the, the, the, the, the russian president vladimir putin speaks to us media. i had of the much anticipated summit with joe biden labeling, accusations made by the u. s. president, that he's a killer as an expression of us culture. my colleagues do for a deep sense of the child. we have young police officers who by age alone will not be vaccinated. how can not be right? u k. police chiefs raised the alarm over a lack of vaccinations for the force a mid fears. the $5000.00 and job the officers at the g. 7 summit could become coven super spreaders. while the new york parents declare war on the woke indoctrination at schools putting up billboards demanding their children instead be

taught to think for themselves about diversity. ah . broadcasting law director of our studios in moscow. this is our international john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now day one of the 1st g southern in person summit. since the start of the pandemic has wrapped up in southwest england, it also marks jo biden's 1st overseas trip during his presidency. now ahead of the summit, biden met with the host u. k prime minister, both johnson, they signed a new atlantic charter based on a 1941 agreement that outlined the 2 countries goals after world war 2. the priority. now, according to the documentary cooperation, as for the g 7 event itself, the main talking points are the pandemic trade and climate change plus china and russia. meanwhile,

american channel nbc has interviewed russian president vladimir putin ahead of his meeting with joe biden in geneva next week. before program will be aired on monday or tuesday, but i gotcha. as far what we have heard so far is julio cheese and she's of the full interview, but i must say, they managed to fit the law into this jesus, let me put and opened up by saying that relations between russia and the united states, worse than they have been in years and i suppose that is the politically correct way of saying that they're absolutely terrible, which is probably why the summit is happening. there is, at this point, little alternative, both sides have much more to lose by ignoring each other than they have to gain by working out rudimentary rules, which can be difficult to do when the guy you supposed to talk to. cool, joe kilo and vladimir putin says that he's none too phased by that over my tenure. but i've gotten used to attacks all kinds of angles from all kinds

of areas under all kinds of pretext and reasons. different caliber and fierceness you and none of it surprises me. so as far as harsh rhetoric, you think that this is an expression of overall us culture. the russian president tools who like and some of the allegations and accusations against him to, to verbal indigestion. he said ultimately that he believes jo button is a career politician, someone who is devoted most of his adult life to politics, who knows how things work, that he isn't impulsive. he also said that he's the opposite. directly opposite of trump, who he described as a colorful and extraordinary individual who must have been talented because he became a president of the united states like me and also touched in this jesus on the international themes. a report that made the rounds and in american press that marcia was preparing to self to a rod advise and satellite technology perhaps, satellites themselves and let me and said that this is complete,

this information fake news. he said, he didn't know anything of the sort of, perhaps us journalists knew more about that. and him, with much of the world political world, counting down the days until biden and to, to meet face to face. there's been a lot of reaction, a lot of speculation in the media more and more the days. one down, some saying the american press the, you know, they should cool off the entire summer because there will be no break through, you know, having, having commented on politics for many years now. i must say there are few breakthroughs in politics or break. susan in science, but politics isn't generally a gradual slow process, so i'm not exactly not entirely sure where they're coming from here. others are saying that biden should call off the summit and the grounds that. 3 he isn't doing to make much progress in the lab me. i will make him the fool that biden will

embarrass himself. others the saying that the summer should happen, the summer should go long and that it should be as productive as possible because again, russia in the united states only have to gain come from a good and fruitful relationship. as for the official russian reaction, the president spokesperson has come out and said the relations of such that both sides, she simply need to add their concerns, their grievances towards each other because they have collapse the relations on almost every fraud. he cannot make military cooperation. the fight against the pandemic against climate change, against even terrorism, compensation and dialogue between the 2 sides has stopped there. still, he says, working out the, the technical aspects and the details of this summit, such as whether vladimir putin and job barton will meet face to face will weather will have the delegations, the numbers of people that will be present also where they'll be a joint press conference at the end, he said not to hope for one,

but that the russian president is ready for either a joint press conference or to hold his own off to the summit before before the press. but the point, the pensacola says of this summits is to prevent the further deterioration of relations. the main reason seem to go is the poor state of relations between the 2 countries. the critical level of this relationship requires a summit between our 2 countries to be held because this is the only way to prevent the 3rd, the degradation of our dialogue. again, the world will be watching this meeting. there is a lot riding on it on the international stage, as well as the domestic stages of russia and the united states. there is not a lot of hope that the will be a major breakthrough, but the hope is that they will be able to lay a foundation foundation of of trust on which they will be able to build solid friendly relations on day one of the summit in cornwall leaders pledged to donate

hundreds of millions of vaccine doses to poor countries, but in the host nation itself, please have warned of a more immediate problem than 5000 of the officers at the event has not been inoculated. that though it has not stopped a z u. k prime minister from praising the force for its work during the pandemic. i bet policing restrictions in that way was not something you ever dreamt you will be doing. but you did it because you knew it was how we are going to protect the n h. s. and save lives for something that speaking out the police federation, annual conference abilene names, policing on the pressure of those within the 4th. a claim that he and home secretary principal sell them on the front line during a pandemic. totally unprotected, in small words became lame actions. and the result is my colleagues do feel a sense, a deep sense of the trial. just this week we have thousands of colleagues from all

over the country coming together to place the g 7. so me to call more police officers from those very communities where the indian variance of the virus is thriving. we have young police officers who by age alone will not have been vaccinated. how can not be right? 6500 offices from every police force in the country. a part of the g 7 ring the still dealing with diplomat small over the world. meaning the summit could become a hot bed of cove. it with offices acting as potential super spread is certainly an issue that needs to be considered whether or not there's any risk of a super spread, a soft event occurring around the g 7. so there are people from all over the world . they include people from countries where the rights of covey to very different from allison, with various different versions of a virus causing the problems. last year that were 89 police officer deck involving cove it highlighting why police representative are so eager for their members to

get their jobs if they're going to continue to put themselves at risk front line officers on the so. so things tend to be at the young end of the scale, certainly enlarge numbers, and therefore they will not yet have reached the point where they will all be vaccinated with the g 7 operation. now the way there are fears and some courses that the damage has already been done and it leaves government officials hoping that the summit doesn't result in a surgeon code cases and particularly amongst those they've off protecting some of the world's most powerful people. he's alley off the u. k. london. the father and brother of joint massage have travelled from australia to the us for a month long tour. they're calling on the white house to stop hounding the wiki league's co founder. so i'm just currently in jail in the u. k and just wanted stateside on espionage charges. his family and many supporters are urging that the

entire case be dropped. so 6 months now passed since since the refusal of bale. and we still don't know when there will be an appeal. so what, what was thing is just, it's just another instance of this abuse of, of the process that julian has been suffering under for, you know, going on 12 years now. there is a, there is an opportunity now for, for the button, administration, and miracle. and just just to discontinue and drop this case, leak can stop was is a closed in july, and then we can lakes and christian hanson as her special. you know, they had the late that they continued at risk of himself to attempt to give a name to the dan. earlier this year, a british court rejected a u. s. extradition request for julian a sorry to, to concerns about his mental health,

while at the same time maintaining that washington has a solid case against him. america is still insisting he should be handed over for releasing thousands of classified files. it has been almost a decade now since sandra was 1st arrested in london, he later skipped bale before spending a total of 7 years hold up inside in the embassy in the british capital. he has been in belmont prison for the past 2 years. if he has sent to the u. s, he could face up to 175 years in prison. roger waters handing member of the rock band, pink floyd, and long time a song supporter told us press freedom itself was on trial. he is being held up as an example to people who might young people who might decide to make a career in journalism. and who might decide that the public has a right to know by the, by the good offices of the, for the state or the journal or the, you know, the newspapers who we absolutely desperately need to be free of the precious

autocratic government. to give us the information we need to be concerned citizen. so, but they don't, they, they pass that bay. does this include joe biden and blank? and i certainly hope not because he absolutely should step out to morrow and say wherever you are in the united states, john and gabriel shepherd and we here it is. here's the piece of paper we are dropping all the charges against julian assault, because we know for sure that he could, he committed no crime. all he did was report the news. that's it. and if that's a crime, and you should lock up, they had a tauriel boards of the new york times and everybody else particular, i bet, particularly the publish who published the same stories that wiki leaks published, particularly the, you know, the rock rogues and,

and dramatic most dramatically of all the classroom out a video, you know, i should be locked up. i showed that video and every single performance of the war when i did a, were to between the years of 2010 and 2013. no, he is being held up as an example. keep your mouth shut or this will happen to you . we will kill you because that's what they're trying to do. that trying to kill julian sanchez because he spoke the truth and it's disgusting. obviously, i do know the general public in the united states for our live are beginning on a number of issues to see what's going on more clearly than they did before than they have before. it may be that people will start to scratch their heads and go hold on a minute. this guy got a story. very interesting story,

disgusting story. and he and he decided that he had an absolute gigi in the public interest to publish that story. the government didn't want him to do it and now they're trying to kill him. there is something wrong with this picture. he was he, julian sars provided an enormously important public service to all americans . and not, not just americans as well because he's provided information to the, to the public, to the peoples of many of the nations all over the world. as we know, angry parents in new york have lashed out at elite schools in the city for allegedly indoctrinating their children with woke values instead of teaching them how to think on their own or to kill them up and has the story. it looks like some parents are fed up with critical race theory being taught in school. mobile

billboards have been set up outside of new york city. private schools, where parents are calling out the woke curriculum, taught on their money. the truck sign says, teach how to think. not what to think. woke school speak out and diversity not indoctrination. this campaign was organized by a group of parents who say they are concerned about what their children are being taught in recent years. and you orthodoxy has emerged to tell us cause dividing our communities based on immutable characteristics such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. as a result of the core tennis of high quality education, unite and all children and families through love and appreciation for learning and community spirit have gone by the wayside. schools should unite us not divide us. many of these parents say they are not opposed to an anti racist or pro diversity curriculum, but they say critical race theory is going a bit too far and causing more problems than it solves. we are group of concerned

parents who believe there is a better way to promote diversity and includes a ticket at lead and independent schools in new york city without sacrificing quality education for all students. to save our schools, administrators must ensure academic rigor and intellectual integrity requirements of any core curriculum. while respect and parents, as the primary moral educators of the children, parents aren't the only ones. there's an english teacher in new jersey at a private school who quit her job saying that critical race theory is racist. i'm resigning from a job that i love over the past few years. the school has embraced in ideology that is damaging to our students, intellectual and emotional growth and ideology that require students to see themselves not as individuals, but as by preventatives of either an oppressor or oppressed group and by professional opinion as an educator, the school is failing to encourage healthy habits of mind, essential for growth, a growing number of parents and teachers objects to the teaching of critical race

theory in school. this is yet another conflict and a time of already deep divisions in the united states of america. well, how will this all ultimately be resolved? well, it looks like it'll be up to our children to settle this. i actually think that critical race theory would be allowed in our schools to teach children teach him at home and that in the school. well, no need for that is what is doing is teaching kids how to have them what cultural is out of place that has no place and i was bad at all and in order to change. but we got about lynn. i was so from our teachers teach this particular correctly go back to the base keisha banners that we had before. and i was we want to change the situation. we must fight hard and we must do it from our home with our church to the way that we think we need to do it. so at this particular point,

we have got the point back and pushed back car governor of texas has resurrected a promise from the trump era. greg abbott says that he is going to build a wall on the border with mexico due to the government's failure to tackle the migrant in flux. the border crisis is no laughing matter. this is something that also is not a turn them aside for members of congress to make an annual pilgrimage to see the board and then go back and do absolutely nothing. the federal government level to solve the governor went on to say that work on the board wall will start next week, and migrants who trespass on private property will be arrested earlier this month, mr. abbott issued a disaster declaration along the southern frontier. you choose to biden administration of encouraging migrant saying the route was being used by human

traffickers and gangs. that's after migration hit a 20 year high in may alone, us border patrol called more than 180000 people illegally crossing the border. political and social commentator justin robert young told us that the situation is that a tipping point? we are one big, ugly moment away from what's happening on the border being a much larger problem for them. one dead child, one group of people that die from, from heat stroke and a photographer or a videographer or somebody, they're getting the kind of pictures and videos that tend to capture imagination if that's the case. and it can be tied to the fact that the by the ministration has been not great on this, then not only can it be damaging to them, but specifically with the mid terms coming up next year. it can force conversation

to be more on the border, which is not where the by the administration or anybody in congress on the democratic side wanted a special police unit has been disbanded in the german city of frankfort. its members are suspected of having shared far right content in a group chat. here's our europe correspond, peter oliver with more involved 17 actual front line and former and current front line members of the special task force or s k in front. for now, that's pretty much the equivalent of the swat team in the united states. so the special firearms command in the united kingdom. it also involves 3 senior offices who apparently knew what was going on and didn't act what it's understood is that this group charts were sharing fall right extremist messaging as well as nazi symbols. now it's prompted the interior minister of the state of hassle, where frankfort lies to despond. the unit saying that it needed to be over hold

completely the unacceptable misconduct of several employees, as well as the turning away of immediate superiors and the special task force of frankfort made its complete dissolution necessary. nothing that can remain as it was, even those who look the other way and thus fail to fulfil their direct superior ro must expect disciplinary consequences. this isn't the 1st time that we've seen fall right extremist activity in either the police or the military. here in germany, there's been a number of incidents over the last couple of years. i the the

route around to restructuring under way of special tactical police unit in have. both they, when they all restructured, will be firmly under the microscope as well as will police forces and the military across germany. after these claims these allegations of fall right extremism in the ranks are we also heard from benjamin gender, who represented police union in berlin. he says, officers are being unfairly targeted and it's putting huge pressure on the nothing nor does, does the police in some german states have received reports, right, wing extremist ideas. it's something that's happening in society. and when not isolated from it, there are $26000.00 employees in the berlin police and they include supporters of right wing extremist ideas. it's like alcoholism or drug addiction police human beings, just like everyone else is. the main thing is how we deal with it. how we recognize such people,

what steps fuel storage taking. i think it's obvious that there should be no extremist ideology, no matter what kind. it has no place in the police force. all this of course is already affecting people. just like these claims that we are all far right extremis . unfortunately, there is a tendency in the public to generalize. if one person is far right than immediately all 26000 employees. this of course, takes a toll on police officers. my colleagues do a great job and they sometimes work for 60 or 70 hours a week. they encounter incredible stress, and yet they carry out their gcs professionally. and despite this the next day, they are criticized by politicians. it's an attitude on the political level that makes people in lauren forestman want to find of the job sign of one france is defense minister said on friday that french troops may have killed a molly jihadist and linked to the kidnapping of death. 2 journalists back in 2013

. the news comes just after president micron announced the end of its bar. com anti terror operation in the sy, hell region of the west africa. now, french forces are expected to remain in the area as part of a broader international contingent the present you have don't get the continued presence of french operations cannot be a substitute for the return of the state and state services, political stability and sovereign decisions. we cannot keep secure in areas that then fall back into instability because the state decides not to take responsibility. it's impossible and never ending task with the french leader says that the number of bases will be reduced, but that several 100 special forces troops will stay in the region to work alongside other european and african armies. details of the withdrawal are expected to be finalized by the end of the month. france currently has troops stationed in 5 countries of africa. so hell region, molly, or can facile chad. martina and new share intervention was launched in molly back

in 2013 before was expanded under the operation by con to other countries in the nation. the region rather, excuse me, more than 5000 french troops were involved in the operation with 50, killed in the past 8 years. here's the view of african affairs analyst lawrence k friedman on the planned withdraw at a french pe very nasty will. in many of these government, all kinds of accusations, for example, in the qu and chide had a very strong indications that that this was a power coo and that the french may have looked the other way. the french of been accused of all kinds of activities. and they're not well liked in the area, but if you go back to the history of the say how this area remains desolate, there's no development desert area becoming more desert area for the north. you go to lack of a commitment by the french, by the united states, by europe,

to develop this area of friendship, use the military power. and there are 5000 forces of this operation to try to control the area and maybe even control some of the countries. and that's why there's a lot of resentment against the french or whether it's your birthday and you're watching from our control room or from the comfort of your home in singapore. this is our international, and we're glad i me and i make notes. certainly no borders and the blind number please. as emerge. we don't have authority, we don't, the whole world needs to take action and be ready. not a joke. people are judge governors crisis,

we can do better, we should be better. everyone is contributing each in their own way, but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is paid for the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes it feel very proud that we need together in the i

choose me. we're here in saint petersburg at the international economic form. and the topic of our program is the global economy. how is it changed since coven, for the winter, for the loses? what are the challenges and what are the opportunities the hello welcome. do so think of visionary me sophie shepard, not. what i'm certainty becomes our daily routine. when there are no answers to mounting questions would tend to search in the most unusual places. why do people

believe in conspiracy theories? well, i asked dr. michael shermer, psychologist, historian of science and founding publisher of skeptic magazine. doctor michael shermer, psychologist, historian of science and founding publisher of skeptic magazine. great. have you with us, michael? hi, nice to see you. all right, so a conspiracy theorist they've always been there, but or the last half a year. i mean the really started to multiply numbers. first we have the call it, which is a scam aim to impose more states raylon's that we have the g 5 towers. they are causing the virus, then we have the vaccines that contain satan's microchip. when, when you name it, is how you explained this trend. like the latest trend in general, people out of power tend to say that people in power have more power than they actually have. and that gives rise to kind of fuels these conspiracy theories that

anybody can concoct. and what, let's the construct concert series. what is the believe in conspiracy theories like it is some kind of mental virus that targets are rain? is it just in modern form or a superstition? i'm going to mentally the same as some kind of a medieval believe and it will spirits, what is it exactly? yeah, there are several factors going on. first, it's an explanation for causality. that is why do things happen? so you mentioned the middle ages, you know, so a, which was a theory of causality. why do storms and disasters, and plagues and, and so forth happen. and it's because wishes were cavorting with demons in the middle of the night. torched these women as demonic forces. well that went away once we had a scientific explanation for things like the weather and.