To shut its consulate in the city of chengdu in response to the closure of its own. As the u. S. Secretary of state accuses beijing of trying to establish quote a new tyranny. From moscow to the world this is r. T. International good to have you with us you know. The u. K. s Opposition Labor Party is pushing for arties broadcast license to be revoked they leave their demands in the letter to the countrys t. V. Regulator ofcom the watchdog is supposed to be independent immune from political pressure. Through developments. These must be some sort of record in all of our t. s history it has done less harm if any both immediate and long term to Great Britain to the british people and britains future than one woman did in the space of a single letter and this woman she isnt a russian agent she isnt a foreign spy or bent on britains destruction no she is a member of the British Parliament i am writing to request it off calm urgently refuse license in light of this report in to request a meeting with you as soon as possible to discuss my concerns about the broadcaster just to bring everyone up to speed of course is an independent media regulator in the u. K. It has rules according to which every broadcaster in the u. K. Must be objective fair and to preclude any government interference or outside pressure of course is completely independent it must be thats the entire point the system has worked for so many decades of calm hasnt strayed it is mercilessly neutral objective but out of the blue come out multiple officials and they do something terrible they try to destroy what off call me ease distortions in the coverage provided by russian state and International Broadcasters such as russia today the high court has ruled that russia today broadcasts actually potential harm what these officials just did is set a precedent its its the worst sort of precedent one could set and attempt to pressure of course a politically motivated attempt to pressure or even dependent body to shut up someone they dont like using cherry picked arguments which couldnt stand up to so much as a gentle breeze. Yes they argue that he has violated of course rules been fined by off com which is true but these opposition members do mention is that other broadcasters like i dont know the b. B. C. Have 3 times as many violations b b c 41 violations in 10 years i. T. V. 49 sky news 40 c. 14 and that he hasnt had a single violation in 2 years separately you can sort of understand the allegedly on rebel members of parliament with a Prime Minister like Boris Johnson setting that example there isnt much to aspire to just the Prime Minister agree with me that its time to look at but the licensing for russia today operates in the u. K. Its a tricky business because we got in this would come more credibly from the leader of the opposition had equally got these former the former leader of the opposition when he took money hearing in russia today i mean michigan protests this is pretty protested neither against the leaders of the form of your position stance nor against his willingness to take money from russia today flip flops from day to day basis because this is what i mean the Prime Minister stands there making things up the never paid Jeremy Corbyn a penny to appear chattel never not a penny yet barsh johnson he stands there lying and everyone laps it up just hammer a few more nails into this this coffin of nonsense and i am big on hammering those nails in off course never found misinformation disinformation or untruths in any of our coverage of the soulsby incident to the bricks at referendum an analysis of off calm violations pay and there are different picture to the role playing fantasy being. Played out in the British Parliament has a comparable a better broadcasting standards record than you k. P. Is it was reported in october 2017 that the b. B. C. Is inundated with 1000 complaints a day 17 times as many objections as rival broadcasters combine obviously of com has dealt with busybodies before and i dont doubt they have their own views on an outsider telling them how to do their jobs but it is worried this hysteria that everything russian is becoming a medical and Mental Health concern an attempt by an endless stream of politicians to pin everything thats gone wrong everything they did wrong on russia and standing here on the sidelines you can only shake your head as you watch these suspects tickle unfold what is own worst example you can do of the russian interference well thats the question which we want to have answered. Well interestingly joe stevens the labor m. P. Who wrote the letter about r t homes in the past repeatedly stressed the need to uphold Media Freedoms. Our press freedom is a wonderful thing and something we must protect at all costs to help people to be informed journalists have a fundamental right to work free from fear we condemn the violent imitation and threats and regenerate our and they were in support of the dedicated journalists who shine a light on behalf of all it isnt just born it is blatantly hypocritical because she was in the house of commons talking about press freedom and yet the same very sane person writes this this is outrageous letter and i think we sometimes use that word outrageous too freely but this is generally outrageous and a leading British Parliamentarians shadow Spokes Person on media writing to the independent the supposedly independent media regulation u. K. Basically urging it to take a television station or to close it down there needs to be a backlash against this and what the labor party is doing at the moment is quite at it really they are attempting to be more hawkish on russia but the government that seems to be the line theyre taking. We now have the words of secure stammers Shadow Department of Culture Media and sport secretary in a private letter sent to this independent regulator saying almost telling the urgently i need to see you to see her to do was to politically interfere with an independent regulator devastated by the fact that sic here starmer seems obsessed by wanting to destroy a free press in britain puts the British Labor party in in the spotlight because that with have implications for a free press in this country for article 19 of the United Nations charter human rights charter it would have implications for the human rights act and presumably just as when he was banned for a defend Media Freedom summit here he would get help from amnesty international. Index on censorship obviously because yes john is crossed the line hes attempting perhaps to interfere with an independent. Independent media regulator politically. This is really a move by the labor party was. Engineered. They decided to be more people dont think this is a very significant letter from the labor view that theyve declared that theyre now on the russians and theyre going to become patriots and defending values well. Under broad commons independent and can take it. And shouldnt feel pressured by either the. Older conservative blogger. And moving the program on arounds Foreign Ministry has accused the u. S. Of endangering the lives of civilians after a passenger plane was forced to abruptly change off to china to avoid collision with an american fighter jet several passengers were injured in the incident. Was. Not on them on when we were over syria a fighter jet suddenly approached our plane and the pilot reduced the altitudes to prevent a collision this led to some passengers getting injured. Your plane approached our plane and caused the airplane to lose its balance and i had heat the ceiling you can imagine how terrifying that was this video of the american f. 15 flying close to the passenger jet was released by Iranian State media it happened over syria when the earlier was on its way from tehran to beirut during the emergency maneuver the sudden. Jolt calls passengers to hit their heads on the roof of the cab and laugh some spalling on the floor the u. S. Military insists its are a craft kept a safe distance while conducting a visual inspection we discussed the situation with politics professor full blood is a me. Obviously the policy of maximum Pressure Campaign on your own is not working and resorting to these type of tactics terrorizing women and children on a civilian airliner. They are not supposed to be in this corridor air corridor so that its illegal should not be approaching a civilian airliner thats illegal and should not be in syria thats the Syrian Government has asked the United States to leave its territories syria as an independent country so by engaging in these type of activities they have violated the Chicago Convention they have while it is syrias solvency. They did not do this before this is. An airliner that has been going to lebanon for many many years this is the 1st time they have done that so this may be a policy decision to escalate these type of pressures against iran given the fact that the Trump Administration may be out of office in january. Security forces in Portland Oregon being seen firing tear gas rubber bullets out of crowd of protesters public anger has been boiling over since the deployment of u. S. Federal troops there. Those troops were sent in earlier this week by a president on trying to quell increasingly violent anti racism protests the white house claims the myrrh of portland has lost control of the city for ever more than a dozen u. S. Marines all democrats voiced alarm over the federal crime down meanwhile the unrest has hit Small Businesses in portland shops and been vandalized on looted over the past 2 months one of the targets was a Jewelry Store thats been operating for 30 years back in may looters broke into the premises and stole numerous items the owner no hike a sub sees clients are afraid to go downtown be coals of their protests. Are not the only ones many businesses in Downtown Portland are hurt its not the portland we know its not the city that weve been doing business in for over 30 years its just boarded up streets. You know a lot of graffiti just destruction everywhere and were very disappointed with the studio i dont consider what theyre doing its tutorship when you feel businesses like that when your city looks like a war zone that stuff failed leadership and were very disappointed were very angry and at this time we just dont know what the future of Downtown Portland will look like and you allow lawlessness when you allow looting and we dont hold people accountable this stuff is going to continue and if their leadership failed the businesses the residents of Downtown Portland big time and just why this is happening there is no accountability being held right now against looters. The iconic i s. Of fear in istanbul has reopened for muslim prayers with its 1st friday worship comes after a top Turkish Court revoked its status as a museum its the. Time on Islamic Service has been held in the building and almost 90 years of worshippers gathered on the nearby square for the event turkish president. Was also in attendance issue a quick look out the history of the u. S. School World Heritage site. Where from now on during prayer is the christian frescoes and icons of the former cathedral will be covered with curtains at other times though the artworks will be kept on uncovered with the holy site open to tourists. Well some World Leaders have criticized turning the site which was originally built as a christian cathedral into a mosque again inside turkey the decision was met with a mixed reaction one turkish poster find that almost half of respondents saw it as an attempt to shift focus away from the countrys economic woes we spoke to some people in istanbul as take a listen to what they. Feel is a fundamental right of muslims thats been converted into a mosque as a result of this victory no muslims can pray freely when highness a fee was a museum there was a restriction that prevented worship. But its totally the wrong decision even if its not an insult it can offend people after all the founder of our country gifted highest fear to humanity as a museum and i think it would be better if it retained the status of historical artifact. We need to respect every religion in fact mohamed had always advised peace saying a christian neighbor is in my care there arent supposed to be any into theat conflicts it is important that the eye is severe remains a museum and it is important that it becomes a mosque but it doesnt matter to me. This is. Great because you know im stupid arms for as the center of the. World now keep the right tool range the moron know what he is some porpoise. And then perhaps preparing an election so in therapy so this is a he is a domestic when you become started i think not in the seizure. Is reality not of france or greece the us and the same time of france or. Civilization in the community there are rewards that is against this decision it harms the relations between the groups and and that in nations between the european and the union and the other groups the im not gonna lose their. Day in the. Museum. To another story were closely following today china has ordered the us to shut its consulate in the city of chiang to a tit for tat and after washington ordered beijing to close its Diplomatic Mission in houston china saying its not looking for a fight. The Current Situation in bilateral relations which the u. S. Is entirely to blame for is not what china desires to see once again we urge the us immediately to retract its wrong decision and create the necessary conditions for bringing relations between the 2 countries back on track some of the personnel in the u. S. Consulate in chengdu engaged in activities inconsistent with their capacities and interfered in chinas internal affairs they harmed chinas National Security interests china has repeatedly made representations to the former consulates and america is aware of this. The trumpet ministration ordered china to shelter its houston consulate on tuesday mike pompei we defended the decision claiming that beijing was stealing intellectual property china call the closure of its consulate a political provocation and said its embassy in washington all received Death Threats to 2 anti chinese sentiment they say was being whipped up by trump meanwhile the u. S. Secretary of state has called on other nations to form an alliance against india. But we have to admit hard truth we messed about with the should guide us in the years and decades to come we want to have a free 21st century and not the chinese century of what dreams the old paradigm of blinding gauge with china simply get it done the United Nations nato. G 7 countries the g 20 our combined economic diplomatic and military power is surely enough to meet this challenge we directed clearly and with great courage to free world must triumph over this new tyranny so why is this escalation happening we heard from china expert on li who believes the u. S. Is acting in fear. Many people in the United States are extremely upset with the very authoritarian way that the trumpet ministration is dealing with the protesters and basically accused china of not following the norms and violating human rights a lot of people would probably cry foul and say oh you sound like youre being a hypocrite here us for policy folks basically are worried that china would eclipse the us economically and then therefore politically be and in militarily over time and thats their biggest fear i dont think it has it in to human rights. A youth court in germany has 100 on a suspended sentence to a 93 year old mom at the age of 17 he was an s. S. Concentration camp guard hes been convicted over 5000 counts of accessory to murder or europe correspondent peter all over him. This 2 year suspended sentence that was handed down to 93 year old bruno de could well be the last verdict on the down to a perpetrator of crimes during the holocaust he was found guilty of being an accessory to 5232 counts of murder while he was an s. S. Guards the concentration camp. Due to his age 93 years old as i said it was always only likely that the job. It was going to hand down a custodial sentence the 2 year suspended sentence though was greeted with mixed opinion by those representing the victims i understand how they reached the suspended verdict but i cant accept this its all because a suspended sentence for a mass murder even when the defendant was a teenager juvenile is basically sending the wrong signal this is the verdict is balanced this verdict is also a signal to Foreign Countries namely that these crimes will be punished even 70 to 75 years after must murder the judge. Said that bruno de viewed himself as just of observer in the killings that were going on and she also contradicted claims made by the defense team the 93 year old would have tried to escape from the camp himself if an opportunity had arisen the judge said he knew what was going on there and how people were being killed earlier this week we heard from bruno di himself who said how he felt about the actions that took place all those years ago i would like to apologize to those who went through this hell of madness and their relatives Something Like this can never be repeated there are other investigations into the crimes of the holocaust ongoing but due to the well the amount of years that have elapsed since the crimes were committed and the age of those who are accused of perpetrating those crimes as well as the age of those who survived it seems that this trial may be the last one in the german court that will be seen through to completion. Lets head stateside again because a new york city is in the midst of a surging gun crime on them or build a blast to seize the blame for the breakdown in law and order lines where a pandemic. Weve had a very tough few months no doubt and it is directly related to the coronavirus the dislocation thats caused in our society the fact our court system is not functioning yet yes some startling figures last month the number of shootings and burglaries in new york more than doubled compared to june last year about how up and just as the n. Y. P. D. Disbanded it sound to crime units and made the must sound to the Police Protests last week 0 ever even once the new plan to counter the violence starting fluid shifting officers to more dangerous areas that we got reaction from corey pegs corys a former new York Police Commander and he told us Law Enforcement needs to reexamine its entire approach the i think theres a lot of them to be when in fact is that a rise in crime you need to coronavirus i believe some of the laws that was in acted in the 7 just pretty much lay down and i really do and so look for memos a run in a foot in new york city in pretty much a state where theyre saying hey we dont want the police were going to show you which i think they should be taking a proactive approach that they just need for the Police Commissioner and his top leadership executive staff to come up with some innovative ideas not get rid of the anticrime unit around the city and leave valid reasons for outplaying close humans think they should have done something more appropriate. Theres a new front in the u. S. Russia standoff and this time its thousands of kilometers above us washington has accused russia of testing a new space weapon according to americas new Space Command a suspicious projectile was fired by a russian inspector satellite last week. This is further evidence of russias continuing efforts to develop and test space based systems and consistent with the kremlins published military doctrine to employ weapons that hold United States and light speeds assets at risk will be u. K. Has chimed in on those accusations the Defense Ministry official accuse russia of launching a space project out with the cart the risk of a weapon or moscow has given a very different version of events the Foreign Ministry said the test took place on july the 15th in which a small space vehicle was sent from one russian satellite to inspect another. The tests that the russian Defense Ministry conducted enjoy the 15th did not pose any threat to other Space Objects and most importantly did not violate any norms and principles of International Law u. S. And u. K. Officials comments on the matter a part of the washington initiated Information Campaign aimed at discrediting russias space activities and peaceful initiatives preventing an arms race in space washington and london are trying to deflect the public attention from their own deployment of weapons in space and attempts to gain funding for these ngs. Lets try and make sense of the stellar goings on with physicist marc good broods mark is an urgent professor in peace war and defense of the university of North Carolina and his very welcome to the program mart 2 very different occurrence here russia says it sent a small probe from one satellite to another the u. S. And u. K. Say a test fired a space weapon could you prospect lead us to to what you think may have happened here. Thank you for having me on. A based on some of the reporting its come out the projectile if you call it that or satellite that russia claimed that it had released from the one from. The larger satellite to another larger so that it was time to have been released speed around 200 meters per 2nd or 420 Miles Per Hour so that that wouldnt make any sense for an Inspection Mission it so that if that report is accurate and i cant say that it is because i havent had firsthand data but but but thats what we hear that looks like a weapons test but let me just say. If it is a weapons test well i dont support russia doing that i wish they would stop but its kind of hard for me as an american to call it hypocritical for russia to be testing and developing space weapons while at the same time proposing that we enter negotiations toward a ban of such weapons that russia and china have been proposing that for at least 20 years and the United States has consistently rejected that proposal has not really been willing to enter negotiations at all. Any time any kind of space arms control but in fact the russians chinese proposal would forbid the kind of activity well assuming that this was a weapons test and again i dont know but based on the reports it looks like it was and it certainly would fall under category of activities that would be very suspicious as and when he would need to be investigated if there were a space weapons ban and space weapons test ban in place but i think its a bit much for americans to call it hypocritical for russia and china to continue to develop. The space weapons when the United States is also doing this has in fact been the leading force in the development of space weapons as has done most of the experiments. It had before before russia or china. Going back into the early 2000 its ok in fact going back decades and the u. S. Position has not been interested in space arms control since since the Clinton Administration at least even then we didnt say that we were actually interested in it so youve got to go back to jimmy carters Administration Line in america deposal for arms control in space so i dont think its hypocritical at all for russia to be testing such weapons when we refuse to engage in any discussion of banning or restricting them in any way can i prompt on another aspect here because weve heard for quite some time the Us Space Force mark was created 7 months ago could this could this be a way of perhaps justifying its existence as well on a 15000000000 dollar budget lets not forget by amplifying i suppose a threat here. Well yes this certainly played out for the propaganda value i cant say that russia is taking this action again assuming that it was a Weapons Development test it doesnt look like it be an operational weapon looks like an experiment towards a possible Weapons Development but i cant say that. But i can i mean i dont think its hypocritical for the for russia to do this its very similar to what the u. S. Called the 2 track approach back in 1980 s. When