comes to here in germany, in sweden, of course, as well as norway, a lot of questions going to be asked not a lot of answers forthcoming so far, but a lot of those questions are also going to be heading over the atlantic to the united states and to the white house where joe biden, of course, was a part of the administration that carried this out. now president joe biden was of course, vice president on the barranca bama when all of the spine took place. peter, i thank you for those details. i thought he's piece oliver. so following a huge diplomatic storm over the forced version of a passenger plane to bella, ruth, the countries president alexander lucas shank, has been defending the move, claiming no laws were broken. the rhine plane was intercepted by a fighter jet and ordered to make an emergency landing or the hopes bomb threats. however, an opposition activist on board and his girlfriend would then arrested the event

sparks protests in some european cities. the russians living in amsterdam and warsaw rallied alongside locals and supportive political prisoners. by the rule though, insist says no political persecution in the country. the us on the you are drawing a coordinated sanctions against members of lucas shank, of government, and both advise against flying through bella and ask space. however quick question whether the west is in a position to lecture bella bruce, as long as he goes, donna 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 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 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 withdrawal condemned the lucca shanker regimes brazen and choking 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 passengers were in danger. in order to arrest a journalist. the high plain on the attention of the passage is it's something that is completely check the room. and we really start 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 st. bella, russian security officers essentially calling on lynch mobs to go get them. and one

by one e, you, nations began to close the air space to barrows, national airline, while europe based carriers in turn refused to fly over the country to russia. england has received, 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 not to fly over bell or 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 off 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's claim was once forced to 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 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 shooting war. this is particularly dangerous in the sense that if europe, europe in its allies of us, britain and get together in the rapid reaction, g 7 mechanism and put sanctions on beller ruse 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 your apprehension. somebody from a commercial flight that's, that's a 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 we, this is time and time again. we see this every time the western media governments are they don't look at the wider context of what's going on. and if you look at the internal affairs of bell 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 up 12 consecutive years at the helm of israeli politics. benjamin netanyahu could be on the way out. why do we go position needed? natalie bennett has just announced that he's ready to form

a new government on his policy. a report. nasty bennett, who was the leader of the main party, which means the right party in israel had now announced that he's joining forces with the leader of the opposition. get yelled up, kid to get it. they have a 61 majority, which is what they need to be able to form the next majority coalition in israel. now, bennett has said that although he come from the right of the political spectrum and he's essentially joining forces with parties in the center and the list, he is doing this because the country has been in a crisis. politically. there have been some for election in the space of 2 years, all over the last 4 rounds of elections. we've seen a country weakening itself, damaging itself and losing its ability to function. we see ministers who are fighting with each other, who do not manage anything. we have seen riots and the burning of synagogues and

load an acura instead of managing and leading their methodist to spread hatred and polarization between the people of our country to conceal their own failure. but the coalition that bennett is joining is very wide. we change so much so that it's going to be fragile and not be able to contain on controversial issues like the piece. rather, it will have to limit itself to making decisions about the economy. how to deal with coven 19. and this is something that these really prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been appealing to the electorate. and to those who have joined the coalition about, he is not ready to give up without a fight. and he is warning israelis that the new coalition could spell disaster. it might be fairly been, i heard not told bernard. unfortunately he is again misleading the public, the same lives and them to slogan some have written division from the person themselves. so i hate written division is leading the scam of the century, and it has been the longest serving prime minister of israel. he's been in office

for some 12 years. and what we see happening here is mister 70 political parties coming together because they have constraints upon issues that rather because they will have a joint desire to get the tongue yahoo, out of office this come at a particularly sensitive time for israel. they was the recent israel, god, the war that lasted 11 days. the same time we've seen some of the with violence between the way, the jews and his way the avenue that the country has witnessed in years. the whole, the the,

the the the china is once again refuted claims. the corona virus originated from one of the countries labs comes off to the us cities, doubling down on efforts to track down the source of the pandemic. cynthia taylor

report. remember donald trump and his administration take on the corona virus? the chinese virus comes lou, the china virus calling flu, chinese flu, the china flu. there's enormous evidence that that's where the beget, remember turn 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 viruses, a result of failures in a chinese lab. remember how his theory about the virus escaping from alive 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 have this year fresh in the oval office bite and let me shut down

a trump era top secret operation to look into the origins of the pandemic. and specifically, what the virus leaked from the woo hon institute of firewall a g q. his own altering off her 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 not trump wanted at. 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 tit summit and in the interest of public safety. so when fidel lee did others, 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 the month has been finding any covert conspiracy theories has coincidentally,

decided to give the neat button a bit of a break in light of ongoing investigations into 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 got stuck to its guns is china. lately, some people have played the old trick of political hive on the origin. tracy of covered 19 in the world smear campaign and blame shifting. i'm making a come back. and the conspiracy theory of love league is resurfacing as cool that more transparency from basic counsel momentum as the woo hon week theory begins to enter the mainstream. and people pick aside the w h o 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 time 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 covey 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 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. the filling up with soaring crime rates, the white house, the clothes don't violence in the country epidemic in some cities to think again about the funding, the police on this after the short break,

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or remain in the shallows. i join me every 1st day on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world. the politic sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then me the welcome back. rapidly rising crime rates in the us and forcing some officials to rethink plans to de from the police. on wednesday, whitehouse spokesperson said gun violence was spiraling out of control. the comments came after 8 people were killed in a mash shooting in san jose in 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 because to cut funding and even abolish whole

police department started last year following the death of george floyd, an officer has since been convicted of his murder more than 20 major us cities have now reduced their police budgets. i did the the 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 defend or abolish and dismantle the police department and get rid of all the officers. we've an impact to that needs to stop. it's unacceptable. we should be holding those perpetrators accountable to include safety beyond policing, and it include 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. 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 promised 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 this issues. and the 1st month of this year, the city of los angeles has seen an increase in shooting compared to the same timeframe last year. now that democrat mer the same one who jumped on the d 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 city's jails. the number one reason why crime keeps going up is because the 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 martin, r t new york. a growing number of asian americans of buying firearms for the very 1st time off to a search in hate crimes. they're also joining lobby groups to resist the push for

strict gun lowest by the democratic party. there is a real and imminent threat and we need to defend ourselves and our loved ones. we refused to be silent, and we refused 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. it went to a menacing group as folks that showed up in a pickup truck and yelled a bunch of racial borders that us and spit out 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 see 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 you know,

gun ownership or things of that nature called kane ha, since co founded the asian american on pacific island, a gun owners group, it has thousands of followers on social media and encourages responsible ownership of firearms as well as resistance to policy seen of, to restrictive attacks on asian americans have jumped a 164 percent in major us cities in the pandemic in comparison to the same period last year. new york san francisco and los angeles showed the biggest increases with hate crimes continuing to spike through what's called a cain against a us gun culture has changed on the current administration,

needs 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 maga, had its minorities and people of color. you know, the, by the administration to 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 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 there's just the role need for this kind of a group in the, in the world that has a different perspective than not we're used to hearing from me. thanks for joining us here. are naughty international that's all from me bushel and thomas will be with you in 30 minutes with the latest

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