So theyre welcome just on the day here in moscow youre watching International Turkeys landmark. Which through its long history has also been a cathedral and a mosque has been converted back into a place for muslim prayer. I mean like all of other mosques the doors of the hagia sophia will be open to all locals all foreigners muslims and muslims hagia sophia humanities 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. Or since bush appears to have to wait another 2 weeks for the hacking safina to reopen for prez this friday saw them gathering at side the newly converted mosque the president coming shortly after to his high court and 934 decision to turn it into a new museum misuse of edom has more. Turkeys council they reach the decision to a no 1934 Ministers Council decision that turn i stop you must museum so this decision being an old so now be reverted back to moscow now what will change with the ice so yeah nobody looking forward well the main thing thats going to change is. To be a 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 be open 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 of the United States views a change in the stages of the hagia sophia as diminishing the legacy of this remarkable building and its own supposed to been a decent 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 what a 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 can provocation. And i commend nature of the monument circus president ial spokesman ibrahim cohens giving it sure and says that turkeys going to try hard 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 arpaio sophia to worship doesnt keep local or Foreign Tourists from visiting the site so a loss from the worlds heritage is not in question. 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 in the service the church for the record the docks they keep 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 weeks from the turkish president weve seen tweets from the finance minister the president S Communications director as well expressing. Weve seen the opposition take a very white and many positive reaction coming out of the muslim world theyre celebrating this decision that. Once again. Worship. When a former greek ambassador did tell us that he believes that turkeys move will reignite tensions between religions. And spain belonged to the initiative. Civilization it was an initiative that was started about 10 or 15 years ago which had objective to stop the one clicks we can it be. I dont think it has been successful what it is a shame. And see who found it new should it be taking such a measure to have tensions between. The. World and this is something that. Were going to create europe but the romeros mention in his 1st reaction. To believe. A yes or becoming a monster. In a move to change the perceived crisis knowing that metro station. In the new suggestion by transport authorities proved to be controversial but have a look at that story. Now while restrictions are slowly lifted in the u. K. Concern remains a back to potential 2nd wave of 19 and many think that a shortage of personal protective equipment might once again be an issue chatty at which trash has more story. As a u. K. R. Knocks the lock down it seems many are 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 lockdown lessons havent been 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 were worried about catching the virus at work while the government stresses that the main challenge it faced was getting the right p. P. 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 improve this mask so theres a lot of loss of freight and you need to answer this rather than to say the market has now been resolved with demand spiralling think 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 about 400000 much needed p. P. Counts upon arrival it emerged at 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. Actually against the virus perhaps the government should try before you buy. Do you know what the shortage is by revising the accounting tactics why not double the numbers instead of counting each pair of gloves as one why not count each club 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. If. Its a good use of official talk earlier this week the charts are announced a 15000000000 pounds boost to p p 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. Now aside from the impact on health and leaving millions jobless the coronavirus is also threatening to leave people hungry to a new report by oxfam warns that 19 is triggering a food crisis that could potentially double the number who die from hunger each year you trust scott is the head of humanitarian policy for Oxfam International and says its even affecting well developed countries. Whats really worrying us reports is were seeing new sentence of hunger developing in an otherwise middle income in developed countries some of the countries we do look at and 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 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 the World Food Programme estimates the number suffering from crisis level hunger will double by the end of the year reaching 270000000 people an oxfam says to that 12000 a day could die from starvation if nothing is done the worst hit countries are already deemed to be unstable before the pandemic nation nations such as yemen or afghanistan where many citizens have already been suffering from hunger for years will see the numbers at risk rise and some middle income in developed countries such as brazil and india rules the one the danger list. Again insists though there are measures to minimize coves effect on hunger but governments do need to act 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 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 and more equal food system food system thats a bit of that 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 rate 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 would. The u. K. Government is allowing british citizens to travel to 59 countries without 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 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 france and while its the governments announcement will allow british tourists to visit many European Countries it does seem that they may not get the warmest of welcomes because a recent poll does reveal many europeans are not thrilled that the prospect of taking in british travelers with the self isolating in fact in many European Countries the majority seem to be against the me. Your plans are being broken or it is in our nature to welcome people and they will 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 that body 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. Meanwhile scientists according for an investigation into the presence of the coronavirus seen say which that is after traces of covert were found in samples in barcelona dating back 9 months prior to the will hand and break the scientists at the university of barcelona found the virus in a sample of sewage water collected in march last year if confirmed it does suggest 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 or ways of transmission. If sars truly 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 you know literally 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 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. Johnstone is transmission focus the mentions. Watching our face to let the sad donald trump comenius the prison sentence for his former pfizer or just was convicted of lying to congress during the russian collusion probe that story and more stuff. Join me every thursday on the alec simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see you then. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe from. Isolation community. Are you going the right way or are you being led so. What is true what is. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Aura maybe in the shallows. Hello again i dont trump is facing a backlash after granting clemency to his former aide roger stone it does come just hours after the Appeals Court refused to delay the start of stones 40 month sentence which he was given for lying to congress showing the russia collusion probe. Reports. 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 and questioned the partiality of the decision and sentence which roger stone faced mr stone was judged 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 this improvement 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 would you know it was going to publish and he certainly was not involved in any hacking or data dumping or anything to that effect. Almost 2 months after the rise of the black lives Matter Movement sparked by the killing of george floyd in the United States the impact is still being felt around the world and the german capital for example moves are under way now to rename the metro station which is now said to be racist but nor turn it if suggested by transport authorities is proving to be no less controversial as peter all of that explains. The killing of george floyd by us police and the rise of the black lives amounts of movement around the world led to a reckoning from monuments to racism colonialism and slavery. Is also wrangling with the names of it strasser 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 deviancy 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 and 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 there are 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 it 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 berlin where names are 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 still here in. Off days in didnt. Named after the victor in the battle of town and good world war one who later went on to be a figurehead for early nazis and appointed hitler as chancellor. Of friedrich schenkel who also has a square named up to 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 them 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 during the 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 changes. 2 it will be the 4th incarnation of this particular stop until Racism Campaign is want to see the street station named after. The 1st black man to be enrolled in a pressure university peter all of the lead. In the school observe a Steve Meisner thing is though that the current trend could have dangerous consequences for future generations. It could go very far because thats one of the more harmless meets really theres theres lots of names of generals were like you know were even like involved in the colonial war africa there is the whole area of religion called a few cars should fit but no means like the african quarter its. Street names are named after polices in this former alaskan colney so you can see that its not right you could look at bismarck seeing you also or did this in this and said is there anybody that would like to be judged to day by the standards that are going to exist in 100 years from now but we will tell you what the standards 100 years from now are going to be but were going to judge you agree to that i dont think anybody would like i really am and you reached everything you basically destroy peoples sense of history and their roots its the rubble of their roots and their basis of where they stand in the world and that brings up today for this hour this is a well thats how things are looking safe today here or not he was back again there in about 30 minutes. So we have inherited a brain constantly comparing itself to others. For a monkey with just for a bit of food it compares itself to others and if it seems that its weaker then it doesnt reach for the banana because its afraid of getting bitten if it sees that its stronger sarah tone is released and it goes for it and it feels good so we built patterns when we were young of comparing ourselves to others and making decisions about when you feel one anyone would feel one down and its easy to feel one down all the time if youre into alternated to think that way and then you end up with is what is all the time and thats the end of depression. Time of the time called parisian to repeat the same mantra sustainability its very important to accelerate the transition to sustainable price board sustainability stay number may not be more equitable and sustainable world. They claim their production is completely harmless. And. Companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is Something Else this we dont even and i mean look. We do want to. Underscore this is going. 2020