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Warm welcome from our team here in moscow this is our international and our nicky aaron and our top story china has approved a resolution to impose its security law in hong kong angry and the beijing protests have again been intensifying in the city r. T. Saskia taylor looks at whats at stake. With current of ours dominating the headlines since february many of the stories have to fall into the wayside but one making a comeback as the wild starts returning to normality the hong kong protests are now up to several months of her spite stay some serious scuffles and not came off to thousands of protesters took to the streets on wednesday the day ending on a really sour note with around 300 arrests and Police Using Pepper Spray bullets because they suspected some of the protesters had weapons including pecial bombs. We know that anti China Sentiment has been building in the region for almost a year but that was reignited last week off to beijing announced plans for a new piece of legislation the National Security gold that has now been approved the bill has been approved by chinas legislature and it is possible that could even come into effect with then im asked to oak weeks now that would ban treaty on terrorism really any behavior that threatens National Security all said this week at m. P. s debating and not the bill about the National Anthem and that would criminalize insulting the anthem on could see people face fines and potentially even jail time so frustrated people poured onto the streets chanting things like hong kong independence its the only way they see beijing and more and more as to theory and hong kong surprise which seems strange because of course it is technically china but since 1907 the area has enjoyed and large degree of or to. Anomie under its one country 2 systems rule not one punch that has taken a perhaps on usually high level of interest in the end to the facts of hong kong is that you asked and on wednesday before Congress Section state my compared to the hong kong could no longer be considered selfgoverning no reasonable person can assert today that hong kong maintains a high degree of autonomy from china given the facts on the ground while the United States once hoped that free and prosperous hong kong would provide a model for authoritarian china it is now clear that china is modeling hong kong afterward self washington has said that it will take action if for now when the bill passes and this is what president trouble all that mysterious he had to say on the matter were doing something now i think youll find it very interesting but i wont be talking about it today ill be talking about it over the next couple of days sure ok whats exactly on the cards well have to wait and see but one thing is certain this is not going to do anything for us china relations the 2 are poor speak and all but compared to something washington does not take kindly to so weve seen trade wars shop rhetoric but in the wake of close the ninetys this fragility has really turned into an open tension as the u. S. The late china for the pandemic against all of this beijing has said that it will not tolerate any type of interference so month or 2 we have the question of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region National Security legislation is entirely chinas internal affair no foreign country has the right to interfere if anyone insists on harming chinas interests china will have to take all necessary measures to firmly hit back some say that beijing has good reason to adopt such a strict turn after all in the past we have seen u. S. Government employees meeting with some of the hong kong protesters and and washington from the outset has very actively encouraged what it claims is hong kongs fight for democracy so it seems that while the wildest of moving on and beyond that 19 the strain between these 2 nations is not easing at the moment it looks like hong kong might well become the battleground where that clash plays out. Earlier i spoke to one when the professor and executive dean of the chung Young Institute for financial studies at redmon university in china now he says beijing has every right to push ahead with the security law and to be concerned by other countries interference i think every big country has its own money. The United States has routine has france has so i think theyre trying to should have one of those this year is just to make up so this National Security law is a formulated under the free work of one country 2 systems so which is. Supreme and Hong Kong Based on law and it does not affect hong kong to freedom so at present some people you hong kong im not what about freedom but do not recognize a chinese is to do not and you can as a china and hong kong actually should so i think this is a basic understanding that outrank as valid a stronger response say they plans legislation what has the u. S. Go to do with the hong kong case and might this be seen as foreign interference. So i think they had to as a chinese scholar i think. It is a very foolish if for term penetration to india where very strong france so this is a typical invention so i challenge you to chinas law or chinas so its a very hard to imagine how own the white house reacted to how are you escalation if a country want to work in developed so i advise americans do not. Good to do such a 46 so i also asked some hong kong people do not have a loophole for americans so in fact from the perspectives of many countries in the middle east and north africa syria iraq libya is it true the more United States in the variance the more chow dick there and. What will be. Camps for the elderly and vulnerable have become coronavirus hotspots in scotland while nursing home on the isle of skye made headlines after it was revealed a quarter of its residents died from kovac 19 we talked to john gordon whose father was one of the victims in the last few years have been the main char. She began to remember i was with him but important to many who have recently saved him whoever you were had and she has. And for us it was very poignant last year my dads away when we often go and morning to see that he was a bit to pass and my sister and her family and myself were able to be straight with them im literally surrounded by sturm and as my sister and her family myself are talking we could see with our beaches hands of the same as beds for our hero here is in full people with her blue gloves on and it was a really great moment because it was such a reassuring them commit and we were there the whole my dads hand you know we were denied our opportunity to be with them just in those final hours and. When we think of the most wonderful in our society you know or our Elderly Population some places theres theres heres where were people with disabilities and they dont have this employees that we need again and again with them and they are into these homes you cared for to be protected and this is not happened it was found almost all of the residents around 29. 00 stars in the home farm nursing home contracted kovac 910 residents including johns father have passed away since the pandemic started placing now investigating 3 deaths at the care home there are there are allegations a lack of testing and negligence in protective measures led to the tragedy. As of may 24th scotland has registered 3700. 00 deaths from covert 90 almost half of those were in care homes scotlands 1st minister nicholas sturgeon has promised an inquiry of course there will be a Public Inquiry into this whole crisis and every aspect of this crisis and that will undoubtedly include what happened in care homes for the home and probably had locked down probably affecting news earlier so as a family we were reassured that they were really weeding the way and terms of dealing with the pandemic in everything that happened and we felt that our father was secured by them and so it became absolutely shocking within our community when it became evident that there was such a high number of cases of of coordinating within the home you know there was a lot stuff movement there were stuff coming in from other areas to work within the home. My understanding was there was a list of isolation the there should have been the staff were probably going to die in p. P. Is becoming more evident and needs to be. Really mapped dont in terms of what went wrong here year there has been huge feelings. Italy has worried some with his plans to ensure people respect social distancing the government says it will recruit an army of volunteers snoopers so they do belsky explains. How do you fancy a brand new role in a bid to help keep your country safe well given the current pandemic the idea of doing your bit may perhaps hold a lot of appeal but what if i told you that the position is one not paid and 2 you could be accused of snooping on your loved ones who perhaps not so peeling now well in italy next week this is the cool that people will be expected to. Weve seen early entry and you know when theres a gradual recovery productive activities and citizens are returning to populate cities day to day now is the time to recruit a loose citizens who want to help the country by demonstrating a greasy makes it. Its hoped this in oh me of 60000 volunteers will help of the gatherings as its only tries to emerge from a virus that is killed tens of thousands nation white as the summer heat set up and restrictions are eased footage of crowds is trickling fees that infections could see again so much so that in the v need to area a video with images of patients in intensive care was broadcast on t. V. To convince people to comply with Safety Measures even within the Italian Government not all agree about a volunteer army whispering on what neighbors may or may not be doing the proposal of the socalled civic assistance makes no sense to me not only was the move not shared with us we absolutely oppose it public gatherings are a problem but this is not what citizens need what they need is responsibility and seriousness from their politicians we have to stop being a rational Italian Interior Ministry which is responsible for maintaining order also claims not to have been consulted while another Political Party has cooled to proposal muchness the government claims that this is a by. Civic responsibility about Community Services such as taking groceries to people who need them but cant convince people to sign up or are tallying suspicious that this is essentially the job of an informant jerry rescale sued i mean there is a concrete risk of a culture of also because they will put us against each other it will be a typical war between the poorest people. In iraq and we dont was still dont and stunted that paid a lot and who caused them loose too much confusion about the work of these civic assistants who are already too many cameras around wrote people may get to the lawyer and they begin to serve their dissent it may possibly civic assistance could be useful because in this phase 2 people are getting more relaxed over the Safety Measures. In my believe it so any disservice must be carried out by the local Police State Police and other Law Enforcement agencies there is a risk of developing a culture of suspecting everyone in any case we dont want for the truth we need actual. It would mean the control of the government is already very strong and this would only worsen the situation and its not the 1st time italy has tried to recruit volunteer tattletales back in march the mayor of broome authorized a system allowing people to report on those not following the lockdown other gatherings of people you think are contrary to the Nations Health rules you could report of them directly to the relevant authorities who this is just official website. So are you ready to snoop for your country if not be alert to those who might just be watching the show ski see paris. 150000000000 euro to recover economies ruined by the covert 1000 pounds to make about how the plan has been met by the e. U. Member states with a short break. International memorial awards im now open for entries the media professionals are eligible whether you are a freelance journalist terms of media or part of the global News Platform to participate published works in video all written for much go to award dot altie dot com and then to now. Part of something is better than 100 percent of nothing and so losing money is part of the Money Laundering model as a model of Business Model and we look at these unicorns the startups and Silicon Valley like the ones you mention we work. That way fair. We were left there all losing money exponentially so many after the asters start well maybe the model is to lose money and so who is laundering the money who is longer in the money. Come back donald trump passed threatens to strongly regulate social media platforms to twitter decided to flag the president s posts about voter fraud as misleading with its new gets the facts label the president accuse the social network of stifling free speech especially against republicans. Republicans feel the social media platforms totally silence conservatives voices we will strongly regulate or close them down before we can ever allow us to happen we saw what they attempted to do and failed in 2016 we cant let a more sophisticated version of that happen again in the tweets that was called out by trump trump said that allowing people to vote by mail would lead to widespread fraud the social Network Added a get the fact link leading to a statement saying that x. But they mail in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud but we got reaction to the spot from legal and media analysts leinil out of the 5000000 tweets that hes tweeted why is this so important regarding ballot mail in ballot why is that theres an old expression this is your only catch flack when youre over the target and some people think by the president things that there must be something to this i must have hit a nerve and twitter basically allows only certain forms of information only certain areas certain air now what twitter always says is where a private company we do whatever we want and where private company what do you if you can nobody makes you go on twitter you dont have to go into it or i always thought they were we put a billboard they lame a billboard you decide what youre going to put undead billboard if its wrong a vigil right thats not their problem they just sell the space is between individuals theyve now been forced to to involve themselves so the rules up till now are going to have to be rewritten because right now the 1st amendment does not apply to private companies and by the way. The reason why the hate is the most he used their platform for his benefit. Its killing them. America russias council has extended the lockdown in moscow until june 14th but hes also relaxing the rules or less so to give people a chance to exercise on some businesses the opportunity to reopen well for the towns they can cross live to wanting it done cause i dont want to this mean for muscovites like itself by nike well moscow is definitely exercising caution when it comes to these 1st steps towards lifting the lockdown starting monday residents will once again be able to walk freely around the city on specified days a week no permit required and as long as crowds dont get too large d theyll also be able to exercise in the citys newly reopening public squares and parks now most places around the City Restaurants beauty salons cafes they will continue to remain under lockdown mayor sit down and did say after all that this 1st step is more of an experiment. Which this is a very difficult decision for a morning to read every room or where they want and as much as they want and nobody will have something resembling a may day demonstration of moscow there is no simple measure therefore we suggest doing this in testimony and making a show jewel that sets out when citizens living in particular buildings ok. It will be a simple scheme but it will mean that not everyone can go for a walk at the same time you will live like this for a week or 2 and see how the situation develops. As for mask and gloves those are still going to be mandatory for anyone on the street and of course these new relaxed rules dont apply to people who are a threat to Public Health that includes people who were recently diagnosed with colbert 19 or have been confined to quarantine yesterday russian president Vladimir Putin said that the country avoided a worst Case Scenario in moscow around half of the hospital bans are remaining empty and the authorities intend to keep the situation stable with these new measures don thank you for those days as i thought a correspondent on course. Upon them by casper the Global Economy into shock the European Union has proposed a Recovery Plan that includes hundreds of billions in loans and grants from Member States pays all of that in berlin explains that these have European Commission president live on the line was in quite generous mood on wednesday she was talking about budgeting in funding up to 1. 85 trillion a year 01 point one trillion of losses the e. U. Budget for the next 7 years but 750000000000 is in corona virus aid to help those countries that have been worst affected in making the announcement the e. U. Commission president is very one for all and all for water in our union people and business and companies depend and rely on each other in our union cohesion convergence and investment good for all of. This is about our of us and it is really bigger than any of us this is europes moment but there are those that are feeling a little less in the mood to share the debt which would come up with a sort of on the Alliance Plan theyve been called the frugal for their made up of the netherlands denmark sweden and austria they arent all that convinced by the plan and may take certainly some convincing if its to get put into action those that are very much on side where this does you might expect that those that need that money the most one of those is italy their Prime Minister just said become today seem very contented with what us live on the line have to say. Signal from brussels it goes exactly in the direction indicated by italy 500000000000 in grants and 250000000000 in loans and you could figure now lets speed up the negotiation to free up the resources sued the plan that was put forward by the lion on wednesday has a rather a lot in common with a plan that was put forward as the preferred route when it comes to corona 8 by french president of money would go on and german chancellor Angela Merkel just last week they put forward the idea of a 500000000000 euro fund with the debt being shared now that is part of the on the line plan but hers comes with an added 250000000000. 00 euro that would be available in loans those are convinced about this world they come from the populous parties within europe who are asking just how is all this going to be paid for it later and what it does the introduction of new taxes to finance the Recovery Plan will inevitably impact on Small Businesses and consumers does he says this is completely wrong this is nonsense this is a huge price for citizens to have to pay so youre just spending as if there was no tomorrow. The European Unions response to the corona crisis is. Come under fire in a recent poll now people were asked the question isnt it italy france and germany did the European Union and the institutions response to the corona crisis actually undermine the case for there being a European Union after all 40 percent of those asked that question agreed with it here in germany 47 percent in france 61 percent in italy people let not very happy at all with how brussels responded to the coronavirus but when it comes to that budget financing for the next 7 years for the e. U. That is live on the line was talking about on wednesday dont expect it to be agreed anytime soon theres an 8 year Council Summit next month but im going to merkel suggesting that there wont be any agreement amongst european leaders until well the autumn she said that would give them enough time to have it reviewed and agreed in National Parliaments and enough time to have it reviewed and agreed in the European Parliament as well before the budgets due to come into effect on the 1st of january next year and latest episode of arties boom bust professor of economics Richard Wolfe explains why you things brussels this Recovery Plan is indicative of a new panic if you watch that later today on r. T. International online any time. Well their situation has are not allowed to be cheery away your arse old shora you have to hide it waved forward economically at a rate of hard to which well id lost the reform of its a little and its going to need a crash should do without 8 august or enormous really i think they are actually going to grow an enormous amount of money it made it very well not be enough they had all this somehow just glide through were not looking at her long term consequences at all what really. Makes or missed out what in guide from commentary consequently in that way theyre like the United States that the damage here grow huge amounts of money crush of leaders dont look very hard at what the consequences because unless you get through this crash there will be nothing to worry about our because recess can rot really finally crash its that irreparably intensity that makes them magically were going to be our earlier predictions were out of date they had a hole to slip through them very very serious a problem for europe thanks for joining us here on r. T. And to national were back with the latest headlines at the top of the hour. Already one else seems wrong but i will just dont. Get to see her out this day. And in again because the trail. Went on by themselves worlds apart. Just to look for common ground. Ah no team no crowd. No shots no. Action well to be. Well. No 1st 12. Points your thirst for action. Every single culture on earth has prohibitions against care. 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