please keep the registering and keep the slot machines doing. this is a money machine is a huge cash register that is ran by people who don't care about people's lives being lost. the big, the, sorry, the weak g 7 leaders agree on a global infrastructure plan to compete with china's belton road initiative as the 1st day in person summit. since upon them it draws to closing the french president, get slapped to the face, will try to get up close and personal with a crowd of supposed supporters in the south of france. after its recent blocking agirri, twitter cries fall, calling an open and free into that a basic human right. at the same time, the social platform steadily senses its uses in the us. ah,

wanting love from oscar. they send the 13th to june. welcome to the weekly with me, kevin, in a recap of some of the main stories making headlines from us, brought you over the last 7 days and what happening still just about this weekend, tell end of it. the 1st g 7 in person summit since upon them coming to an end in the u. k. for joe biden is the 1st overseas trip of his presidency ahead of the summit by met with the host, british prime minister boris johnson. they signed the new atlantic charter based on an agreement that outlined the 2 countries goals after world war 2. the priority now though, according to the document cooperation, has for the g 7. the main talking points were the pandemic trade and climate change plus china and russia senior correspondent we're guilty of examines why much of that agenda. there was a bit of a blast for the past. america is back bad for watson. when

did it ever leave? whatever it is that it's coming back to from as unclear. at every point along the way, we're going to make it clear that united states is back. and democracies of the world are standing together to tackle the toughest challenges and the issues that matter most to our future. well, that's good. suddenly again, i can't remember them ever leaving, but if you are coming back to things you never left, then why the heck not some things you've already signed. all reverts like atlantic charter building on the commitments and aspirations that are 80 years ago. the firms are ongoing commitment to sustaining our enduring values and defending them against new and old challenges. so they're defending democracy, defending nato, defending trade, which american britain have done admirably if a tad violently but that's the rule. they will now seek to combat cyber threats.

climate change in the pandemic. there's so much to do and what better way to start than with tv jukes. so the prime minister of so they both very i'm not sure i'm going to disagree already on the else. perhaps what may be construed as new is that button seems hell bent on returning a tool to the glory days of the cold war. and has, you've been clear the united states will respond in a robust and meaningful way. and the russian government engages and harmful activities. we've already demonstrated that except we've had the same thing in various forms. for now on a century. if it isn't russia, it's yes, china, we will focus on ensuring that market democracy's not china or anyone else, right? the 21st century rules around trade and technology,

and we will continue to pursue the goal of a europe whole free and at peace. biden. once the resurrect, i know monster the cold war with vos, standing armies with military spending a vase blog to crush the competition and the competition. and he's in russia, the competition is china, which america still doesn't have a non so for. meantime the g 7 leaders have come up with an answer to china as belt and road initiative by backing us plans for vast global infrastructure. dr. white has statement plagues the build back better world plan will raise public and private funds to close the infrastructure gap for poor nations. although some g 7 states including germany in italy, of res, big doubts about open rivalry with paging. that bell road initiative was set up back in 2013 to try to link schools, countries by railroad, and see notably across africa and asia. so now while the g 7 lead is to compete

with that in the sphere of infrastructure ahead of the summit, the chairman of the u. s. joint chiefs of staff singled out china and russia as the biggest global threats from a military standpoint. a guest shared with us their perspective on the u. s. pressure on china at the moment. the 1st we have same success of escalating containment strategies against china. so it's 1999, each one failing. and now it's by turn, the u. s. desperate to sustain and re enforce its global hegemony. already seen some hesitation from germany and italy and practice of the existing system already dominated by the same countries should be reformed and made more equitable. if this is really just an effort to build an anti china block and its human cost will outweigh its benefits. and that's a real possibility. here. we see a long term go to fries china out. and i don't think that the us reverse course and work with china on something like this, particularly after poisoning the well looking at to try to recover rhetoric over

the last few years. well, i wonder if i fallen asleep and waking up when woken up in 1978 or something, you know it's, it's, it's unbelievable that we need to find a new atlantic lines. what is the atlantic? we have no idea what the atlantic is, the atlantic has been certainly since the end of the cold war, european countries incapable of developing their own independence, foreign and domestic and economic policy basically blindly following the united states into places like afghanistan and syria and libya and miss adventure after misadventure. china is the big enemy of the defense secretary austin said we have to start acting like china is the and the mean not just thinking like they're the enemy and this is how it works. this is how the u. s. military industrial complex works, you invented enemy words, the global war on terrorism, or the global fight against co, good, or the global fight against china. you invent these bogey men, and then you spend hundreds and hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars that

go into the pockets of well connected companies. well connected, think tanks in the washington beltway, and that's what keeps the machine going with the machine is going to end. because the american economy is about to collapse, its teetering on the edge of collapse, just got cameras clicking next to my new macro and getting a nasty shock on tuesday during a visit to the south of france, where he was trying to draw up support for his election campaign, he walked up to a barrier, then decreed locals. and this is what happened next. the 2 men who being arrested following that assault on president macro and the 1st time that you've been physically assaulted since becoming president. that happens in the south of france near the city of valencia. and as you saw in that video, president mike on exits the hotel school where he's been taking a visit. he walked towards a crowd of people who are all behind the metal barrier. the president michael put

his hand on a man's on the man that grabs back president michael. before administering the all mighty slap, the security agency immediately intervened in 2 individuals were taken into custody for wilful violence against the person holding public authority. now that's an offense, it's taken pretty seriously here in france, and could see somebody put in jail for up to 3 years as well as paying a fine, a 45000 years. but of course, that would be up for a judge to decide how lenient they may wish to be. and of course, for an individual to be found guilty of the offense. and you might have caught just the end of that video. somebody shouting down with macro ism and there is a suggestion that the individuals behind this assault own, the president or yellow vest involved and unauthorized process earlier in the day. but the reality is what this is shown is that there is still an under current to

present to and again president michael and his policies. those have been passed. the reforms as well as those he's attempted to pass to the front. and i bet housing is managed to do so or how to move them down slightly. there's been a huge reaction hearing problem including coming from the government, the prime minister showing cas 6 saying that this was an attack on democracy. they because she was an attorney loose pass your said. so does it. democracy is debate. dialogue is confrontation, the expression of legitimate disagreement, but it can in no way be violent, verbal, aggression, and even less physical aggression. we are all concerned, it is the foundations of our democracy through the head of state. it is democracy that is targeted. you're also we've heard from a political policy from across the political spectrum with opposition leaders pretty much on the same page. very rare hearing from all saying that this is simply

unacceptable. while democratic debate can bitter, it can never tolerate physical violence. i strongly condemn the unacceptable physical aggression targeting the president of the republic. this time, are you starting to understand that violent people are taking action? i stand in solidarity with the president. well, president, my call is currently or not toward from says it's been cold. he's taking the temperature, testing it to see whether or not he should be running in next is presidential election. he hasn't officially said he's going to, but the idea that he's making this visit is seen as many as a pre election tool. and it seems as we get closer and closer to the election, we like to see more of that resentment coming through. but for the moment in front present, my phone, assaulted with 2 individuals in the south of france, now under arrest wound full violence against the person holding public authority.

yet more details came out. the attack was 28 year old damien taro. he was sentenced to 4 months in prison with an additional 14 month suspended sentence. tara was also banned from ever holding public office and from owning weapons for 5 years. at the same time, that slap episode provoked an avalanche jokes and names on line as these things do with twitter, in particular saying, numerous political character choose. mocking. micron columnist, alexis poland, says, said sir, mac kron who's been slapping the french people in the face. though we quite believe this is where a manual micro is power lies. in other words, it's the ultra personalized and centralized power of the president. obviously, there are still people who are ready to break through rows of riot police to get the president. violence is unacceptable and we see how representatives of political communities unanimously condemned to slap in the face. but in a sense, the manu macro himself represents violence because it's he who authorized mused normally for weapons by law enforcement agencies. that is why many protests were

injured last the eyesight during the yellow vest demonstration. there is a huge gap between the manual microns outlandish promises and what he is doing, which is nothing more than a constant communications and marketing campaign. the more he wants to getting tends to return to considering pension reforms, he always has some unpleasant remark and his arsenal. it is he who constantly slaps the french people during his public speeches, and now he gets a slap in the face himself, which of course deserves condemnation. since he is not the dorothy figure, the slot, made it through microns of personal security. god, this is a lesson for all of us state department, along with some western diplomatic missions is called in the gerry and government to reverse a recent ban on twitter. it also condemned threats to arrested uses nigeria outlaw the social media networks. it persistently was used to undermine the countries existence. it comes out to the platform, deleted the post and by the jury and president, which warned local separatists of consequences unless they relented. but while

twitter claims of free and open internet and essential human, right, as he goes down off reports makes, it appears to operate according to different principles. the free speech wing of the free speech parking. this is how twitter executives love to define that platform. the self righteousness of this is only matched by how far the twitter executives are detached from reality lately, the band, the jury and president over this to eat. many of those misbehaving too, too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the nigerian civil war. those of us in the fields for 13 months, who went through the war will treat them in the language that understand, taught or moderator may not be able to find nigeria on the math. but apparently, their interpretation of the country's history is more accurate than the presidents who obviously wasn't impressed. and he's government wasn't taking any of that.

where people, one morning politicians are going to policemen a jury duty and us for today. it was about the right to protect what is similar to happened when the capital he became you selection when i'm going to be fooled by anybody wherever you're going to to room. how do for the rest of our ability. twitter wasn't ready for that, and it is hard to judge them for it. they had already successfully band one of the most powerful men in the world and got away with a consequence. free nigeria though, did something about it. the or das, it's he, we are deeply concerned by the blocking of twitter in nigeria. access to the free

and open internet isn't essential, human rights in modern society. just put everything down for a 2nd, appreciate the absolute, logical pandemonium. here with me, twitter, which is very trigger happy over an arbitrary set of rules to deny people the right to speak out is trying to be a champion of free speech. you can't make this up, but the band caught the eye of some politicians who condemned it. diplomatic missions of canada, the european union, the republic of ireland, the united kingdom and the united states of america, convey our disappointment over the government of nigeria as announcement suspending twitter. funding systems of expression is not the answer. these measures inhibit access to information and commerce and some other politicians who in turn got ideas. twitter noncompliance with our rules will lead to an intended consequences including twitter losing exemption from liability as an intermediary the

information most time, even if it appears very attractive candidate, tend to foreign state how to live, how to interpret historical events, what movies to watch, or what music to listen to otherwise, instead of freedom of speech, it becomes a dictatorship of opinion for sole purpose. and perhaps more efficient should take a closer look at nigeria handling this. because if banding a precedent over an opinion somehow made it into twitters definition of free speech, we all need a, in how to deal with big tech tyranny. twitter has no business deciding on what geo political figures have to say about anything because they're not. they're not informed enough to the to do so they're just are responding based on their own political prejudices with very little knowledge about what the situation involve. especially in nigeria, twitter is pretending to be the government of the world along with other social

media platforms. they are trying to institute their own sort of governmental power . the social media platform combined have more power than all the nations of the world. and in fact, to all the states in the world, in terms of political influence. so no, this is not surprising and it's not, i'm warranted that these nations would be trying to her. twitter is political power a video of an american father, daughter, joe, speaking out against and i did known as critical race theory, went viral on social media in the week. it submitted an ongoing debate in the us over the role of this approach to racial studies in education and politics. your black or white or any doesn't matter if you're black, white, brown. yeah. right. black in how we treat people is based on who they are and

whether or not this is how choosing think, right in critical race nearing want to in now we, my children are not going to happen. so our video has been re posted to twitter. it's called more than 2000000 views. the theory itself was put forward 40 years ago, and essentially suggests that racism is systemic within society. but it's been widely criticized along the way with many calling for a bio on its teaching now in schools for being divisive and damaging to students, but call again a nail spoke to the man behind the video you saw there. i just think people are waking up to what's going on in the vision that's been going on and i think people are tired. man, there are teachers that are tar that are writing me people going up to school boards now. yeah, i think people want to stand up because they see that they're trying to brainwash our children into seeing each other for the color they are and not the character

that they are. how would you describe corey, why critical race theory as proof, so divisive? i would say when you tell any group of people that their whole pressures, because of the color of their skin and you tell the other group that they are a pressed because of the color and they're seeing, you're going to find push back. you are going to see people standing up. we know a martin luther king said, right just by the content of our cares and the color of our scheme. and when we see people trying to implement that into our schools, on to our children, you're going to see pushback. you haven't held back talking, but black lives matter either. you said the movement is for the destruction of america under families. can you just open up and why did you say that? well, the co founder said she was a marxist. so we know what marxism leads to and that's communism that socialism. so for me and for america, that's not what we're about. it appears that was totally unacceptable for most of

this can be easily excuse if you remember the bible family, the liberal media that the us had turned a blind eye to joe biden, son fully using the n word in his personal text messages. while you may recall an alleged tape with the former american president, donald trump drop in the same word called years of bitter cry, occurs for the trunk. it took a closer look, a bit of contrast for you from the biden family courting the intelligence community . terrorism white supremacy is the most lethal threat to homeland today. not isis? not a kind of white supremacy. yes. why did i say from the biden family, you must have recognized joe biden, and whose speech commemorating the deaths of hundreds of black people at the hands of a white mob a century ago, in tulsa as well. and the text with the n word were recovered by the daily mail

outlet from the abandoned laptop of the president, son hunter. you'd think the shocking races banter by the commander in chief's closest relative would spark. i'm again on tv. nope. the u. s. mainstream media aren't too bothered, but what if the laptop belong to the son of donald trump? they would lose their damn mines. it would be the number one story on c, n, n m s, n, b, c, and the usual outlets for week straight. but amazingly, they're 100 percent silent. fullness may be the silences because the story is a bit too old. oh, come on. when did that stop the corporate networks? and to prove that from junior does have a point. here's a story to compared with back in 20 thing, a former white house employee claimed from staffers had been aware of an alleged tape with the ex president saying the n word. years earlier when he hosted the apprentice. the existence of such recordings was never proven,

but the claims were all over the prime time news. what does it say about this president that his own press secretary says she cannot guarantee that there isn't a tape of donald trump using the word anamosa has a recording that she says she recently made that see she secretly made of her firing by john kelly claimed by his former adviser and reality tv costar, alma, rossa mangold newman, that she heard mr. trump used racial insult. but the last name of the man who apparently wrote this is biden, not trump, so chill. all right, not so easy. the republicans won't chill over the hypocritical reporting. plus there's an outcry on social media with the races hunter hash tag trending is hunter by the white nationalist. now, what does this term only apply to republicans? this is disgusting and unacceptable. i can't help. but notice the silence from cnn and countless woke celebrities. weird how everyone has creamed about racism. white

supremacy for the last 4 years are completely silent about member of the 1st family hunter biden, using the n word multiple times along with races, stereotypes, and means. perhaps you can't afford to be a little careless with laptops. as long as you know you've always got the behemoth of the liberal media at your back. the business of exploiting racism is exclusively a democrat policy if anyone else was using the n word in casual communications that were private like e mails with friends or colleagues, they would be burned at the stake publicly for having done so. and meanwhile, here we are with hunter biden doing an imprint, but you don't see it on the mainstream media because they're protecting democrats, especially biden's, and you're never going to find out about it's a unique privilege to be protected by the media when you're doing things that are totally unacceptable. hunter biden has the privilege of all the 2020 old saying

that in 2021. with the 2020 european football championship funding kicked off this week to the after being postponed from last year. because the pandemic, 3 games have so far been played, including russia's match against a group, favors belgium in front of 832000 strong home crowd in some pay. this book, belgium team, ultimately one the match 3, know the tournaments being held in 11 different countries with russia. hosting 7 games, a correspondent alex here. jessica and the weak gave us this pre much look at what funds can expect here. euro 20 twenties, a football tournament, stretching across the 4 corners of the continent and russia's northern capital. st . petersburg has an extended role to play while other nations have struggled to get funds back into the grounds. due to corporate 19, russia host at 50 percent of stadiums. for the majority of its domestic season and for the euro, 2020 st. petersburg is ready to make some noise. there is

a serious football vibe to the so called venice of the north. it is the home to venice, champions of russia for the last 3 seasons. what place could be better as one of the host cities for the euros, even more fans will be impressed with what's available in the city. the opportunities in st. petersburg and the rich culture is a truly wonderful place with endless possibilities. especially in summer coach and entertainment to yes, especially in the summer. very impressive, 2018 world cup and russia managed to sway officials so much that this stadium here in st. petersburg will also host the you way for champions league final next year. and as other cities across the continent failed to meet the anti corporate 19 criteria, this city stepped right up, only wembley in london will host more euro 2020 fixtures than this stadium here in st. petersburg. i know that you a 5 doing everything possible to ensure that the european championship is

a success particular attention has been paid to the media and accreditation for journalists, it's extremely difficult to organize such a large scale international event given the situation in the world today. i can tell you that i have not come across such a constructive attitude from all involved parties for a long time. we cannot hide from the fact that life and sport i a very different world. now, you are 2022 taking place in 20. 21 is the perfect reminder of how the pandemic has impacted on europe. but this tournament will be the litmus test for you a to and was been a listless yen. a half for football, russia kept its stadiums open to a large percentage of fans throughout the season. and this was a rather unpopular decision at 1st, but gradually turned into pride because we talking about real fans here, not cardboard cutouts or pre recorded fake noise. now you a for granted st. petersburg stadium, a 50 percent capacity quarter for the 7 games of euro 2020. and we're talking about

30000 live fans at this very ground. an agreement is also in place to allow traveling funds from abroad without any of these requirements if they have a ticket, a fan id and a negative bcr test. so russia is waiting for you with open restaurant, bob, and just remember to keep the strict anti corbet measures, but that is the price many fans more than willing to pay. it's an amazing opportunity that we got inexpensively because some european countries could not host matches and we always count and they can, we can, are you happy with an organization? it's great when we were the world cup, things were slower. here, everything is better. i wish everyone felt the same way though. denmark opened it stadium still local fans, but not allowing any russian fans inside. and russia is to play denmark in

copenhagen. and even before ball has been kicked, politics is already making headlines. first ukraine teams kit stage with political message is then as thereby johnny officials blocking accreditation for i saw a commentator in russia because of his armenian roots. football just wants to pass around all this mess for rest assured when the turn kicks off from one kid. here and in the other 10 host cities, this is the moment many have been waiting for and hopefully a turning point for spawn. i'm quality like yourself, the reporting from st. peter's back. yet it's got some pages, but it doesn't it. well, that's the way is some of the stories who brought you over the last 7 days? pan that look at what's happening right now on a site. don't come across 247, but it moscow, kevin, now in the team thanking you for watching r t international. ah,

join me every 1st day on the alex simon show. when i was speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then me the in the me i don't well control the parts. i know, you know, we all know that the earth orbit the sun, but this statement of fact wasn't always widely accepted for centuries ago. it was

so controversial that the catholic church actually considered it a heresy. now, fast forward to the 21st century debate around extra terrestrials and you know, just a similar thing. those who hi prophesies their existence, i feel treated as a prostate. why song? well, to discuss that i'm now joined by abbey, low professor of science at harvard university and author of extra terrestrial, the 1st sign of intelligent life beyond the earth. now dr. low, it's so great to talk to you on such a fascinating subject. thank you very much. for finding the time, thanks for hosting me. now i have to say to harvard and extra terrestrial life is not the most common combination of words. and i know that you gave many years to studying conventional cosmick stuff like a black hole than the 1st stars. i one day.