happening the the canceled the olympics, that's the cry of protestors claiming the tokyo games will cause a wave of new covey cases. more than a 100 people linked to the event have already tested positive mid concerns. that this is just the tip of the iceberg. also this, our questions are raised over the decline of what was once the most powerful navy in the world. as it transpires that just one british naval destroyer is currently fully operational and following a recent wave of protests in cuba, us imposes a new round of sanctions against the caribbean nation. as the bible ministration shows no sign of backing down on americas long time. dr.

ah or broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow. this is art international. sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. now the olympic flame is burning and the long awaited tokyo summer games have officially begun. however, the atmosphere is far from the festive. one organizers had hoped for, while opening fireworks lit up the stadium protesters voice their concerns about the spread of coven infections linked to the event, have already jumped to $110.00 to $13.00. among athletes. however, the president of the international olympic committee insists that the games can be held safely with restrictions, meaning that for the very 1st time in history, no spectators will be allowed to attend. certainly a particular now comments. the controversy doesn't stop 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 which ever 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, japanese people. anyway, the locals won't be able to enjoy any of the actual arena vibes because we are rina'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 or sitting 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 cove, it 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. we sanitized them, put these gloves on before we touch anything, we go and grab one of these trays. a 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? so we walk down everything that we're going to touch the screen. the side, the check, everything. it makes me time conversations pretty difficult because it's hard to get through them. but 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 metal 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 in 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 cancel merely because holding billing, the full cause mutated, trained to spread, which will endanger own lives. i think it is wrong to have the lympics in the midst of a run, a pandemic. i wonder about the government's stance of colon for self restraint among the general public. well, the same time being adamant about the limpid someone else who's already made tokyo . 2020 i. e. 2021. out. thing is laurel hubbard. the 1st ever transgender

olympic athlete. she was born male. and we'll 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 amid for some athletes, meadows and olympic 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 paul impacts 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 venues. aud unusual weird. have you chosen the right word? britain once boasted the most powerful navy in the world, however, it has become a shadow of its former self with just one of its 6 destroyers currently ready for service. and there are warnings that the situation is operationally unacceptable are cheese. when i got the comments, britain has made quite the splash recently, the cowboy flora into russia's territorial waters, off the coast of crimea, all ukrainian waters. if you were a british captain. itching for an excuse to antagonize the russians. james,

your order. those about a big splash as i say, but it was bravado the supposed show of full symbolized, but a tremendous defendant 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 boat 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 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 tonya rule, the waves, the old song, goes truly times bears know what 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. in 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 odd. roads have turned into raging rivers and thousands of people are without power. that is the devastating seen in ne turkey as it suffers more torrential flooding. severe rain has destroyed homes and overturned vehicles, and authorities have turned off electricity supplies as a safety precaution. it comes just a week after 6 people died and 2 went missing in previous flooding, a local reporter gave us the late husband just got the number towards him from our view, which is now severely damaged by the flood. heavy rain started yesterday early in the morning. the river overflowed. you can see behind me floating, destroyed

a bridge across the river, causing it to the damage is really significant. 5000 citizens live in the small district on the black sea coast of turkey. many of the move to safety water flows of more than a 100 vehicles around the 100 commercial areas are affected. local, the suffering huge loss, the ground floor, apartments basements, 1st floor space damage from rising water level. in some places building the flooded up a 2nd floor, much of the furniture that has been destroyed. the water supply system has been damaged and people now have to get drinking water from municipal facilities. such seems a witness throughout the affected areas. rescue of civil defense groups and now working in the area also evacuated. people support groups have been mobilized from cities nearby. meanwhile, residents of the german region worked hit by last week's deadly. floods are struggling to peace. their lives together again. they are forced to deal with everything from access to restricted vaccines to broken sewage systems.

me. i live, i guess i'll look callbacks. nation center was here in the catastrophe and his clothes and we all would have had to drive very far to do vaccinated. come in, i'm here for my 2nd vaccination. i was supposed to get my 2nd shot from my doctor, but he was also a victim of law. i'm also here with a church to help people who was fortunately with benjamin smith on time. the number of covert cases areas arise in the next few days. the people that work together in the confined space around it is easier because everyone is not wearing mouth. nose protection, at least not in the pictures you see on the tv. we can see that human to human transmission remains the main method of transmission.

and we had the safest drinking water in the home. well, it was almost 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 flowed through the villages. was it a mixture of romantic rain? water contamination is very high. you shouldn't have to swallow anything because they're also environmental toxins and things like that. ah, you see this terrible being destroyed. many people don't have any commendation. the business is also closed. it's like a nightmare. so much more financial help is necessary because it has caused camille 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. in other news tonight, mortars and haiti have been grieving at the funeral of their murder to president. as protesters also took to the streets and a show of the political divisions tearing at the caribbean nation. this is a picture from the funeral president, jovan l. y e z was killed in his residence, allegedly by a group including 26, former columbia soldiers, 6 of whom were trained by the us military protest surrounding the funeral shots were reportedly fired and the us delegation and other guests ran to their vehicles

. no injuries were reported among the gas bellenger's ice cream gets frozen out of israel after the company stops sales and occupied palestinian territories. but is it economic terrorism or support for human rights? the story and much more for breakfast international? ah, the democratic dominated select committee investigating the events of january 6 on capitol hill has been constituted. it will start proceedings next week would be merely political theatre, a proverbial lunch from food buy on national display. one thing is for sure these proceedings were like deep political divisions. fagley finding the truth looks to be of secondary importance. ah, is your media

a reflection of reality? the, in a world transformed what will make you feel safer? tyson lation, whole community. are you going the right way, or are you being somewhere direct? what is truth? is faith in the world corrupted. you need to defend the join us in the depths. will remain in the shallows, ah, in the mac, this is our t international. now the by the administration has taken its 1st major steps

against america as long time at target cuba and has slap sanctions on the country's defense minister and also in elite security forces brigade. it's in response to alleged human rights violations during anti government protests this month. this is just the beginning, the united states will continue to sanction individuals responsible for oppression of the cuban people. humans had taken it to the straits to vent their frustration over an economic crisis. and the government's handling of the pandemic along the food and medicine shortages. a number of activists were detained and the cuban president denounced the rallies as a foreign provocation. he also blamed the problems on long standing trade embargo imposed by the united states. and further steps were expected from washington. do include expanding its mission in havana as well as giving into pressure to help the cuban population, such as letting americans send money to relatives and friends there through a remittance scheme. we spoke to latin american in the caribbean studies. professor

daniel shaw about this and he 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 military lee, economically and politically, to carry out their attempts to re colonize cuba. they block them off from access to technology, to the engineer,

to social media. so how hypocritical now that the republican party and others claim that they doing everything to bring free, why fi in the queue if china or russia would 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. deadly serious u. s. house speaker nancy pelosi has rushed to defend the democrat lead selected committee investigating the january 6th capitol hill rights that after house minority leader kevin mccarthy, accused her of an agree just abuse of power for rejecting 2 republicans. he pointed

to the panel. hello c has created a sham process. house. democrats must answer this question. why are you allowing a lame duck speaker? to destroy this institution? this is the people's house, not pelosi house. on wednesday pelosi blocked 2 of mccarthy's 5 at nominees stressing their participation could compromise the integrity of the investigation. both are known to be long time allies of former president donald trump possi except the other 3. yet that still failed to satisfy the minority leader who threatened to pull all his members from the committee and said the republicans would instead run their own investigation into the incident. with reminder of the events under investigation on january 6th, trump supporter storm to capitol hill. after he lost 2 joe biden in 2020 presidential election and the ensuing mailing left 5 people that we spoke to political analysts, or rasmussen,

who calls the investigation pointless. this is ridiculous, entire investigation ridiculous, a lot of side going off in a different direction. i don't think anything's gonna come out of it. if you can be used for political purposes on either side, that's what's gonna happen. i think we're going to have 2 parties doing something here the most going to come up with different recommendations, really nothing going to come out of this. so i think it's it's unfortunately the travesty of justice spending money to investigate something like this. i think the most the efforts to be looked at the riots that occurred the previous summer. that's where we need to be economic terrorism. that's how the is really president labeled the growing international movement to boycott his country over its treatment of palestine. it comes after ice cream multinational been in jerry's froze sales within israeli settlements throughout the occupied west bank and eastern one. we believe 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 recognise the concerns shared with us by our fence and trusted partners. now it's just right now in response to some in israel and beyond have shared videos of themselves throwing away its products. and us retailers have also shown solidarity with israel by reducing or stopping supplies of the brand. now israel denies accusations of occupying palestine or committing war crimes. their bud 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 call them up. and i know we're pleased with the company's decision will support a company that by called these rarely occupation and always railey settlement

because of the war crimes and crimes they're committing about again. and i feel happy companies have a conscious knowledge of the legality of settlements. and the palestinian territory, when an 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 with that, and 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. we put the story 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. what we're seeing is some consumer power on the rise. this is not about you know, video, for example, advising or lobbying supermarkets to stop selling ban 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 in jerusalem as is really and moving forward to recognizing the occupied territories as such, the left wing mom tries to take lots of complex situation 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 offensive things being done in countries around the world. oppression being done, countries around the world. we're is boy out there when we're just going to focus in 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 session. 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 ethnic city 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 longstanding grievance every now and then you know, is shown 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 life is 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 brand that does it for me, this are i will be back in about 33 minutes with another full and fresh look to

news. this is our international. oh i i join me every thursday on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guests in the world. the politics sport, business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me john is raising prices up. they're the ones who are dictating prices. so we're creating a monster here. we created a brick and monster. we've got china economy zooming, they can raise prices at will in no matter how high china raise prices for americans to buy their good biden's going to print more money to send to china. this is the worst is dopey and chinese finger trap that ever been in

the 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 services support but it was so we app this is sort of a broker 12 things from developing and emerging countries to get access to state because clearly one of the issues, one of the show stoppers is the cost on the launch in the operation. the ah, ah with ah hello and welcome to cross talk. we're all things considered. i'm peter labelle,

the democratic dominated select committee, investigating the events of january 6 on capitol hill has been constituted and will start proceedings next week. will it be merely political theatre? proverbial lunchroom food fight on national display? one thing is for sure these proceedings will reflect deep political divisions. sadly, finding the truth looks to be of secondary importance. ah, ah, the cross talking january 6, i'm joined by my guess, debbie dewley in atlanta. she is president of the atlanta tea party in milwaukee. we have jennifer de master. she is an attorney and policy analyst. and in london, we cross who are you are amish. he is an attorney, as well as a foreign policy analyst, or a cross sac rules and effect. that means you can jump in anytime you want. and i always appreciate jennifer. let me go to you 1st here as it is constituted it's,

it's basically going to be a democratic show. ok, and i use show purposely here and it's, we're going into this here. it seems to me that as i said in my introduction, the truth seems to be quite secondary because it looks like both sides want to claim a cover up being done by the other side here. i mean, is this exercise worth? it's while, unless you just want to in, in plain passions, go ahead in milwaukee. it's really not worth while. it's not, not. why not? because it's become such a part of the show. you know, i think i think some of the republicans, jim jordan included, even kevin mccarthy want to get to the true. they talked about wanting to truly understand what happened. why it was a bit more security was not added. why could, charity would turn down by the mayor? you know what, what the democratic leaders know? what time did they know of any other security threats? and so these are, these are questions. but if you truly believe that this was the ha.