about labor costs, but it's also about creating layers of western responsibility between those who solicit the kind of work and need it. and those who do it the, a sporting hero, or weak willed in the face of adversity opinion is divided over until us jim enough to quit, to olympic finals over mental health concerned well female german competitors in tokyo and make it stunned again, sexism. debate if what's already being done. the war games are becoming increasingly dominated by politics. lympics should represent social roles as they change, but they need the vantage. central brand, it needs to keep continue. the few india is tackling an influx of illegal migrants, but of authorities there are we like measures to stem the flow. you fall silent on

the issue while at the same time forming other states for similar action also at this hour. and you may find the following footage disturbing. 6 the u. s. c. another act of police brutality caught on camera with 2 officers in colorado. char, just after the violent arrest of a suspected trespass or wanted on felony charge. ah lie from our international new center in moscow. this is our see to our top story. if there's there's been more drama the to q lympics story us gymnast simone bio sensationally poll does of another final. her 2nd in a mother of days considered one of the sports all time. great smiles said she was

making the move to quote, focus on mental health. and while some observers say the move is our greatest achievement, yet others claimed the athlete. let her teammates down when they needed her the most. i say put mental health 1st, because if you don't then you're not going to enjoy your sport and you're not going to succeed as much as you want to. so it's okay sometimes to even set out the big competition to focus on yourself on tuesday doing the talk, your lympics individual, all around competition and women's gymnastics sim on bias. one of the greatest athletes to ever grace the sport for time on the big champion. quite surprisingly, for many decided to withdraw from the, from the round and eventually the russian team or r o c. if you may, 1 gold in that discipline. first, it was cited simone biles decided to withdraw to medical reasons. then it became clear as cited by the teams entourage and by, by ourselves that this was

a mental health issue. it has created quite a whirlwind of reaction. there are those who are strongly accusing and abusing simone bias for withdrawing. that i would say spearheaded by peers, morgan, a famous u. k. tv host, who well just fell short of accusing some on violence of being a chicken and checking out on her team. and i saw something that serial winners do a mental health issues. now the go to excuse for any poor performance in elite sport. what a joke just admits you did badly made mistakes and was tried to do better next time . kids need strong role models, not best nonsense. obviously that has created huge responds online and even some mainstream media jumped in. and if you look at the language that some of the mainstream media like washington, both the many out of used, you would think that simone biles actually won a gold medal rather than pulling out from the competition. whenever biles pulls on

her leotard, it says, though she's tyson in a cape round her neck, she's the hero task to save in a solid sport embodying some tried believe in american dominance, and also carry an agenda and an entire race. that's a heavy cape. and it chokes, but it's one that exceptional black women and women of color are tall to wear because simply being great isn't good enough. for some reason, many of those media and bonded commentators also decided to bring in her agenda her race into the story which is already creating another type of backlash because people cannot understand what is her decision to withdraw from one particular competition. something she has been preparing for for quite a while, because the lympics is quite important for any athlete in the world has to do with who she has her skin color and things like that. so it's definitely creating a major rift, and we will have to wait and see where the simone biles decides to continue in this

lympics. she's at a 4 time champion in the base already. and obviously all eyes are on her in the u. s. thinking that she could win more, she went on instagram recently just saying how much of that weight on her shoulder is being hard on her. and may be this rift with such reactions coming from both sides would create even more pressure for the 24 year old gymnast with a very difficult boss. during my colleague rory, she discuss those developments with a panel of guests mental health issue of simone biles as she withdrew. i mean, this must be a very, very difficult decision for gigi think perhaps she's set an example. by doing this is a topic i have had such a happy or the years and only recently are we talking to accept people with mental health. and i think the limits of the examples. why not express how you really feel

that 8 especially olympians they, they, they, they really try the years and years and they carry the contra mesh. oh does, is okay. have to be like, okay, i have mental health, i'm not going to be able to call the fact that she has withdrawn has both further attention to her. i mean, if she's sort of quietly underperformed and perhaps explained to the media that, you know, this is just one of those events. you can't be at her peak all the time and then quietly slipped away fine. but she really has made an announcement him put mental health health back on the map again. so the importance of mental health issue obviously shouldn't be underestimated about perhaps putting that onto the lympics as well is perhaps too much is a sporting event. it should be kept as a sporting event. if one is not ready for it really shouldn't. shouldn't be that. you could only find out sometime, but you're not ready for it when you're there already. and we've plenty more if you on line, including this piece, questioning the meaning of brave and modern sports,

a big talking point over the past few days. as we've just been hearing. you can read all about it's on r t dot com is here. and debates over actions of the gains didn't end. there are no german gymnast, have chosen to were full body unit charge. instead of the more traditional bikini leo towards the decision was made to protest, they supposed sexualization of athletes. and while some find the move an important step towards equality, others say it's just another case of trying to mix sport political. so what those are panel, think about the increasing attention being paid at the games to non sporting matters. this whole issue of uniform and the sexualization of women has to go quite soon and it can be so very simply, he just say, here are the uniformed men and women, no different. any sport that tries to segregate male and female on the basis of

uniform is really back in the 20th century. one of the biggest things about the elliptic pattern and your scale, it doesn't actually, and that's what you're judging, not charging the uniform and what, what people don't realize of this explanation of women when they can be very self conscious when wearing we're beating clothing, which might actually performance. so really if we really care about the school and the athletes, we should allow them to feel confident and what they wearing doing a bit of a problem be on the one hand the olympics is designs extolled, abuse in the perfection of the human body. operating at peak efficiency, so it's there to be admired. all the other hand, we have contributed lympics, who may feel uncomfortable with that being a limb. in particular, maybe there's a case for some element of choice, but at the same time we don't want to lose the essence of what they're lympics is. are you afraid perhaps that non sport issues or political ones in particular for example, that could become main talking points in the future olympics?

no, i'm not worried. i think it's a great opportunity. we seen so many changes already, and i'm not worried. i still feel like eventually it will kind of not slide down, but we will respect respect for now. i'm happy with it to different lympics. let's put it that way. it's an a everyone watching on tv and watching, you know, 68 tests and say to stadium with everything they can pretend i'm enjoying it as much as i do. other olympics i have to say, well, you should be confirmed because we don't want to be just a vehicle for the latest plan that comes along. lympics should represent social moles as they changed, but i need to prevent its own central brand needs to keep, continue to keep that. wow. so that we have when we see the olympics of it with their own specific procedures and, and, and habits and ways. and that's the beauty olympics, that's what we want to say. we don't want to make it to the temporary to trans units. and just this waveform, same almost 200 illegal border crossings in

a single day. that's what left you and he is currently facing with the total number of detain migrants dramatically spiking $23.00 stars in the summer, in the european nation. and while bilious has been denied for bringing and drastic measures to send a slow r t. charlotte dubin ski has been looking at how the use position on the issue has dramatically changed european union saying that all supposed to be equal partners. however, for some countries being in the gang seems of more benefits done. but others take the current situation in lithuania, which is going at the moment with an influx of migrant, difficult times call for difficult decisions. this will drastically change the way you immigration policy include mac, the tension of migrant. a ban on the release of those who are in detention for 6

level. there will be no right to a translator to obtain information about the asylum process. they will also curb the right to appeal decisions and to allow for deportation while lose appeals are being examined. do whatever it takes to absolutely ensure that only people who are persecuted for political reasons and have a good ground to look for a political shelter stay here. has been created specifically to deal with my goodness, coming over from neighboring batteries, lithuania, and you accuse minutes can be using them as a political to as relations continue to sour. critics say the law is a step to fall. the law is a potential human rights violation and it doesn't correspond to you directives. it contrives the current bad situation in lithia and in detention centers in law and

lives vulnerable people in and even more vulnerable situation. even criticism from lithuania, form a check of the constitutional court. the proposals which are unconstitutional are based on the premise that all foreigners who cross the border are 2nd class human beings not entitled to constitutional rights conditions in the must detention centers have also been denounced with allegations. my grants are being stripped of fact telephones that they can only got side for one hour a day pressure that some say has led to people attempting to take that law. everyone detained in this building is suffering psychologically. i already ran away from iraq since it's a prison, it is the same here clean. while lithuania is embarking on a massive project, the key would be migrant out. it plans to cover almost the entirety of its food

with salaries, with a breeze wire. so what do you think? let's you and use border is an external you border which is currently experiencing an unprecedented influx of migrants and asylum seekers. these people, many of them vulnerable need urgent support, such as food and shelter. the european union and other member states will not leave with you and you're alone in this difficult situation. very supportive doesn't do it except when another human hungry took a similar action. only use external border with serbia following a wave of migration in 2015. the tone from brussels couldn't be any more different. we cannot accept the basic values of the european union, a being so seriously breached any one like hungry who built fences against war, refugees, or breaches. press freedom and the independence of the justice system should be temporarily or permanently excluded from the you. last year,

the years top court found hungry, guilty of breaking, assign the rules. it says it's mashed up the lose or protecting vulnerable migrant by denying them the right to apply for asylum and by forcibly to putting the meanwhile, as you state, such as greece. also look to build rules only use external border to keep migrant out. brussels have so much as batted and eyelid leading some to feel that in the you know, all partnerships are indeed equal. another act of police brutality has been caught on camera in the us. 2 officers in colorado have been charged over the violence arrest of an armed mixed race man. a warning you may find the following video disturbing. you know, what do i know? i do put your hands on front of you. okay. don't stop it. oh,

oh. 6 0, i don't. the police officers identified the suspect kyle vinson being wanted by authorities for several offences. after 2 other men fled, mister vincent appeared to initially comply with their commands during the arrest, but resisted while being handcuffed. he was subsequently shopped, face down on the ground, and then pistol whipped by an officer. calvin was taken to hospital after that. he needed treatment. the officers in question have since been charged with use of excessive force. the war a police chief has strongly condemned their conduct. does not police work. we don't train. this is not acceptable. the definition of police were jelly is itself is a problem. you are you, you use the force necessary to effect in a rust. you keep yourself safe to keep the citizen safe and you actually keep the person that you're arresting safe. the job of the police officer,

the street car is not the punish. that's the job of the courts. so white edition, not a punishment for conviction. if so, if a police officer was aware, as was in the case of derrick sheldon, that he was being video camera right. your body cameras recording you and they were this comfortable with their actions. there is a serious epidemic and a serious problem. and then police officers, history needs to be looked into. we need to look at how many other times that person been accused, or have they taken excessive force beyond the level of what they were lawfully around the allowed to use. because if somebody feels this comfortable to get this out of control on video camera guarantee, it's not the 1st time they've done this. as an incident like us defined, the police movement is not properly communicated to the public de, from the police moment as a political card. it's what the politicians are using to wind up bolstering your base for more voting. it really just removes programs funding for certain areas for police officers. well, we've been discussing the issue of policing in the u. s. with renowned american

evangelists, franklin graham, who's given counsel to several american presidents, y'all to share his thoughts on other issues, including the current state of relations between washington, moscow. if you take in my country the funding the police. okay. seattle. they found the police department and the mayor would not support the police department. and this few days ago they had a number of shootings and murders and, and the marriage is now asking for more police. okay. well, it's a little late, but yes, this is woke, culture is gone too far. when like with george floyd and my heart was broken when i, when i watched them and when he said i came breathed and the police officer just

ignoring it, just broke my heart. but there are tens of thousands of policemen that are wonderful men and women that do their job every day that risk their lives to protect the men and women of the streets and tons of the way that used to saying how the u. s. act when you came in 2015, i think you were supposed in front of a map of russia, which nowadays counts as collusion. you are very brave man, but you also during that visit met with russian politicians at least one that i know is under us. sanctions did not have any repercussions. how was that received? i don't believe in the sanctions. i think the sanctions heard. i don't think the sanctions do anything, so make people more mad. and i look at sanctions that we put on other countries around the world and it's usually other people that get hurt. the smaller people get hurt and i would, i would lift those sanctions unless get on with business. the relations between

our 2 countries is the lowest has been, maybe since the cold war. and i find this very troubling. we have so much in common with russia, with the russian people. and we need to find ways to work together. it doesn't mean that we have to agree on everything. but we need to be working together and talking together and listening to one another is so important. there's, when you look at the needs of the world with american russia working together, i think we can help solve so many of the problems. i think, i think starting relationships with people themselves is extremely important. encourage the president, trump over time, us with him to try to work with russia. the problem we had is the media turned on president trump. they gave out false information on president trump accused russia interfering with elections and these

types of things. and it just divided our country and made it almost possible impossible for president trump to do anything. this is our t still ahead. the taps threatened to run dry 11 on the us warning, millions of lives are at risk because of water shortages are on that for this short the oh, the gemini, we're a long study. find that the, the biomass of sly in say, the weight of flying insects fell by 76 percent in the last 26 years. so instead of just becoming much, much less common, which means all the jobs that they do are not being done anymore. and that,

that is the real danger and that's what's going to impact on this is your media a reflection of reality in a world transformed what will make you feel safer? type relation or community you going like way? where are you being that the direct? what is truth? what is faith in the world corrupted? you need to defend the join us in the depths will remain in the shallows. ah ah,

let's start stateside again. where chicago's mirror say she isn't sorry for her decision to grunt interviews only to non white reporters, claiming a triggered quote, much needed debate. laurie lightfoot implemented a hugely controversial policy back in may. i would absolutely do it again. i'm an apologetic about it because it's per a very important conversation that conversation that needed to happen. that should have happened a long time ago. the mirror went on to say that media conferences are dominated by white reporters, suggesting it's time outlets better reflect the makeup of americans as being here. she's being sued over her stance by a reporter from the daily caller. who argues lightfoot is violating basic principles of freedom of political commentator. christopher horace believes a race car is being played by the democratic party to deflect from your policy

nameless agents rockridge. and there is nothing more than smoke and mirrors as a smoke screen just to distract people from all the other things that are taking place. it's apostrophe. we can just run on down the line, all the people out there, whether it's the elected officials like laurie lightfoot, or other people in the media who are out there trying to gin up race wars and all that is a slight of hand to try to, to just to distract you from the things that are not working with their public policies and look at the results. the black community or somebody say the african american community is one of the ones that suffers the most by continuing to vote for people like laurie lightfoot in for the party that she represents. because it just leads to more swirling around the toilet. that's essentially what ends up happening in the black community water. a scarcity is fast becoming a life and death matter in the middle east, on north africa, in lebanon. the situation so dire, the children's charity. unicef is calling for immediate action as millions in the

country, which is a huge percentage of the population risk losing access to clean water and just the number of weeks well, utility companies in lebanon, approximately would have between 4 to 6 weeks before they actually shut down altogether were extremely concerned that due to the economic crisis, which expiring out of control, that this is not going to affect the very essential water supplies for 4000000 people in the country. and the deterioration of the crisis have really accelerated in the past 12 months to a point where now even basic, essential, like spare, spare parts, consumable. even chlorine actually make sure that the water is safe to drink, even that is often no longer available for the utility companies. well, on this point, unicef estimates shortages could see water fees surge by 200 percent a month,

meaning the most vulnerable will be unable to meet the most basic of needs. local reporter linda to me and file. this report of the unfolding crisis from one of lebanon's main cities. i'm standing inside 11 on 2nd largest city and according to what i was told, war outage here are even worse than they are. and i'm just about to meet with a resident here. all about the issues facing with the families when it comes to water out most of her and his family have been suffering from severe outages throughout the summer. sometimes they go for days without a single drop of water. we have several water bills to pay. what we get so we need to get extra supplies if there's no electricity of fuel for generated from water, we can have a week long outages. it's very difficult, especially in the summer. we already have so much to deal with. we are very tired. most extra tanks often filled up by private water companies have been springing up

on roofs. all oversight and water has become so precious. in fact, that people have started locking their tanks out of fear that neighbors might steal from them. most families here inside and used to require just one water tank like those that you can see right behind me. but now they're not enough. so at least 4 tanks are required for household. and it's important to note that each of those tanks needs at least 6 hours of electricity or generator, in order to pump that water, all the way up and fill up those tanks. but now with the fuel crisis and the power outages that lebanon is constantly facing, most of these tanks do not fill up. the un is already raising the alarm, seeing that the countries water system is on the brink of collapse. and that's the, made the ongoing political and financial crisis. the one that the world bank has already described as likely to be among the top 3 most severe financial crises in the world. since $850.00 basic necessities such as medicine,

fuel and electricity have been scarce in recent weeks and with water prices increasing at an alarming rate. families have been rushing to secure alternative supplies with no real solution inside. many may soon be forced to compromise on their personal hygiene to save water, which begs the question of whether lebanon can avoid the potential public health catastrophe looming on the horizon. hunger on the streets of italy after confirmation that the current policy of cobit health, passports, which a low entry to public places including restaurants, gyms and sellers, is to be extended their the, [000:00:00;00]

the, the, i don't know if you put it, but this is a non dimensional situation, no one can understand it. imagine a client who has been visited for 10 years and wants to come inside and i have to say that he cannot do it because he's not fascinated. the client is afraid of getting a job. what should i do? it's not fair, there is no freedom of choice. nobody is denying the cold. it exists. we're not an exercise. we just want to get our freedom back. freedom of movement, freedom of business, and above all, freedom of medical treatment. well, the health passes are a particular problem for the tiny country of some marino, which is entirely surrounded by actually it's been using russia. sputnik vaccine to

inoculate against co was with almost all adults there are having received at least one dose or wherever the job doesn't have the use approval. which means residents who regularly travel intuitively will be able to use the health path as one italian, mary in the region hope's a solution can be fun quickly. but it's quite clear that you are to be rockers. the and political agenda responsible. russia had guarantee that his vaccine is just as good as the others, so it deserves to be evaluated fairly. there are people in italy like me who decided to get sputnik be of their own accord. these people do not choose which job to get. so when a person goes to get inoculated, they receive a vaccine which was approved by the italian health system. suddenly, no health department chose to sputnik because italy didn't get doses of other vaccines. that's why i think that the situation should be changed, at least by august. the 6th. that's why this situation is so counter intuitive and in my view, very dangerous. i remain optimistic and hope a diplomatic decision will be taken between now and august. the sick for if there

is no diplomatic solution, we will all face certain difficulties. sputnik v should have been approved several months ago. we need to expedite this process without mixing science and politics. what's called the mac. stacey talking today, find out in moments when the latest kaiser report hits your screen my for the when i would show the wrong one, i just don't the any room to fill out the scene because the after an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves well the part we choose to look for common ground