A post in the netherlands which he passed would give elderly people the right. Even if they are suffering from any medical conditions we put the thorny issue up to back. It is for elderly people. Themselves so nobody else sink their life at this moment no worth living anymore it was a Compassionate Society we should be making people feel loved rather than feeling like a burden so much so that they would want to be good to go from the u. S. Accuses china of sponsoring hackers to spy on American Companies working on a vaccine for 19. Other good afternoon its 2 oclock here in moscow youre watching international now the u. K. Government claims it has recognized the threat posed by russia for a long time and considers moscow a secure. Priority it also says to you it has a 30 year strategy for dealing with the kremlin well this was londons response to a report on alleged russian meddling in british politics that was released on chaves day it accuses the u. K. A failing to take the threat seriously who is protecting the British Public from. Serious you know democratic process blue note show. No one in the u. K. Go if you are youll pull this about school for something from terrorism we found the defense you can be difficult process is a total government run by belief underestimating the stones required to be russian straight and this still fully conscious yet range isnt the recent. Yeah were used to know. If there was all the rush to report there had been sat on by the government for a year and a half before it was finally released on tuesday down hawkins looks at what he said they get a very brief summary of the long awaited russian report we can go straight to page 13 of the document the written evidence provided to us appeared to suggest that her majestys government had not seen or sought evidence of successful interference in u. K. Democratic processes seems to be enough so if youre short on time or dont want to read heavily redacted intelligence and political spiel scott what signal otherwise lets go on. Open source studies have pointed to the preponderance of pro breaks it or anti e. U. Stories on our t. V. And sputnik and the use of bots in trolls as evidence of russian attempts to influence the process we have sought to establish whether there is secret intelligence which supported or built on these studies in response in my 5 initially provided just 6 lines of text the reports authors were seemingly surprised by the limited response of the Intelligence Services but not because those agencies may have more important priorities such as protecting lives by tackling International Domestic terrorism or serious crime apparently more resources are needed to keep track of social media and arties editorial policies and coverage breaks it polarized millions with several broadcasters coming under fire but its still russia that poses the risk and the Security Services that are doing their job this is about the protection of the u. K. s democratic process and mechanism from hostile state interference which should fall to our intelligence and security agencies after all moscow has been waging influence campaigns targeting u. K. Politics through Digital Media wealthy individuals organizations and almost any other means the report warns the threats of russian influence is a hot potato with intelligence and other agencies shirking the responsibility of taking the lead in tackling it and reassuring the public amid widespread allegations of again the impact of such influence remains elusive. The impact of any such attempts would be difficult if not impossible to assess and we have not sought to do so state agencies havent looked closely enough for open Source Information according to the report they lacked a retrospective assessment and intelligence agencies in particular need a more Important Role in future the committee was struck by the relatively small proportion of work that is carried out by the agencies in relation to russia in any case should they consider other threats to be a higher priority they can always fall back on trusted russian experts to lead the way Christopher Steele author of the infamous anonymous Golden Shower dossier and contributors that the institute for state craft and Integrity Initiative a project founded to tackle the russian threat receiving state funding to advise the states that russia is a threat and moscows response was swift and predictable as was the final conclusion of the long awaited russia report showing yet again that any reproach went with the u. K. However small is still beyond the horizon and hawkins that we got reaction on the streets of london to the claims that were made in the report burnish i dont believe. The position more saddam or destruction was really going on. And the fact there were a shot of russia was there just by the enemy i just think we cant get to the way she seemed to feel and this kind of thing to do with them lately to know if they were telling this now wait it may take a listen to beginning where. You know other countries ruined the politics of other people will try to influence for a row government interest the former British Ambassador to his make a stand on human rights advocate craig morrey believes that the u. K. Is determined to ruin any relations with russia. Reporters know extremely unconvincing in itself and that it doesnt even purport to give any evidence of what it claims to be happening i think its a you know its fairly laughable theres nothing concrete in it the u. K. Is determined to ruin your russian relations you must remember there are people in the armaments industry and the Security Industry who make a lot of money out of having blusher as an enemy of the Security Industry in the armament industry need an enemy in order to get the best of us mugs to to pay them billions and billions in our taxes every year but they suck out of the system and thats what this is about this is about portraying an enemy in fact theres no division at all for enmity between the u. K. And russia and certainly no imagery between the u. K. People and the russian people. And your has been proposed in the netherlands which if passed would allow elderly people to opt for assisted suicide even if they are not suffering from any medical conditions that learns is one of the few countries that have legalized euthanasia however the m. P. Behind the bill claims that the current laws dont go far enough right now people jump into a canal or put a plastic bag on their head they sometimes have to choose the most terrible ways to die thats why i want to give the possibility to die with dignity with members of their family or friends near them i think this law is important even if its about a few people because we give them the possibility to have a say on their end of life even when theyre not terminally ill or suffering medically but still suffering. President dutch law says that a person is only eligible for euthanasia if their suffering is unbearable with no prospect of improvement at least 2 doctors must check the patients condition before at ministering a lethal injection to the person or also strict requirements as to how to how the procedure itself is carried out and who performs it well the proposed law has drawn criticism with people arguing or thorazine should do you should be doing more to help people in need rather than just hand them a suicide pill we put the issue up for debate with rob john queery hes the executive director of World Foundation of right to die associations and also with roger kiska hes from the christian legal center. It is part of policy told get around the people a good quality of life of course a face a bit strange to talk about. Terminating life has being told make better quality of life but thats exactly what the law is for it is for elderly people who are themselves so nobody else no family think their life nice at this moment no worth living anymore not because they are ill but just because they are too old for them selfs and in reality 98 percent of them as a study has shown if given the proper bedside manner if shown that they are worth something when we want to live so as a Compassionate Society we should be making people feel loved rather than feeling like a burden so much so that they would want to be put to death and i am confident stated all countries around the world doc clones are helping patients die if they really do want to die but it is done in secret and in the netherlands said east we do it in the open and so we know why in the netherlands how many times a doctor hes forced in his own id to assist someone to determine its his life any time there is a debate about assisted suicide or euthanasia the opponent of this is would always point to the netherlands because there it is it is gone from bad to worse i think dutch doctors have gone from euthanizing the terminally ill to the chronically ill people a serious disability to the mostly and mentally ill now that could just be elderly euthanasia was a platform of nazi germany as well so we can derive it. The reality is you dont think all of us we should use our name and we should want people to look at all these efforts made with a covert to keep the elderly communities safe. Why would we now throw it out of the window and say at 75 your life is no longer worth living if you dont want to live it lets work with the other community to make them feel. Wanted to make their lives better there are older people they must be 75 years or older or will like to terminal kill situation patients do not want to live. In that situation and they want to have to try to say i want rather to be there to tell people in this way and i want to die dignified this and that has nothing to do with spending in more me trying to make your life better that is what every doctor every person supervisor will fight for family will fight for it but if in the eyes of the person who wants to die there is no possibility or no real possibility then they should have the right to die in a dignified way instead of suicide to the European Court of human rights has been clear that this is not a human right 15 or 20. Or euthanized in the netherlands every year and one person is buying it as does the suicide with the us supported by. The 1st of all babies are not euthanized because they have a separate and it is not you to mazie are because they cannot also principle it is not euthanasia and to persons very definitely. Without Doctors Orders you know at this the do you detail that we do not consider them to have euthanasia they will have help in shortening their life. At it looks like euthanasia but it is not euthanasia it is fairly pertinent to make the difference friends with the adult euthanasia in the netherlands and the babies who are seriously ill. Are helped to terminate her lifes. Now a couple who shot to notoriety is the borning clyde office in lewis after they confronted black lives massive protesters with firearms have been charged with unlawful use of a weapon supporters of the pair including the governor of missouri and the attorney general of this had argued that they had acted within their right to defend their own kind of explains how this story does highlight deep divisions in american society. Political polarization in the United States is becoming more intense basically youve got 2 there its on the one hand you can support defunding the police and taking down confederate statues or on the other hand you can support federal officers on the streets of portland abducting activists and engaging in acts of repression there doesnt seem to be much middle ground these days. And. Now this white couple who stood in front of their mansion and pointed guns at protesters has become a social media sensation and theyre now facing felony charges my office photo agency against mark and Patricia Mccluskey following an incident involving peaceful protests on june 28th it is illegal to wave weapons in a threatening manner had those to spay ting in nonviolent protest now this couple has become symbolic of the ideological crack right down the middle of the United States your attitude toward the couple depends on whether you live in the old america or in the new one. Now this couple you threaten the crowd of protesters are pretty widely hated and theyve got quite a reputation in the local neighborhood filing lawsuits and smashing beehives how do you feel about becoming the face of political resistance to the black lives Matter Movement thats a completely ridiculous statement the president reveal his name for a reason he tried retreated that saying hed go get him bruce rather than the trigger for your turn at this point theyre probably the most hated couple in america theyve been dubbed can and karen the new dynamic duo of racism this mr and mrs smith sequel looks terrible ken and karen have had enough fox news has done to our parents what they thought gangsta rev would do to us. Now the attorney representing the couple says that the crowd of protesters damaged the iron gates of their mansion and threatened the couple before they drew their weapons and at this point weve got donald trump speaking up in their defense apparently people are allowed to just burn down other peoples homes or shoot people or kill people its out of control are able to be courageous to protect yourselves and defend your life so god bless you both and the attorney general of the state of missouri says he wants the charges dropped as they are politically motivated this includes the Castle Doctrine which provides. Your personal property against those who wish to do harm while the governor of missouri has already promised a full pardon that couple had every right to protect their property what they should not go through is a prosecutor attempting to take their Constitutional Rights away all you pradhan that with or without a doubt shot on ill do everything with the most constitution of the state of missouri to protect law abiding citizens there are 2 realities to some this couple are racists gun pointed guns in the face of Peaceful Protesters but to others there are Good American couple protecting their home from a mob of criminals and practicing their 2nd amendment constitutional right to bear arms there is no middle ground anymore the whole country is reduced to picking sides up and artsy new york. Training doctors have proposed renaming certain parts of the body claimed that the current designations often created by men are sexist and then take it. I think we have a personal choice to d. Colonize our language and these historical terms will feed out the young trainee doctors who are mostly keen to learn the most relevant language and are often shocked when they hear the origins of some medical terms dr small says some 700 body parts could do with renaming 2 examples she cites are the adams apple a make killies tale she wants the medical community to start a conversation about alternative designations vote she does admit the old terms still need to be taught for practical reasons critics saying this is just the latest manifestation of the socalled Council Culture im a pandering to be easily offended we canvassed opinions on the on the matter in new york. Its completely absurd and misplaced anger and misplaced aggression toward something that is completely irrelevant to any type of movement or any type of affirmation of any to anyone sexuality i think that especially in this country but around the world. A lot of people thought that the way its been the way you say but thats absolutely true i dont i cri of changing the names of. Body parts you know because for example its part of our story i doubt if you know what i mean i dont care what body parts are so i think thats why i think there are way more important things that you are already thinking. Of getting out of that really and i dont want to. Leave it as it is its by gender its about it. About bringing you know the gender on the water people what to say about their bodies ive never felt anything like that. International still to come for you the sad the race to be the 1st to develop a Coronavirus Vaccine is on with america now accusing yet another country of stealing its Research Well have a look at that plus get some analysis to just after the break. Join me every thursday on the alex simon short and ill be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business im showbusiness ill see you there. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. High salacious community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. To direct. What is true what is fake. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a maybe in the shallows. Welcome back now the u. S. Justice department has accused china of using hackers to spy on American Companies developing a vaccine for hiv 19 it does come a week after the u. K. Canada and the u. S. Flung similar allegations that russia. China has now taken its place alongside russia iran and north korea and the Shameful Club of nations that provide a safe haven for cyber criminals in exchange for those criminals being cool to feed the Chinese Communist partys insatiable hunger for american and other non Chinese Companies hard earned intellectual property including covert 19 research meanwhile china is working on its own vaccine a 2nd phase of testing was started in one hand over 500 adults said to take part and a new job was deemed to be safe reportedly in an immune response while on tuesday u. S. Secretary of state might pompei you came to the u. K. To discuss joint actions to counter the chinese threat and praise london for its tough stance on beijing and pompei accuse the Chinese Communist party of exploiting the pandemic for its own interests and stealing u. S. Intellectual property. We just we would no longer one of them to steal intellectual property denying citizens of the United States would work hard to create something to invent something to get a particular trademark in the Chinese Communist party directed at state owned enterprises to seal that property from americans we hope we can build out they call the ship that understands this great war which collectively can go to the Chinese Communist party its not in their best interest to get in this kind of behavior. Ok lets get some reaction now from take to get he joins us hes a Chinese International relations expert who would be good to know his thoughts are things are good to see you again what do you make of these accusations by the u. S. Against china. Now asking such allegations are groundless and pure that would be that is States Government actually should do a better job in containing the spread of. Virus preventing more and more American People. From getting contaminated china as the heads of the United States most likely have been there. Other countries in terms of developing the vaccine which is very very important the chinese president xi jinping already declared that was the vaccine produced by china is fully complete is china will declare that as an International Public good so that people in all countries can have the better of the vaccine this is the right thing to do and this is the right way for words and i think the United States government is really dropping into more and more people for situation where they want to accuse others without producing cruel and evidence at a time when the are so much in miserably in containing the virus and in preventing more and more deaths of the American People we saw a similar accusation last weekend at russia just after russia announced it was pretty far ahead in this trial of the vaccine and those accusations came from the us to you is for a pattern here to feel as though you know perhaps the Something Else at play or is there genuine concern that look spying goes ahead and were afraid that china and russia is spying on what were doing. No i think i can say that the allegations against china is groundless some fabrications why because china has really done an excellent job in containing the spread of virus and compared with many other countries the chinese deaths and. Infected a number of people are much smaller and china has devolved to its National Resources in developing the vaccine and chinas doing it in the right way promising to share it with people of all countries and for the United States which allegedly is still the only remaining superpower in the world the should actually participate in the Global Initiative launched by the w. H. O. Rather then backing out of the double your choice of this particular moment you should cooperate closely with other countries including lets say china and russia or many European Countries and japan for example in jointly developing the vaccine they are not doing it with the w. H. O. The are accusing others of stealing come up come up with more evidence come are come up with the truth there you have developed a vaccine and i think this is really very disappointing this is not big refitting the United States in its image of the only remaining superpower its really degenerating into a 2nd t. R. Even 30 a country in terms of how it looks at to self how it looks at the world and how it wants others to look at itself this is really very very unfortunate why do you think countries thing to be competing against one another then in the race to find a vaccine when as you said china says look if we get a vaccine 1st well give it to everybody. Absolutely you know what chinas doing is the right thing and i hope other countries will do the same it is really very very unfortunate that some countries are trying to monopolize the vaccine developed not only by its all scientists but by scientists and companies of other countries try to monopolize have a complete lock up on the vaccines yet to be developed however. Accusing other countries like china of stealing their intellectual property is really very ludicrous i see in the United States need to really watch what it does and match what is doing with its words and really devote you more time to save more American People and preventing more American People from getting infected i think right now only god can save america because those in high positions in the United States are not doing their job of saving american lives and prevent the American People i wish the American People all the good luck and i hope god rather than the leaders of the United States will save the American People ok very good will leave it there weve run out of time for you to gag Chinese International relations expert thank you thank you for having me. Meanwhile the u. S. Has representatives has passed an amendment to the National Defense authorization act which does impose further sanctions against Companies Involved in the construction of the north pipeline that project is aimed at pumping natural gas from russia to germany via the baltic sea bypassing traditional transit countries like ukraine washington though sees it as a threat to European Security and has already imposed sanctions in the past to prevent its completion this has angered though some european states among them germany news foreign minister joseph made it clear that the bloc would consider any u. S. Sanctions as illegitimate he stressed that european policy should be determined in europe and not by 3rd countries some in germany though have resorted to less diplomatic language to describe american pressure. If you didnt offer also we expect the European Commission to protect government and European Companies from this interference we fundamentally oppose extraterritorial sanctions and see them as unlawful. The aim of these actions by the United States is not from our perspective to reduce the dependence on russia but rather the goal is to be able to sell their own gas to europe and that is easier to do when less gas is delivered from russia does see construction of north train to begin in may of 2018 earlier u. S. Sanctions slapped on vessels and Companies Involved in the project has temporarily halted work on it but moscow says that in the worst Case Scenario it is ready to complete the pipeline on its own german economist and publisher talked i came told us that the americans probably dont expect any pushback from the euro pains but they may be in for a rude awakening. This is all this is really not true at all that they are harm that theyre taking care on european or german interest not their only only and only their own interest their own interest are if they could prohibit infrastructure that gets gas to germany then they dont have to compete to limit their infrastructure giving gas and oriel to europe and germany means that they can limit the. The competition and thats what they what i think they they went forward as usual europeans always fell on the knees because many people in europe are working for them for ages so they just thought they can they can bully them around our europeans as usual fall on their knees and do whatever they want but i dont think they have calculated the counter say into into their plan. And that brings up so thats how the news is looking so far today here not anything to get by always plenty of stories for you to look at at our website you can find that and off he. 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