the, the, the who's in israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu is a 12 year rain could be coming to an end as right wing opposition. leader natalie bennett, throws his weight behind a unity government, a new twist to the faith spies scandal. a media investigation reveals that denmark's intelligence service helped us to spy on top european leaders, including german chancellor on the la merkel. also, china dismisses a political have as political high president by the prob, ordering the code it the lab leak periods. now gaining traction in the media, which had rejected it when the trump administration made the same claim. in the u. s. backtrack on their decision to cut police funding after crime rate surge and the

white house, claire's an epidemic of gunboat ah, are broadcasts, and my direct my studios moscow. this is already international. john thomas, certainly glad to have with us as we recap. 2 weeks top stories. now after 12 consecutive years at the home of israeli politics, benjamin netanyahu could be on the way out. right wing opposition, leader of tale bennett, has just announced that he is ready to form a new government or to post clear report. natalie bennett, who was the leader of the human a party, which means the right party in israel has 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 his role . 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's 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 have 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 the able to form consensus on controversial issues like the piece. rather, it will have to limit itself to making decisions about the economy, how to deal with prob 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 might be fairly ben, it's i heard natalie bernard. unfortunately, he's again misleading the public, the same lives and them to slogan some have written division from the person himself. so hatred and division his leading the scam of the century. nathaniel, who's been the longest serving prime minister of israel, he's been in office for some 12 years. and what we see happening here is mr. bailey, political parties coming together because they have constraints upon issues that ra that because that we have a joint desire to get baton yahoo out of office. this comes 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,

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the me, the the danish secret service helped america's national security agency to spy on top politicians and high ranking officials in germany, sweden in norway in france. that is, according to a media investigation published on sunday or to peter oliver has more. we know in since 2013, that the united states hud carried out extensive spying on its allies by here in germany and elsewhere in europe. what we didn't know until these latest revelations is that not only would denmark a part of helping the n s a spy on us allies,

but the, the danish defense intelligence service, the danish spy agency, we're crucial part in allowing the us to snoop on their allies including here in germany, of course chancellor angle america, as well as german president frank volta, shine my and former candidate to be chancellor from the social democrats. pish, time brick. he has commented already and described this as a political scandal. no word as of yet from the chancellor's office on the latest revelations. the fact the denmark is geographically located where it is and how internet connectivity works across europe. it puts denmark in a location, it makes it a hub that when you tap into those, those why is those cables, those into that cables that come through the country. it allows you to get your hands on some pretty sensitive information to get a glimpse into what that is according to the information is passed along to the press. the whole system,

the network in denmark was pretty much the crown jewels of the s a spying operation . when it comes to listening in to you leaders, they had access to things like all telephone calls that were being made. anything that was posted on any messaging service and all text messages, as you can imagine, being able to listen into every phone call or read every text message the german chancellor sends. that means you're privy to some very sensitive information. lot of questions posed to the danish government as to when they knew about all of this, from the information that's being leaked. it seems they knew as perhaps as late as 2015. that's the could serve as had been helping the n s a in this way. what the information that was provided also shows is that the secret service were helping the americans listen in to all of the danish finance ministry and the danish foreign ministry. as well as an arms manufacturer based in denmark, there's also going to be questions of course,

flying over to the other side of the atlantic, where now president joe biden was vice president joe biden. and part of the administration that would have functioned all of the spying activity. certainly a lot of questions that come yet over just how involved and how much information was spied on by the us on some of it's closest allies. or let's go back to our top story now where right wing of tale bennett has thrown his weight behind a unity government, which means that benjamin netanyahu is 12 year reign might be coming to him. let's cross live to journalist and author chris hedges to help us robert mines around this again, after 12 years. is it really the end for baby? well no, on wednesday. it's pretty close. you know, things can happen. people can defect. but it doesn't look good for baby. this was an unexpected development because it's a marriage between the mean

a party which is even further to the right. not by much i'll that's in y'all's. what could i and more center is party with a lot who has called for a resumption negotiation between israel and the palestinian authority and is a bit more liberal. but yes, it doesn't look good for b b. now, chris, in terms of israel, domestic and foreign policies, are they likely to change at all if a coalition government is formed comprising parties from across a wide political spectrum? and you mentioned this interest there? no, i think because there's so much disagreement between you know, the 2 major coalitions. i suspect that they'll do just with the bio ministration is doing, which is nothing. you know, there is no, there will be no resumption of peace talks and i don't see how they can ever bridge

that gap. so not much will change for in terms of foreign policy. and now much will change in terms of israel's policies towards the palestinians. let's talk about that a little bit more. perhaps most important came in the recent events there. what impact will this have on the conflict with palestine? could we even expect some engagement with iran here? i mean that that's that's, that's a difficult question to answer. i mean, bennett is he comes with a pretty far right to view both in terms of domestic and foreign policy. i mean, it's interesting. our netanyahu is lashed out just in the last few hours, you know, not only against this, you know, alliance, but he compared the american government under biden, to iran and mosse,

and depicted all 3 of the threats to israel. so there is clearly a kind of desperation on the part of nathan, yahoo the nothing yahoo project has long been around as has i should argue, the israeli defense force and, and their benny gas will remain in charge. so i don't think that policies towards iran will change. however, any kind of actual assault against a rand is impossible without the blessing of the united states. and that's long been the case in the israeli government all the way back to the bush administration has pushed for strikes against iran. and the u. s. military is consistently refused to engage in that kind of conflict because of the consequences. so i expect to kind of stalemate with iran. i expect a kind of stalemate with the palestinians. is

a coalition that will focus primarily on domestic issues. yeah, and there may be changes there, but i don't expect any other major changes from the almost 13 years now. that nothing yahoo is ruled israel. you mentioned netanyahu's lashing out. in fact, he's described enough tale bennett to move as a danger for the security of israel. do you agree with this? now there's very little daylight between the 2 and yahoo and bennett. so i mean, they both been, it comes out of the subtle or movement, but baby is given the settlers, everything that they want. bennett is aligned with baby by the way. so lock that in terms of for instance, recognition of israeli sovereignty of the goal and height. and all 3 of them have intern rhetorically been quite fierce against iran's so yeah, babies,

i mean that's what's interesting. i mean baby has kind of been throwing rhetorical bombs. but i think that's a sign of desperation, i think he knows is completely cornered. well, the really pm, the current one possibly on his way out, also described bennett's move as the fraud of the century. referring on the latter's promise not to go in with your lap and what do you make of this move, considering it's all been in or working so far, not really not to us. so i mean, that is true. it was surprising. i mean, remember, it's what you've had for elections in the last 2 years. there's just not been any kind of stability. all you need is a simple majority and connected to form of government at 61 votes. but it often comes down. and i mean right now that's this collision, as i think 61 votes could only hold 30 seats. so you're always bringing in a small parties, including,

i think there's one member of the psalmist united arab list, which is playing a role in this coalition. i mean, it's always fractions. it's always delicate, it's always contentious and israel. and that's why, you know, we won't really know until wednesday and, and so, you know, something could implode, it wouldn't take very many members of the connected to do it. however, this is the 1st time i think we can say with some certainty, that pv nathan, yahoo isn't real, political trouble. and remember when he gets out of office, he phases corruption charges. pretty serious corruption charges which you know, could, could see him in some very serious legal difficulty. and he didn't, we'll be very interesting to see what happens with now once he is no longer the pm, will be keeping a close eye on that. we hope that we can get back to you when that story becomes more in the forefront. great, right, journalist and author, chris had just,

thanks for being with us here on our to international. alright, it china is once again refuted claims the chronic virus originated from one of the countries labs. it comes after the u. s. said it is doubling down on efforts to track down the source of the pandemic artery sauce. can tailor reports rember donald trump and his administration's take on the corona virus. the chinese virus comes lou, the china, a virus calling chinese flu, china flu. there's enormous evidence that that's where this began. 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 was 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 earlier this year, fresh in the oval office bite and actually shot 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, who, 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 fightin are not trump wanted at, i've no off the intelligence community to redouble their efforts to collect and analyze the 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 interests of public safety. so, coincidentally,

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 for months has been binding. any covert conspiracy theories had coincidentally decided to give the to meet 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 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. of course, 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. 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 a 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 codes one at 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 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 the 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. you just, you're just been made aware of this. dear god, what else have you just become aware of? i mean it's,

it's really frightening. so the come in the program with saw in crime rate. so the white house declares gun violence in the country and epidemic for some subsidy to think again about the funding, the police on this after a short break. this is our international ah. driven by a dreamer shaped by those in me. i

think we dare to ask in what we got to do is identify the threats that we have crazy. even from station let it be an arms race is often very dramatic development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk to me the news, the welcome back to the weekly on our international now rapidly rising crime rates in the us are forcing some officials to rethink plans to defend the police. on wednesday, whitehouse spokesperson said gun violence was spiraling out of control. the comments came after 8 people were killed in the 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 calls to cut funding and even abolish. busy whole police departments started last year following the death of george floyd an officer has since been convicted of his murder. more than 20 major u. s. cities have now reduced their police budgets. i. i 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. there's an impact to that ios needs to stop. it's unacceptable. we should be holding those perpetrators accountable that includes 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. there were in april of 2020 new york city mayor bill diblasio,

who wants pledge 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 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 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 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 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. growing number of asian americans are buying firearms for the very 1st time after surge in hate crimes. they are also joining lobby groups to resist the push for stricter gun laws by the democratic party. there is a real, an 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 cope id 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 as it went to many things. group is folks that showed up in a pickup truck and yelled a bunch of racial waters that us them that 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 pointed to 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, god cane has since co founder, the asian american and the pacific islander gun owners group. it has thousands of followers on social media and encourages responsible ownership of firearms as well as listens to pull policies seen as to restrictive tax. on asian americans have jumped to 164 percent and major us cities since the pandemic in comparison to the same period. last year. new york in san francisco and los angeles showed the biggest increases with the crimes continuing to spike

the scarred cane again. it says us, a 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 maga, had its minorities and people of color. you know, the by the administration or 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 than not we're used to hearing to from that as a for me. and i'll look at your weekly in 31 minutes. this is our international stay with us. ah . join me every 1st day on the alex summon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me. i my love. thank and wanted to know me and johnny get

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