some of the luck on the none of my new middle charts that exam on. so i the protests is empty stadiums and a coven infected village of athletes. not quite the opening ceremony. the olympics is helping for the tokyo games get underway. and so much for rule britannia, for tiny a rule, the wave questions are raised over the decline of what was one of the most powerful navy in the world. as it turns out, just one naval destroyer is fully operational. now, following a recent wave of protests in cuba, us imposes a new round of sanctions against the caribbean island nation, showing that even under its new administration, the u. s. is not backing down on its long time rival anytime soon.

you know. and ben and jerry's ice cream gets frozen out of israel after the companies stop the sales and occupied palestinian territory economic terrorism or support for human rights. we debate the issue an american company caving in to, to, to a mob and demand. they can take a moral stand and say, well, i don't want to do anything with that product ah, for pm here in the russian capital and you're watching r t international. i'm your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. or the opening ceremony for the long awaited tokyo summer games is now underway. but the atmosphere is far from being as festive as people had hoped for cobra. cases at the event have jumped to $110.00 with 13 of those being among the athletes. and as

opening fireworks lit up the stadium, there was a protest sparked by concerns that the coven caseload will only continue to grow. still, the president of the internation limpid committee insist that the games can be held safely with restrictions. meaning that for the 1st time in history, no spectators are allowed to attend, as are easily katrinka reports this controversy doesn't end there. the whole world is talking about how the pandemic has taken its toll on the olympics. and it's clear the games will be the oddest, most unusual, weird. choose whichever word you like. in history, it looks as if the number one, elliptic official just wanted to go with the flow of weirdness when he got the nation that's hosting the big event wrong. and i were coming target is safe and secure games for everybody, for the athletes, and for all the delegations,

and most importantly, also for the chinese people, project nice people. anyway, the locals won't be able to enjoy any of the actual arena vibes because the arena's are supposed to be empty. and so the newly updated a limping moto faster. higher, stronger, together also sounds a bit weird. physically, there ain't going to be that many people in tokyo standing more fitting together empty stadiums must be depressing for the athletes, but probably not as depressing as the rules for staying in the olympic village. a ban on leaving the covert free zone gps trackers only 90 seconds allowed for conversations in the mix zone. only 10 minutes devoted for one meal having to fly out of japan. once your tournament is over. this is how we keep credit safe in the olympic dining hall. firstly, sanitized, them put these gloves on. before we touch anything,

we go and grab one of these trays. h individual try has been sanitized and washed his head of the bottom floor of the dining hall. as we walk around, obviously we've got i'm awesome in every little keep cool there. disinfecting why locked down everything that was going to touch the screen, the side, the everything. it makes me time conversations pretty difficult because it's hard to get through them, but it keeps up. the metal ceremonies might also make the winners feel a bit lonely. they will be presented to the athlete on a tray and then the athlete will take the metal him or herself. it will be made sure that the person who will put the mattel on the tray will do so only with disinfected gloves, so that the athlete can be sure that nobody touched them before. athletes also have to get used to fragile beds, which have been dubbed anti sex. although thanks to social media, we've already learned that beds aren't that useless in this peculiar aspect.

athletes will use beds made of cardboard frames, but they've been assured the cardboard beds won't collapse. during sex, the organizers haven't given up on the tradition of giving away thousands of condoms, but athletes will only be able to use them after they check out till the very final days of preparations before the opening ceremony. it wasn't clear if the olympics would go ahead, despite the overwhelming anti cove it measures athletes are testing positive, the nerves count has been on for a while and it seems to be just as pacey as the metal count, while the city of tokyo itself is under a state of emergency, they the case growth numbers have gone back to the peaks of winter and the locals would usually be so proud to be living and a whole city are now mostly against the event. one recent poll showed almost 80 percent. we're not happy with the decision not to cancel the whole thing. this

explains the protests, the counsel lympics because holding their lympics will cause mutated trains to spread which will endanger our lives. i think it is wrong to have the in the midst of the run a panoramic. i wonder about the government's stance of colon for self restraint among the general public. well, the same time being adamant about the olympics. someone else who's already made tokyo? 2020. i. e 2021. out standing is laurel hubbard. the 1st ever transgender olympic athlete. she was born male and will compete among female weight lifters. this caused quite a stir with some into sports community. going as far as saying that the i o c betrayed women by allowing this while the transgender are celebrating this historic milestone for them. the whole thing feels like a bad joke, life changing opportunities and missed for some athletes,

meadows and the limpid qualifications. and we are powerless. i do believe that everyone should have access to sports, but not other expansive fathers. bosses include in transgender efforts have been in place in the olympics and par lympics since 2004 laurel hubbard is the 1st to qualify. and 154000 olympians and barling bins over the last 17 years. trans people believe in sports. and finally in tokyo as become official athletes will be allowed to make political gestures and statements. but only before the competition begins. nothing like that is still allowed at the podium. so some teams have already announced they'll be taking the knee. well, that was easy to expect. however, when athletes were pulled 70 percent said they were against any protests anywhere at the olympic venue's. aud unusual weird. have you chosen the right word?

written ones posted the most powerful navy in the world, but now it's more like a fish out of water. it's been revealed to just one of 6. royal navy destroyers are ready for service and the forces being warned, it's operationally unacceptable. as r t more, i guess you have reports. britain has made quite a splash recently, the cowboy flora into russia's territorial waters, off the coast of crimea, all ukrainian waters. if you are a british captain and our itching for an excuse to antagonize the russians believe, james, your order was a big splash, as i say, but it was bravado the supposed show of full symbolized, but h m as defended sailing into russian gun ranges was actually a bluff as it emerged that all other destroyers are in for repairs. h m. a defender. recently at the center of

a diplomatic grove with russia following the voyage of the cranial peninsula is the only vessel of the class without and issue. the other 5 type, 40 fives, all need work, either planned or due to problems developed while it see. it's a good thing, but it didn't break down and caught me in waters. the last thing the royal navy needs is a rush and tug boats coming to its rescue or a chinese one following on from the queen elizabeth strike groups and no girl deployments. the united kingdom will permanently assign 2 ships in the region from later this year. big blad britain has i'm not entirely sure the chinese will be all that impressed, given recent events by which i mean breakdowns but big plans. nevertheless, that easy. the rule navy can scrounge together enough operational ships. so 2 of them, which as british assures, have shown can be a challenge if that ship experiences propulsion problems. as we have seen across

the top $45.00 family than our carrier group would have to be forced to lean on an a 2 ally to ensure that we have destroy protection. that really indicates bottom line that we need a bigger navy rule, but tanya rules, the waves, the old song goes truly times bears. no one, not that the british are giving up again. big black, 24000000000 pounds marked for a new fleet. we are going to use extra spending to restore britain's position as the foremost naval power in europe. and until then, it seems, britain will depend on others to rule the waves. and the question is, is everyone in nato ready to fight and die and unintended hypothetical war sparked by another british stunt? because it would be extremely embarrassing if they aren't. the biden administration has taken its 1st major steps against america's long time target of

cuba, flapping sanctions on the country's defense minister and the lead security forces brigade for a legit human rights violations during anti government protest this month. this is just the beginning, the united states will continue to sanction individuals responsible for oppression of the cuban people. people in cuba had taken to the streets to vent their frustration with the legend. pandemic mismanagement and an economic crisis along with food and medicine shortages. a number of activists were detained, and the cuban president denounced the rallies as a foreign provocation and blamed the problems on the long standing us trade embargo . further steps expected from washington include expanding its mission in havana and letting people in the us send money to relatives and friends in cuba through a remittance scheme, latin american and caribbean studies. professor daniel shaw says other countries would be accused of meddling if they pursued the same policies. several weeks ago

by the had said that a change in policy towards cuba was not on the menu, but suddenly following this, this backlash, this wave of anti cuba. anti socialism propaganda from the right wing from all sectors of the liberal elite, suddenly widened is hyper focused on cuba. but the intention is the same as it has been since 1959. and this has nothing to do with the liberation of cuba, and everything to do with the re colonization of the u. s. is done everything in their power, diplomatically, no, terribly, economically and politically. to carry out their attempts to re colonize cuba. they block them off from access to technology, to the internet, to social media. so how hypocritical now that the republican party and others claim that they're doing everything to bring free, why fi in the queue if china or russia with china,

broadcast internet off the shows of cuba or radio like radio. marquee is, they've done from miami, the cuban cuban americans. surely the us government would cry foul towards russia was china. here, across the spectrum of the mainstream media. yet every day, cuba is there in the headlines. because the u. s. been pushing regime change in cuba. it's $959.00, s a true agenda. now, some astonishing inconsistencies in the mainstream media and on social media when reporting on cuba are also apparent. a pro government demonstrator who asked the you and human rights commissioner not to mistakenly illustrate anti government protests with her photo had her twitter account blocked for quote, unusual activity the you and used this photo and a tweet calling for the cuban government to address protesters, grievances post was later deleted and remade with the photo of the official who

made the request. we heard from that very pro government activist in the picture, who says that those who support havana are being deliberately silenced. even before i found there would be mass protest, i decided for myself to hit the streets, i found a cuban flag and took to the streets to demand the end of the blockade. and of course, the protection of our revolution, my friends abroad, contacted me and showed my photo used by international media such as forbes, which used it as a symbol of that protest. of course, i was outraged and disappointed because that was not something i came to the street for a while. so seeing such a manipulation, i decided to denounce and condemn the use of my image for something i was again, what happened is a lie. so i decided to denounce twitter because it was to it where you and commission, i used my photo. and as a consequence to it, to decided to bend my profile,

silence may be understood that in this way they would silence many of those defending the revolution in cuba. in fact, media errors over cuba protests have been so common and agree just that critics are raising questions. for example, cnn showed a rally in miami was suggesting it was in cuba, many others aired photos of pro government supporters as if they were anti government supporters and a photo circulating across social media set to be from cuba was actually from 2011 protests in egypt. but christ again says they're unlikely to be honest mistakes. in kluso m, i, even though supporting the cuban revolution was shown to the world as part of the protests against the government. it was blayton manipulation because it was obvious that it was people with a cuban flag who identify it as a symbol of sovereignty and independence. and those who came to protest against government policy over the pandemic, and other issues related to shortages. the government was accused of did not use

national symbols that day one contradicted the other thing up next. from coven problems to contaminated water supplies, health problems, or the disturbing legacy of last week. deadly floods in western europe. the details after the short break the it's like you're walking down a street in a town and in the store and windows are negative. in depression, you tend to go into the store and buy those thoughts and take them home as if they're years. in mindfulness, you walk down the street, you still see the sort storefront with the negative thoughts, but you don't go in and buy those. ah,

so what we try to do is really to leverage on the knowledge of this partners from developed countries. and they offer free of charge the services them support was so we this is sort of a broker 12 teams from developing and emerging countries to get access to space. because clearly one of the issues, one of the show stoppers is the cost of the launch in the operation the the welcome back to the program. now residents of the german region worst hit by last week, steadily, floods are struggling to piece together their lives. again. they're forced to deal

with everything from restricted vaccine access to broken sewage systems. me, oliver, i guess i'll look. vaccination sandra was hitting the catastrophe and his clothes and we all would have had to drive very far to be vaccinated. misha, camino, i'm here for my 2nd vaccination. i was supposed to get my 2nd shot from my doctor, but he was also the victim of the clock. i'm also here with a charge group to help people who are affected because i was fortunately barely hit me. benji mentioned it on time and i expect the number of code cases in this area to rise in the next few days for people that work together in a confined space. and the transmission of corona is easier because everyone is not wearing mouth. nose protection, at least not in the pictures you see on tv. we can see that human to human transformation remains the main method of transmission.

and we had the safest drinking water in the whole world. it was almost star oil that's over now. we have never had such a situation in germany, at least not this extreme. there is no difference between drinking water and sewage at the moment. the water that flowed through the streets and the villages was a mixture of excrement and rain. water contamination is very high. you shouldn't hail anything or swallow anything because they're also environmental toxins and things like that ah, is fish. as you see, it is terrible. everything is destroyed. many people don't have any commendation. the businesses also closed. it's like a nightmare. so much more financial help is necessary because it has cost me and some damage. the whole infrastructure must be rebuilt. many buildings must be

ripped down and rebuilt all the breach of here. we have just one bridge out of around 10 left, just one bridge. to get to our side, we now have to travel through the whole village. so we are really reliant on financial resources and we also don't have any work. everything has been destroyed, no jobs, and no money anymore. and his local struggle to cope a presenter at a top german tv channel called r t l has been fired for being caught pretending to help in the clean up operation . a bystander apparently filmed her smearing herself with mud just before going on, camera in one stricken town, then claiming that she was helping out economic terrorism. that's how the israeli president labeled the growing international movement to boycott his country over its treatment of palestine. it comes after ice

cream, multinational ben in jerry's fro sales within israeli settlements throughout the occupied west bank and east jerusalem. it is inconsistent with our values for ben and jerry's ice cream to be sold in the occupied palestinian territory. we also hear and recognize the concerns shared with us by our fence and trusted partners. you know, as you can see in that video, there are some in israel and beyond have shared videos of themselves throwing away its products. in the u. s. retailers have also shown solidarity with israel by reducing or stopping supplies of the brand. israel denies accusations of occupying palestine or committing war crimes there, but palestinians have welcome to the ice cream brands move as a step towards what they see as justice. and i,

we support the decision and any company that boy cause these railway occupation, we hope the whole world will boycott israel product. i mean, i know we are pleased with the company's decision will support the companies that by called these rarely occupation and always railey settlement because of the war crimes and crimes they're committing against palestinians. i feel happy because there are companies that have a conscience knowledge of the legality of settlements in the palestinian territory . when the american company makes such a decision. and it is one of the largest the most widespread companies in the world . it is a beautiful thing. but in jerry's is just the latest in a growing list of companies that have decided to boycott israel. it's an issue that sees tempers flare on both sides of the conflict. so here at our tea, we put it up for debate. i don't think this is gonna make a bit of difference in israeli policy because it's so clearly so transparently an american company caving in to, to, to

a mob demand that what we're seeing is some consumer power on the rise. this is not about the, you know, vs, for example, advising or lobbying supermarkets to stop selling been injuries, foods and products. this is about consumers. i think the significance of this, however, is that this is coming from a u. s. company and a few months back. the u. s. was going completely in a different direction. they were recognizing east jerusalem as israeli, and moving forward to recognizing the occupied territories as such, the left wing mom tries to take lots of complex situations like policing in america . we're like israel conflict with her neighbors. and turn them into clear black and white right and wrong. when that's not the reality. if consumer power is growing, now you can call that left his mob or whatever. you know,

if people see george floyd being suffocated under the knee of a policeman, then will sympathize and you can call that left is small but, but i think it's just natural that people simplified and take action. they can take a moral stand and say, well, i don't want to do anything with that product. that's the kind of double standard of people say offensive things across the globe. you mentioned what happened in minnesota where's been injurious boycott minnesota. i could point out more than a sense of things being done in countries around the world. oppression being done in countries around the world. where is the boy out there when we're just focusing on israel and say, uh huh. someone in israel did something that was offensive to an error and therefore we must, we caught israel. it does suggest to me the sort of absurd, double standard in this absurd obsession. that does make me make me very suspicious of an anti semitism work issue of settlement with she's not, you know, happening one month ago or one year ago. it has been happening for, you know,

a century or something. people are being kicked out of their houses, sometimes violently, sometimes under the premise or the guys of law and other people, other ethnicities coming and taking their place. you know, this has gone too long and every now and then because this issue is being solved, then it will resurface long standing grievance every now and then if you know is show and bear in front of everybody and people remind themselves to make a moral stance we're seeing a different path emerging in the middle east. think we're seeing countries like the united arab emirates, bahrain morocco saying you know what, what's best for our joint future in the middle east jewish era, but like muslim and jewish like there's not boy cutting and shunning, but actually coming together, working together, investing together, collaborating together, and i would humbly suggest that the united arab emirates model abraham affords

model of investment in collaboration and mutual recognition will produce a better future for everyone in the middle east than some sort of silly boy cutting, pushed by americans who knew very little about the reality on the very last year, so violent protests and major political moves and support of racial justice across the us. though social harmony appears to be suffering. as a result, a recent poll shows 57 percent of americans say things are not going so well between black and white. people are cheese caleb up and looks at what's gone wrong . without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury. those the words of joe biden who pledge to heal the nation while the president might be quite disappointed to learn more than half the nation. does that relations between the black and white population have now hit an unprecedented rock bottom. for the 2nd consecutive year, us adults positive ratings of relations between black and white americans or their

lowest point in more than 2 decades of measurement. the research shows that while some white people remain optimistic about improving relations, the black population is losing hope. surveys show that police brutality is one thing. the black community is quite unhappy about statistics showing that one in every 1000 black men is killed by the police. this and a number of other issues result and only about a 3rd of the american population being happy about how the black community is treated. black people are also on satisfied about how the new administration handles racial issue. leaders from black lives matter met with white house officials earlier this year to discuss our policy agenda. and while we appreciate the chance to talk with them, we are surprised by the lack of progress on issues that matter to black people. the same communities that so strongly supported bought and horace during last year's election, people in the white community are starting to claim that they are pressed as well.

take the issue of critical race theory. many white voices are speaking up and claiming it is rewriting history. number of white people, according to the survey feel now that they are under represented in relief programs, especially after the rise of the black lives matter movement. americans, poor assessment of black wide relations stands alone in their assessments of relations between other us racial and ethnic groups. majority of americans rate relations between hispanic and white people, black and hispanic people, asian and white people. and like an asian people, as good with people being drawn apart, the white house is failing to halt divisions and overcome the tensions of previous years, making the problem more of an issue in today's america. so this is not surprising at all. it's of the unfortunate result not having a reckoning with the past the present. and unfortunately potentially the future of a country that really has never come to grips with how much racism ensconced. and

it's very fabric. we saw really what surface the, the backlash of this country, having the temerity in the gall to elect a black president really surfaced a lot of people who had been harboring anti black and reach his feelings into immigrant feelings into listen feelings for a very, very long time a lot of distance between people create competition other in this person is coming from my job or this person coming to harmony in my neighborhood. so social media is had a part in that, but also the programs of the united states government that i've been so rooted in hyper capitalism that they've actually split working class people apart because that in the interest of hyper capitalism. and then of course, we had just a very, very conflict politics in this country. that's all for this our, if you'd like more information on your top 2 stories, you can always check out our website, r t dot com or follow us on twitter. i'll be back with more news in just about 30 minutes, so stay tuned. the

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