ah ah, the in the story that shape the weekend, art you international mass rallies and statues toppled a canadian, spent their anger after the remains of more than a 1000 children are found at a former indigenous residential school run by the catholic church. join assange marked his 50th birthday behind bars as a witness in the case against him, apparently admits to line with some saying it could be a crucial blow to american legal action against the wicked league founder and the highly infectious delta strain of the corona virus plunges russia into a new wave of the pandemic and prompts moscow to make coven status passes.

mandatory if you want to access restaurants and cafes, we put the new system to the test. time officially inside a coven. i get. get rid of the mask. ah! but kathy, my direct from our studios in moscow, this is our international, sean thomas, certainly glad to have with us. as we recap, the week's top stories, canada has seen anger spilling onto the streets with mass rallies after the discoveries of the remains of more than a 1000 children. at former indigenous residential schools. cities cancelled national day celebrations, while in winnepeg, the statues of queen victoria and queen elizabeth the 2nd were toppled and defaced . the

for the british whales are seen to represent canada as colonial passed, and red paint was dogged over the fallen statue of queen victoria. while the british prime ministers spokesperson condemned any de facing of statues of the queen, or he's alex mikhail of inch, looks back at what led to the latest anger. after discovery, the latest one was on one stay 182 bodies founded cranbrook british columbia. this is close to a residential school. they use basically a radar that looks under ground. and that's where they found these people in unmarked graves that adds to the initial finding, which happened on may 27th. and we can loops british columbia at another residential school of 215 people, as young as 3 years old in one mark, grace. and then of course the sketch one which was the biggest find so far, $751.00 people. so you add all these numbers up over a 1000 people found, but we have over 130 schools like this across canada.

ah, you learn not trying. you just get harder. and yeah, you learn to shut down every day was you were in constant fear that your hope was that it wasn't you today. it was going to be the target, the victim. the program started in the late 18 hundreds and laughed at all the way up to 1996. when the last school was close, that 150000 native children ripped out of their families, arms and put into the schools. they were forced to go to the schools, the royal canadian mounted police were complicit in that they were the ones that would take the children from their families to the schools that were run primarily by the catholic church at about 60 percent, but also anglican protest and other smaller churches across the country, the levels of the abuse that we found at these schools was absolutely mind blowing . i just have to read something for you quickly. this is at 19

o. 7 report for the department of indian affairs is called the bryce report, documented 40 to 60 percent mortality rate in the schools mostly of tuberculosis and then a 90 to 100 percent of these children. this is unbelievable suffered either from physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. we still have rates of 80 percent abuse on these 1st nations because of this legacy left behind by these churches and the canadian government, which funded all of these programs. so canadians are demanding that the government do something about this. we did have a back in 2015 a commission that, that said that this was a cultural genocide. they did very little about it up to now. now people are demanding the prime minister. do something about it and the prime minister, as well as indigenous communities, are demanding an apology from the catholic church. i really hope at this time it will lead towards the pope coming on to the canadian soil. an apology.

apologizing directly for the responsibility that the catholic church shares in this part of our history now and what is believed to be a reaction to what has happened in the past month or so is the churches are being burned down on need of communities and close to residential schools, we've heard of 5 in british columbia to and berta at one all the way at the other side of the country in nova scotia. ah, ah. the prime minister has said that destroying places of worship is not the way to go, obviously. but at the same time, canadians are looking at the situation in a much broader perspective. hopefully canada will do more. and that's exactly what canadians are demanding. at this point. please say the church fires mentioned there

could be arson and related to the discovery of the great canadian prime minister called the alleged attacks unacceptable and wrong from the indigenous community about the gruesome discoveries of the children's remains. it was a genocide and you look at it, the whole point of the residential school was to take the indian out of the indian to get rid of our language, get rid of our culture and children died. every 1st nation person is feeling the impact of the residential schools. my grandmother attended my grandfather attended thankfully, my mother didn't have to attend, but she still feels the impacts on it on a daily basis. it is a developed country. it is a one, you know, a g 7 countries, but internally, canada, it's, we're at a point where we're reflecting internally, the grave sites are the conversation, but the impact of colonization,

of ripping apart families. and today we are seeing the aftermath of that. it brings out anger in some it brings out frustration moving forward. what we have to do is the truth and reconciliation call. the can't to action. we implement those. we will be a way more developed country within one generation. there are some tough days ahead of us, but the end goal is to co exist as, as we should have at the beginning. hundreds of join a song supporters gathered in london and new york on saturday to celebrate his 50th birthday. but it is the 3rd birthday, the wicked legs foundry has now spent in a british jail. washington seeking his expedition to the u. s. for publishing classified material, and it found guilty he could be sentenced up to 175 years now. however, a major witness in the u. s. case against him has reportedly admitted to giving false testimony. in iceland,

a newspaper says to go to the door toward us and told them his key allegations that assange asked him to have computers and phones are not true. this activity was said include attempts to hack into the computers of members of parliament, a record that conversations, in fact, thought us. and now mr. stunt in that the thunder never asked him to hack or access phone recordings of m p. 's revelations are seen as a major setback for washington, with some calling the admission fatal to america's case against assange with fellow whistleblower edward snowden. among them this is the end of the case against julian assad. if biden continues to seek the extradition of a publisher under an indictment poison top to bottom, with false testimony admitted by its own star, witness the damage to the united states, reputation and press freedom would last for a generation. it's unavoidable. we spoke to a friend of julia sans who gave him refuge back in 2010 british journalist von

smith says the charges against the wiki leagues founder paternalism, on the wrong side of the law. he's got some serious health issues which have been getting worse and worse and worse psychologically. he's under extraordinary stress as you can well imagine. he's had one of the most horrible lockdown that i think anybody we could possibly think of has you know, mostly in solitary confinement. about 23 all the day. he's got very poor communications. they went in public communicate downside, well, it's very hard for him to defend it. so i think it's absolutely devastating to the case again. i, you know, it also completely undermines america's case, but one has to observe that this was brought up under the previous administration must be the current administration on the biden, bearing in mind the previous administration on the bottom. so not to follow this procedure against junior sounds because they were aware of the impact it was going

to have on journalism. these charges criminalized basic dental practices, which is why it's so surprising that the british american media don't change and making much of what's happened with this. these are devastating. he is basically said, he's explaining how he law to frame julian to try and say to say, then skin, mainstream media, who spends a lot of time writing negatively about you haven't really picked up on this fold offs and story. and, you know, i'm shocked about. i feel like it's there obliged to talk about the 60s. i'm salute the central to so that their own ability to report moscow intensified it's covered vaccination campaign last week with the highly contagious delta strain of the virus dominating new infections. booster jobs were initially meant to be given every year. however, because of the current surgeon cases,

doctors are now advising a new shot every 6 months. the mayor of moscow says both splitting the v and it's light very into are suitable for the job. right now the capital campaign comes as delta strain infections jump nationwide. the countries case load more than doubled over the course of june and peaked at 25000 daily infections by this morning of those moscow registered more than 7 and a half 1000 new cases. the rise has prompted the city to introduce a mandatory coven status pass that grants archive antibodies or a negative p. c. r test. that is no more than 3 days old. on he's konstantin ross, golf. put his own cure code to the test. this is my q r code, something party goers now can't live without in moscow since this has become one of the only way to get into a restaurant or bar here. so i decided to investigate how the system works and whether it actually does it all. so let's now go to

a couple of places here together and start off with one of the most popular places my neighborhood, and usually have lots of customers all day long. i also brought my son along. he hasn't been vaccinated and he hasn't had cobra. so he doesn't have a q r code. so we're going to see if this is going to be a problem. there was a line outside find out what's going on. so i think i got a note that you are not saying there's nothing in the guy that is for them. well, it turned out my local fast food restaurant was serving, take away orders only knowing door dining was allowed regardless of vaccination status. when you go, when you put the order for them, and you said apparently not every

restaurant in moscow was able to organize q r code scanning in time. anyway, there was another place across the street. we decided to check our, our more for them this time the staff did have the necessary equipment, which is just a regular smartphone by the way. but there's something weird happened. my q r code didn't work. the i had to go to a government website, download the q r code again, and it finally worked. but then something else came up in moscow, you need to show your vaccination certificate it along with an id. i had a password on me, but my wife had only a drivers license. even though having a password is not a rule, we were denied indoors service. they only let us sit outside on a terrace. bottom line is that we were denied to dining at the 2nd place this

morning. so i'm gonna keep looking for the right spot. and finally, we managed to get through the turkish restaurant. everything went on without a hitch. they also let our 8 year old unvaccinated kid in, as we were told. young children are allowed inside if their parents have valid q r code fishery inside a coven free. i can't get rid of the mask. yes, once you're inside your back to the free coven era, no masks or social distance are required. as you can see, it's pretty deserted. i think that we are the only customers at the moment. there are 2 more people out there, but otherwise it's pretty empty. for vaccinated customers, the immediate benefits are quite obvious. now,

there are always plenty of tables available and you can enjoy. where's this undivided attention for? for an owner is though things might not look as if it was the fact that this system has been introduced across moscow. so people accept it, they come prepared and even say that they have a cure code straight away. but at the same time it's summer now and they still prefer to relax on the veranda. the fact that we have some are veranda helps of course, guest without cure codes, concede there, but it's too early to talk about how many customers we've lost because of this policy. we have to wait and see what it shows up on the. so this is apparently something both citizens and restaurants will have to become used to at least wild cove. it is still raging. and even though a couple of months ago, people were extremely skeptical about getting the job. in the past couple of weeks, moscow authorities receive more than 80000 vaccination request a de fuel the hopes that one day moscow will eventually escape from cove its loss

custody raska r t from moscow. now, while imposing new demands on businesses, moscow is also rewarding people who are sticking to the rules. restaurants following q r code policy will receive subsidies on their utility bills and the 1st 100 businesses to have 60 percent of their staff fully vaccinated will also get money from the government. and looking at the bigger picture, the delta strain has spread it to about $100.00 countries. in france, it accounts for 20 percent of new cases and in britain is almost 100 percent. we spoke to the world health organizations, special envoy for covered about how best to manage the risk of the virus at the moment. we can be 100 percent certain the vaccine use that we have at the moment will protect us against all possible versions of this virus. so therefore, we should be accepting the vaccines will reduce our risk of getting coven,

quite honestly, actually. but they're not going to guarantee and therefore, what we're saying is use vaccines as part of your control effort. but also, why not just keep going with the physical distance in the one me to row? why not keep going with mar, squaring? why not keep going with really good hygiene? why not keep going with isolation when you're sick? why not keep going with protecting elderly people and those who got other diseases potentially with the back scenes because they are really good protective. if there is the perception conveyed to the population of any country, that basically we're all going to say we're going to break the 3 break free and we're not going to be troubled by the virus. and there's no turning back. it's

a bit of a hostage to fortune just supposed, as far as takes advantage of the freedom day, and really spreads an awful lot and you end up with their situation of a lot of sickness and considerable debt plus distress. and if somebody is running a hotel or running an airline, no running an airport or running a festival, if day, you can have quick tests at the entrance and then quick daily checkups with tests again for participants go, it would make such a difference. so yes, i'm super keen on frequent reliable, inexpensive tex interest to them talks any regret and it doesn't exist. parades and fireworks are being held across the us to mark independence day. but the very symbols meant to bring the nation together and stand for unity are also splitting people apart. but i got you have comments nothing. both americans as

close together as the 4th of july, a day of unity of solidarity of coleman spirit, who it was merican thought that they had an identity to cute, to find the miracle. i defy you to tell me what constitutes an american can do it with incredibly diverse democracy. what makes it american mal, apparently not even the president knows that being a patriot lesson serving in the marines paying taxes. is that waving the flag, putting up the stars and stripes and poll outside your house? know that according to the media, just might make you of fanatical republican. today flying the american flag from the back of a pickup truck or over a lawn is increasingly seen as a clue all be. it's an imperfect one to a person's political affiliation in

a deeply divided nation. while they're right about division, which the media cause flat and inflamed in the name of ad revenue, but it's everywhere. people see everything differently. everyone has an opinion that they'd rather that rather die than give up. everything is a battle ground, race, religion, booting sex, orientation, police, immigration, and war. there is almost nothing left that americans agree on, have the flag symbol of unity as now a symbol of oppression. it is chatted dated, divisive and incorrect. it no longer represents democracy and freedom, it no longer represents all of us. it's not fair to be forced to honor aid. it's signed for a new flag. what if the flag looked like this? and just like that out of the sheet as soon you can see it a little way down the road protests and counter protests about changing the flag

rods and shootings and enmity. because one person's idea is abominable to another. you found it on an idea. we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men and women are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, life, liberty, to pursue happiness, sounds corny, to america. we learn and this is grade school and high school. and the idea that seems to have expired, what do they learn in schools now? critical race theory, the idea that white is bad, the idea that no, we were created equal, but we didn't leave equal. and that racism has tainted every aspect of institutional america. that's what they learned in school. now, a far cry from created equal. you talk about critical race theory, which is pretty much gonna be teaching to how to hate each other. how to do

okay, it's pretty much all come down to, you know, deliberately, pcs. why do you right here? got it better you because he why you go partly so why? oh, the black people are all down and how do i have to know who breathed senior oprah, this is your black or white or any? doesn't matter if you're black, why brown? yeah. right. in how we treat people is based on who they are and what are you in this is, this is our choosing things right here. critical race nearing want to in now we, my children are not going to happen. one couldn't only wonder how the land they going to go off the asian americans next. and then latino is paps, maybe a few decades down the line and the sick twist of already they'll turn it against african americans at the end of the day, america is bursting at the seams. it's. it's not over population. it's over belief

where everyone has an idea that they think is better than everyone else's, and they demand that people respect it. here is the real problem. you have people to day, independent of any history saying we want to have the black national anthem. maybe we want to have the l g, b, g, q, i a national anthem. and you have people in corporate structures in various governmental entities who say, fine, we'll do whatever you want. we'll recognize that to some people, america is whatever they say it is. shake a rorschach test. you look at a cloud, you see a bunny. i see a dog. it's our interpretation. that's where we are right now. and we're going through this i guess his version of it words,

we make it up as we go along. and i, to me, in my humble opinion, i think this is, this is temporary, i think we always go through this in one form or another. and eventually things will somewhat shuttled down. but it's, it's most disconcerting to some people who believed that there was a degree of solidity and permanence to american history. but to other people, they make it up as they go along. the white house has tried to cash in on the 4th of july celebrations by claiming credit for cheaper barbecues, but not everybody is hot on the claim to savings of just $0.16 planning a cook out this year. ketchup on the news. according to the farm bureau, the cost of a 4th of july barbecue is down from last year. it's a fact. you must heard hot dog. the biden economic plan is working. and that's

something we can all rubbish. look what i got from the grocery store with the $0.16 . i saved. thanks biden. wow. what will we peasants do with that big 16 samson savings. the possibilities are endless. where would $0.16 have been significant savings? $800.00. 23. alright, the hot dog prices may be down, but inflation has driven us gasoline prices up by a dollar since last year. electricity and overall food prices are on the up as well, with inflation at its highest 2008. however, the white house thinks that people should focus on the 3000000 jobs created since biden came to power. have think $0.16 awful barbecue had more of an impact on people's lives than gas being a dollar more this time. i would say, if you don't like hotdogs, you may not care of the reduction of cost. you don't have to like i thought if i put it on for 6 reduction, i will say that what we're most focus on is the fact that we've created now more

than 3000000 jobs since the president took office. political analyst, dakota, lily told us the white house boasting about saving $0.16 does show us just how out of touch it really is. there hasn't really been a president in a very, very long time that has taken the const taken into consideration. the effects of their policy is on the workers, and i think that's the most important thing to take away from this place. they really think that $0.16 is amazing, and we're going to go out to the streets and, you know, show our love for president biden. over $0.16, i haven't seen much effort on the, by an administration to pursue any sort of economic policy that i think will have any bearing right now would be a fabulous time for federal jobs guarantee. universal job guarantees. you know, we have unemployment numbers, they talk about the 3000000 jobs that they've created, but how long has under employment and people who are working part time that want to

work full time. you know, there's real unemployment numbers are much higher there, at least in the double digits. and even at the same time, does it really matter if $3000000.00 jobs are created? if they're all created at mcdonald's, wendy's target and walmart, not really. people want gainful employment and the federal government could provide that, but they chosen not to even s. the economy is growing at an accelerated pace. even if you know the economy, g, d p is expanding. how much does that actually translate into people's everyday lives? 32 and a half minutes. that's when i'll be back with another look at your weekly. this is our international, seamless me. i use the join me every thursday on the alex, silent 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 the me, the me a ton of wealth into all the parts. much of the 20th century, access to oil and gas was one of the chief drivers of geo politics, feeling conflicts and charging alliances. is this fight against climate change with small countries to trade carbons for alex jones? what will be shifting energy balance due to the balance of power? well, to discuss that and now joined by angela wilkinson,

secretary general and sealed on the world energy council. dr. wilkinson. it's great to talk to you. thank you very much for finding the time. it's a pleasure, it's lovely to be here in saint petersburg and that now every now and then the international community comes up with certain bosworth that per political speeches . and right now it's an energy transition, the replacement of fossil fuels with renewables for tristan generation. how far along are we into this process? there has been many energy transitions. we happen to be in a certain era of energy transmission, which is the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. but they've been previous transitions. we could think about the transition from biofuels would already we bend oregon, and then we discovered coal, coal safe, the foreign when we found oil oil safe, the whale. and now we're in an area where we're trying to save the planet. we want to be able to use energy and have better lives, but also to live on

a healthy planet. and the challenge is the energy. it's the emissions of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases that we're trying to manage and as many different ways doing that. so transition has begun where in transition, and it's proceeding along many different routes and half way and how far along are read into this process? i read only in the beginning stage or, you know, somewhere let's say because many countries are talking now about the carbon is ation horizon. i think 75 percent of them have already said certain goals doesn't mean that we are pretty much advanced internet richer if we, i mean the, the energy system has been comp and i think with the cheaper in producing less carbon for more energy for century. but what we're trying to do with accelerates the pace about scientists say that we need to be below 2 degrees.