Follow the good morning its saturday the 11th of july you watching r. T. International is just gone 10 oclock here in the russian capital turkeys landmark i guess if a museum which through its long history has also been a cathedral and a mosque is being converted back into a place for muslim press change i mean like a lot of other mosques the doors of the hagia sophia will be open to all locals all foreigners muslims and muslims to fear humanitys common legacy will continue to embrace everyone with its new status in a more sincere and more unique way by finalizing preparations quickly we plan to open hagia sophia for worship on friday july the 24th 2020 with friday prayers. Since we do have to wait another 2 weeks we have to fear the pres this friday can see them gathering outside the nominee we can the president s announcement come shortly after to the high court and a 934 decision to turn it into a museum a continuous use of it and as my own story. Turkeys council they reach a decision no 1930 or Ministers Council decision that. I spoke you must museum so this decision being i know that my so now be reverted back to a mosque now what will change with. Looking forward well the main thing thats going to change now is sophia will be open for islamic worship now there are many very important christian i. Pressed goes inside islamic laws that worship did not take place in the presence of icons but turkish government is planning on using light Mapping Technology to provide an artificial barrier blocking these icons from the view of worshippers during prayer hours so the mosque will still be open for tourism but also during prayer hours for worshipers that want to come here is what many turkish officials see the decision to turn. Back into a mosque the mystic issue but there has been a lot of International Criticism the United States views a change in the stages of the hagia sophia as diminishing the legacy of this remarkable building and its supposed to been a t. So rare in the modern world to serve humanity as a much needed bridge between those of differing faith traditions and culture you know School Deeply regrets the decision of the turkish similar tastes made without prior discussion and calls for the universal thing more World Heritage to be preserved the ruling by the tax council of states. To overturn one of modern decisions and president decision to place the monument under the management of the religious Affairs Presidency is regrettable the decision which came as a result of the political will of preston other one. Is the unique value and ecumenical nature of the monument circus president ial spokesman ibrahim cohens giving it sure is that there is going to try to are to make sure that the religious identity and the historical significance of this Beautiful Mind you made is preserved all of our major mosques such as the blue mosque for t. V. And silly money in mosques they are open to both visitors and worshippers opening our paga sophia to worship doesnt keep local or Foreign Tourists from visiting the site so a loss from the worlds heritage is not in question the i. S. O. Is actually a very old structure dating back to the 6th century when they sent him for just the. Help construct this very important character its served that the church for the record has docked. It in the empire and its actually a very important symbol to the Greek Orthodox religion. Consider what the vatican is the roman catholics the i. S. O. The Greek Orthodox. Wedding were looking at the reactions coming domestic we regarding the decision to revert by sophia back into a mosque we see members of the ruling party very very happy we see weeds from the turkish president weve seen tweets from the finance minister the president S Communications director as. Well. Weve seen the opposition take a very wide stance many positive reactions coming out of the muslim world theyre celebrating this decision that. Once again. Worship. When a former greek ambassador to tell us that he believes that turkeys move reaganite tensions between religions. And spain belong to the initiative. Civilization it was an initiative that was started about 10 or 15 years ago as objective to stop the one thing next we can it be. I dont think it has been successful but it is a shame to ricky and see who found it new should it be taking such a mission to have tensions between. Worlds and this is something that. I think were going to. But the rebels had mentioned in his 1st reaction. To the possibility of. A yes or becoming a mosque. Meanwhile in berlin and change the perceived. Trace thank you its the. Suggestion by transport authorities also proved to be a controversial one have a look at that story but later on in the private. Eye wall restrictions are being lifted in the u. K. Concern remains a battle potential 2nd wave of 19 and many fitting that a shortage of personal protective equipment might once again be an issue shoddy at which daschle has more details. As a u. K. R. Knocks the lock down it seems many a bracing for a 2nd wave of the corona virus but also a 2nd wave of a shortage of p p its not new news the us throughout the entire pandemic and has stopped on the front line really struggle to get hold of protective gear to adequately safeguard against the virus for months on and it seems like the look down lessons havent been learned over the Department Says it is committed to building the stocks to meet longer term demand we are not convinced that it is treating the market with sufficient urgency or that. The government is adamant that the stock of p. P. Has never run out on a National Level but with demand increased by 20000 percent those on the front line would beg to differ in fact 50 percent of and it starts so there was not enough p. P. And although day to run its usage is hard to get hold of a survey of nurses and carers found that nearly 90 percent worried about catching the virus at work while the government stresses that their main challenge faced was getting the right people to the right place at the right time initially masks were issued and then the statement was made that actually we have tested. And these masks are ok having said that they now say we need to get through this mask so theres a lot of loss of freight and you need to answer this but rather than to say the market has now been resolved with demand spiralling to u. K. Had to look further afield and source p. P. P. On International Markets but that came with its own set of problems a plane from turkey landed at the peak of the pandemic in april carrying a batch of 400000 much needed p. P. Counts upon arrival it emerged of the equipment didnt meet british Safety Standards in a very embarrassing blunder for the government so the u. K. Is able to produce a fair share of its own people theres no imminent guarantee that it wont need to source from abroad again with experts in the field saying that the quality is the key component of effectiveness in prayer. Virus perhaps the government should try before you buy theyve been dealing with the shortages by revising the accounting tactics why not double the numbers instead of counting each pair of gloves as one why not count each glove individually and hey presto youve doubled your stock without even lifting a finger this catalogue of errors certainly were surely to get it right the 2nd time around if theres a 2nd time around that is but in line with most of the governments coronavirus responses they say its too soon i didnt consider the moment. Is a good use of official talk earlier this week the charts are announced a 15000000000 pounds boost to p. P. S. But will it be a case of too little too late especially as some of those in government say were only halfway through this pandemic charge added. Apart from the impact on health and leaving millions of the coronavirus is also threatening to leave many people hungry too a new report by oxfam does warn that code 19 is triggering a food crisis that could potentially double the number who die from hunger each year if you trust god he is the head of humanitarian policy for Oxfam International and says its even affecting well developed countries too. Whats really worrying in this report is were seeing new centers under developing in an otherwise middle income in developed countries some of the countries we do look at the reports include India South Africa brazil these countries where there are recently developed economies and yeah impact that were seeing from corona virus is going to have dire consequences on the most Vulnerable People in those societies and say its going to happen i mean theres this poor people in every country and the same impacts are going to slow down so what were seeing from coronavirus is that both it makes its more sort of vulnerable for poor people but it also makes them more vulnerable to the economic side as well and thats going to be across the world 8 of the biggest food and drink manufacturers have paid after the 18000000000. 00 to their shareholders now looking back to what we were speaking about humanitarian aid the global humanitarian appeal is just over 7000000000. 00 so clearly theres something wrong and the money is flowing to the Big Companies and its really not getting down to the people that need it. Well the World Food Program does the estimate the number suffering from crisis level hunger will double by the end of the year reaching 270000000 people and oxfam says that 12000 a day could die from starvation if nothing is done or the worst hit our countries are already deemed unstable before the pandemic nations such as yemen or afghanistan where many citizens had already been suffering from hunger for years will see the numbers at risk rise and some middle income in developed countries such as brazils been heard in india are also on the danger list Matthew Truscott again insists there are measures to minimize its effect on hunger but governments need to fast. For the time being there are 3 things we need to do so firstly we urgently need to increase humanitarian aid and at the moment the United Nations has put out an appeal for about 7000000000. 00 and thats only been 24 percent funded so were not getting nearly enough money for the humanitarian aid that we need at the 2nd thing that we can do is looking into issues like canceling debt if we cancel the debt of some developing countries we estimate that could free up up to a trillion dollars for those countries to be using to help those people and that can pay for things like food they can pay for Social Security social protection they can pay for things like health so sharing up the data could make a huge difference and thats just a matter of wealthy nations really giving up some of the debt owed to them by other countries and the 3rd thing that we need to do and in and this is a long term change is we need to change our food system works we need to build a more fair more robust a more equal food system food system thats a bit of that say able to deal with Climate Change thats able to respond to shocks this able to be sustainable and to support that the small scale farmers and small producers rather than just putting money into Big Companies if a 2nd wave does come we know the people who are going to be the most trouble for that and if there are restrictions put in place by governments to take that to address that 2nd wave those restrictions have to be have to be able to cater to the needs of the poorest people so we need to make sure that the food systems are there to get food where its needed to make sure that people have the resources to buy that actually. Meanwhile the u. K. Government is allowing british citizens to travel to 59 countries without her having to quarantine upon return it does come as life has been slowly returning to normal in the u. K. In the past few weeks with many bars and restaurants and public spaces gradually reopening. As of this weekend artists musicians and dancers can stop performing live outside to outdoor audiences will also have the resumption of recreational sport followed later by the reopening about gyms swimming pools and Leisure Centers however despite this positive attitude towards easing coronavirus measures and reopening borders the u. K. Does have one of the highest coby death rates in the world followed by spain italy the us and also france and while the governments announcement will allow british tourists to visit many European Countries it seems they may not get the warmest of welcomes because a recent poll does reveal many europeans are not thrilled at the prospect of taking in british travellers without the self isolating in fact in many European Countries the majority do seem to be opposed to the idea. Or your brains will be broken or it is in our nature to welcome people and they would also give us a big hand the economic lee in my opinion alter is has come to italy will be well received i think they will be regarded somewhat with suspicion. First of all we need to make sure that they do not have the virus that they have had to test until ok and then then they have the right to enjoy themselves here i think its better if everybody stays at home not just the british right now everybody should stay home i think thats the most reasonable course they need to be checked but i dont see any reason to stop them from coming theyre still part of europe and now. Long as they respect social distancing the whirring of mosques it favors the development of tourism. Now scientists are calling for an investigation into the presence of the corona virus in say wage that is after traces of cave it were found in samples in barcelona dating back 9 months prior to the break scientists at the University Barcelona and the virus in a sample of sewage water collected march last year if confirmed it suggests that the virus didnt originate in china but instead was dormant across the world and only flared up in december dr Tom Jefferson from Oxford University believes we should be focusing on identifying all possible ways of transmission. If sars to be true was so widespread at least to be that we know or barcelona since march 2019 why has it all of a sudden appeared in the same book in january and in northern italy in february of this year this is a question that were trying to answer looking at possible theory worlds which like Temperature Humidity and so on which of the possible bearing on this what we should be focusing on are things like how is this far is transmitted you know there are several ways it could transmit from person to person so is it one way or is it 2 ways or is it 3 ways whats the main way transmits does the temperature. And we interpret should have anything to do with transmission. But these are important Public Health questions which will help us to understand it. John stennis transmission focus the missions. Still to come this hour don trump commutes a prison sentence for his former advisor what you stole he was convicted of lying to congress showing the russian collusion probe that story just after the break. We go to work you straight home. Say young people for a while you know its up them to make it in their own image and on the money els and jan say im a boomer you know i already had the. 40 or 50 Year Experience in the United States post world war 2 coast landing you know stock markets never out of work they my life because of that and you know so its up to them to decide whats great make a crane and good luck with that. Again i dont trump is fighting a backlash after granting clemency to his former aide just study and it does come i was off to the Appeals Court refused to delay the start of stuns 40 month sentence which he was given for lying to congress chewing the russia collusion kind of milk in his milk. The decision from the white house comes just 4 days before roger stone was expected to present himself at a federal prison and start serving his sentence of 40 months in prison after being convicted of obstruction of justice now the white house presented a lengthy report describing roger stone as essentially a political operative who briefly worked with the Trump Campaign in 2016 and became a victim of the russian collusion hoax the white house to question the partiality of the decision and sentence which roger stone faced mr stone was challenged by the same prosecutors from the miller investigation toast with finding evidence of collusion with russia because no such evidence exists however they could not charge him for any conclusion related crime instead they charged him for his conduct during their investigation the simple fact is that if the special counsel had not been pursuing an absolutely baseless investigation mr stone would not be facing time in prison now according to the white house report bob mahlers prosecutors charged roger stone simply with process crimes that were quote soley from their own improper investigation and the white house went on to say that the prosecutors quote took pains to make a public and shameful spectacle of his arrest they tipped off c. N. N. Allowing his arrest to be filmed on Live Television now at this point weve got democrats speaking up and saying that donald trump is essentially abusing the rule of law and legal processes in the United States essentially from the president saying if you lie for me you cover up for me i will reward you on the other hand if you are a rat and you cooperate then like a mafia boss i will come after you Richard Nixon at the height of watergate never pardoned or commuted the sentences of any of the people involved in watergate i have no doubt does. Donald trump is going to pardon himself he is going to pardon the volga trump he is going to pardon gerald cush there are the charges on which roger stone was convicted flowed from the special counsel Robert Muller investigation into allegations that trump colluded with russia during the 2016 elections now no evidence of trump russia collusion was ever discovered but a number of individuals associated with the Trump Campaign which charged with process crimes as well as unrelated charges now roger stone admitted that during the 2016 elections he did indeed promote the wiki leaks emails of the emails that were provided to wiki leaks from Clinton Campaign manager john podesta however he says he had no prior knowledge of any emails that we do it was going to publish and he certainly was not involved in any hacking or data jumping or anything to that effect. Almost 2 months after the rise of the black lives matter movements sparked by the killing of george floyd in the u. S. The impact is still being felt around the world in the german capital for example moves are underway to rename a metro station which has been doing to be racist but norton it is suggested by transport authorities is also proven to be no less controversial as peter all of a explains. The killing of george floyd by us police and the rise of the black lines months of movement around the world led to a reckoning from monuments to racism colonialism and slavery. The land is also wrangling with the names of its plots an alleyway here in the very heart of the german capital is more in strasser more or more in english is seen as a derogatory term for people from north africa while berlin city Authorities Say it may take a while to change the street name the capitals probably transport provider want to change to the underground stations name quick sharp new transport maps are going to be issued by the end of this year out of understanding and respect for the occasional controversial debate about the street name the d. V. D. Has now decided not to use it any longer as the name of the underground station the problem is that the name that they going to replace it with is going to strasser which runs nearby the station now this is where things start to get complicated the russian born 19th century composer. Is regarded as one of the greats of Classical Music he spent his final days in berlin and as with a street named after him in the german capital the issues arise when you look at the motifs that appear in his work through modernize the opera prince comiskey employees deeply anti semitic things the group is anti semitic even if anti semitism was prevalent and widely accepted at the time. I dont necessarily think we should get rid of the names of streets all station named after people like but renaming a station after him nowadays in berlin is quite a different matter theyre all those who oppose the view of lincoln as an anti semite and say his work on beliefs being misrepresented blaming going for antisemitism is a bit of stretch really you have to understand the context you have to understand history whereas glencoe was not interested in the attic he had jewish friends and kept in touch with many Famous Artists of jewish origins for him its nice that it was not important this isnt the only part of names or an issue in the vetting district there is enough for a kid quarter where peter. And plots are named after the germans who for the colonialism the city did say that some streets would be renamed in 28. 00 but they are still here in lindorff they didnt didnt. Named after the victor in the battle of town and good world war one who later went on to be a figurehead for only nazis and appointed hitler as chancellor. Who also has a square named after him the city was a colossus of neo classical and neo gothic architecture he designed the Brandenburg Gate but also the eigen cross the award now so closely associated with germanys period of nazi rule politicians from the green party have welcomed the move to rename the station but have said that k n e to be taken over what it will be called in the future it is welcome that the b. G. Has taken their own naming of the morningstar sounder ground station into consideration has to actions are not appropriate in such matters theres been an underground station here for 112 years and whatever the name changed. 2 it will be the 4th incarnation of this particular stop until racism campaigners want to see the streets and the station named after. The 1st black man to be enrolled in a diversity piece are all of our take. And that brings you up to date this saturday morning here in r. T. More from us in just over. What weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy. Let it be an arms race is off and spearing Dramatic Development the only. Exists i dont see it. Will be successful very critical time to sit down in tok. During the vietnam war us forces are also. There was a secret war. And for years the American People did not know. Until our cell my skin is officially the most heavily bombed country per capita. Human history millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this Small Agricultural country. Even today kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago it is the us making amends for their tragedy in laos what help do the people need in that little land of mine. No mention returns you were going underground as u. S. Voters in louisiana cast their president ial primary ballots in the race for the white house but will arguably do nothing to help the coronavirus recovery in the country with the most confirmed cases and deaths in the world coming up in the show while the Mainstream Media focus on the lives lost to grow the virus groundbreaking youre a scientist professor adrian owen tells us how covert 970 was may be left with profound long term damage than to china faces criticism from nato nations for its National Security law and on kong we speak to the youngest of a person to become a legislator in the former british colony about fleeing alleged persecution to build an International Consensus all of them all coming over delays going underground at 1st throughout the current pandemic weve heard that the us has the highest reported number of deaths worldwide while the u. K. Has the highest death count but capita worldwide belgium but we havent heard much about covert patients who have apparently recovered groundbreaking neuroscientist Western University in canada Reza Adrian Owen is studying the after effects of those survivors and believes the findings will show some will develop profound neurological problems hes here to tell me about it via skype from london in on terrio thank you adrian for coming on so normally maybe youd be in an i. C. U. For the past few months youve been looking into this now with the Research Well we just we Just Launched a little over a week ago and what were trying to do is to recruit 50000 cope its. Because you know its becoming more and more obvious as people are starting to be nurturing the. Immediate impact of the virus that that theyve been concentrating on is in memory problems and so solving