Transcripts For RT The Alex Salmond Show 20240712

Suggest you sue the Belfast Telegraph lol or you wont be saying about the telegraph but we hope you continue to watch the show some thanks so much for writing teddy says great show well done ireland flourishing and the wider world under spec to dispel this too could be scotland so i fear no says that was excellent interesting as always to listen to the guests on alex i mean sure says bertie crashed the economy and ireland in 2000 and nothing to it christopher response we could i q the globalist banking elite was to blame for the financial crash that pretty much affected every soul on earth and finally we hear from alison he says always a delight to listen to someone with credibility talk on t. V. And Immoral Coalition in the free state aisle if that continues the debate wishin fane high sing spokesman or no brain teehee. Or no bitterness rising star of sion fame and are responsible for hosting one of the policies that help the party have such a successful 2020 alexion campaign has been a member of the the door for dublin midwest since 2016 you know joins me from his office in the doyle on welcome to examine show alex thanks very much for having me. This question that my generalist said it shouldnt fade and scored heavily in the in the election and fair believe because of the the a to kill ation of social policies like your own subject of hosting and finance and the Health Service is it true to say that that was the cause of the breakthrough rather than support for a United Ireland. Well whats interesting is if you look at the exit poll data for example that the state broadcaster or teated here one issues like housing and health were absolutely central to our electoral success there still is a very very strong groundswell of opinion in favor of constitutional change in a United Ireland and particularly among our core vote a United Ireland continues to be of equal importance as for example improvements in health and housing childcare except for so for us we dont make a distinction between the 2 and i think increasingly what people are realizing and something theyve learned from from the advances of the Independence Movement scotland is that if you are to kill a to your proposals for constitutional change in the context of an alongside genuine improvement of peoples social and economic wellbeing then those 2 sets of arguments in each other and i think most of the reasons why we did so well in the paper election so a fair bit was a spectacular success so you talk to paul you end up with 57 seats in the dial but it could have been 45 if you put up enough candidates as a suspicion that you my of missed the boat and the all parties feel for him for the gale still the show of you if you lost a great opportunity to lead the government in the doyle. I dont think weve lost an opportunity but i think there was nobody i dare in the Political Parties or indeed in the media who saw the kind of dramatic swing that took place during the Election Campaign theres always going to be another election and you know that alex as well as i do and whats interesting is the opinion polls since the general election have showed consolidating those gains and in fact in some cases increasing up to about 27 percent so if and when theres another election well be ready to fight in every single constituency to maximize our vote and in the meantime were going to hold this ramshackle government at to account by being the most effective party of opposition the state has ever seen for that to ramshackle government as you put it as well capable of stealing your claws though your book comes social hosting and public hosting was very well received last year but do you think for the foil and for the giro and they did with the the green party and there as well will will read the loons and say we better take up some of these ideas on Public Housing in dublin a particular do you think theres a danger the you face that the new government will say these popular policies assured fan of exactly the sort of thing we should be doing. Well 1st of all if if this government decided to adoptions a policy id be very pleased because at least would mean issues that for a long time have left many working people behind and Housing Health childcare pensions etc would be resolved so id have no difficulty with that but in fact what weve seen with the new programme for government and also with the legislation in the 1st 4 weeks of this government is they have no intention of following our policies i mean weve just come from a vote for example in in the temp report of a tear in the Convention Center are on the referral if he and the government has just ended crucial protection for renters we had a ban on a vixens rent increases a notice to quit as part of covert 19 that is now effectively gone and in its place is very limited protections for small numbers of renters likewise for example in Affordable Housing and social housing there is no indication government is going to meet the level of investment thats required to tackle those problems and again on key issues like the right to retire with a state pension at 65. 00 had genuinely affordable child care a single tear national Health Service nothing in the programme for government suggested the big movement on any of that and crucially made a mark and hes our new t. Shock as he leads sort of all the selfproclaimed Republican Party is saying that we cant have a referendum on irish unity in the lifetime of this government so i have to say if your question is im like fearful that our policy clothes will be stolen by this government the very opposite its more of the same failed center right finagle policy weve had for the last 4 years unfortunately its like both for the fall of the green party are bookselling under the weight of that center right party. To him last week he said lou weve been talking about reunification of 100 years but the spadework the detailed work hasnt been done in a situation where that work can still to be done in the to show the right to not to talk about a board the poor when the in the near future do you have to do the work force. Well the 1st thing is is the 2 arent mutually exclusive and mean its quite an admission of failure at that bertie ahern who led 3 successive governments here at mits and of course he writes that when he was leader he didnt do that spade or cold be a teammate a very important contribution to the 1980 degree mint and subsequent base but what we need from the government now whether its a go for defeat a full of shit again or a government a chance and in others its to start putting in place the Building Blocks that would allow that referendum to take place keep in mind it doesnt want to have a referendum that we would lose we want to make sure that all of the research all of the data and all of the dialogue thats all necessary formal dialogue at a Party Political level but also the Community Grassroots dialogue thats equally as important that all of that happens so. By ourselves its not something we can do on our own to something we want to do in partnership with all sections of political and Civil Society opinion on the island that believe irish unification is the right thing for all of our peoples but you have to do the work and the work needs to start now and i think if we continue to do what weve done to date its not only express dissatisfaction with the failure of Government Policies but also show people theres a better way we can have a Public Housing system with genuine Affordable Homes for working people we can have affordable childcare we can have a single tear national Health Service where people get treated on the basis of medical need not ability to pay and we can have a peaceful and democratic and respectful transition to profound constitutional change from unification i think all of those things will grow and i think this is a really exciting time to be in irish politics norton science and research exciting time of course to be a member of shin saying so lots of opportunities ahead but equally lots and lots of important work for us to get right one of run from the m thank you so much for joining me im alex aman show thank you very much. I know one passionately represents the concept of global ireland better the new lord mayor of dublin hazel hsu she was the 1st irish born person of chinese descent elected to Political Office in the public and represents the 3rd party in the new Coalition Government the green party the lord mayor welcome to the i like simon show welcome by everyone so you have the 300 and 52nd lord mayor of dublin the other Major Development and green politics in ireland apart from your election as lord mayor as the partys gone into the new Coalition Government with 12 t. D. s the call isnt infinite far and feel a gale is that going to be a comfortable experience for a radical green party to be in a a coalition of 2 parties which havent always been known for the the radicalism either of them well i mean the words like the more awkward position i am the chair are partially actually. I can tell you comfortable no absolutely not but i dont think politics should be comfortable and not much about those and we all know that no ones under any illusions that i dont think they are to each other and apple naturally because they were always the. 2 up with the civil war or what. But everyone goes to Work Together and in these pundit me times thats whats needed all the people of the community so it should be needed up to posses and politicians and thats what we have to do and i do think we will deliver i change we have to work very hard for that change there will be plenty of sacrifices by all but there will also be plenty of things that we can achieve expression when it comes to rowing back home a change mode you of the the 1st woman of color to be elected lord mayor of of dublin the the meat it pass. Levite covers the 1st openly gay person to assume the office of of tisha these signs of the increasing cost more politan nature of irish politics is obvious the personification of the the concept of global ireland which is been unseated by the new administration at cosmopolitan doug actually a great word very young ha ha thats what could be well read a bit more so i think its good to see and i think the better worded openly i am dead 1st person of color in a rolled out its 352 year struggle so theres a 300 if it were you know if it were me that wasnt. Anyone of color id get 90 the mellower mare and. Tree her out for she treats that white men and it is what we need to look at it is good that i am different but i cant be the last lot men of our contempt to europe after all was as chair of the party was going to be the template on which we should judge the green partys 1st experience of the new experience of of such an influential role in the Coalition Government so they are definitely through with it because thats what we negotiated with in that programme for government the general is that we must. Climate change but not a cost of social justice we need to make sure that we secure housing we need to make sure that we adjust transition for all and we need to ensure that we have a economy that doesnt involve massive spending cuts in year 3 or 4 so that we can change you as it is to get through the worst of times right now. For the for for the giro. Old hands and the door lets call them out to the mill martin. The various parties lots of experience of government. How are you going to keep your eye on free to forward for the guilt at the start when pulling fast ones on you thats always a risk being a Smaller Party i think we know that the Smaller Party you can always sometimes d get not sometimes always kept alive when in government and make no mistake if there are issues we will be challenging them if there is anything going against our policy or any and affecting the overall most final goal and its a cost that we will be walking when we think that this is no longer good for the public love mans best wishes for your term of office and thank you so much for joining me m l examine chill and. Join us after the break while we continue the discussion with the doyenne of irish political commentators eamon molly lets see that. Every crisis in america has been packaged as a bond and sold into the junk bond market with a longer maturity at a slightly lower coupon rate and theyve been doing this now for 40 years to the point where americas indebtedness says. They engineered to the point of an extinction event as have many countries as the global. U. S. Secretary of state mike ok ok is on a mission he claims the world must change china or china will change just how should we interpret this the cold war to be waged against me this is also implying force regime change china is certainly a major global competitor but is it now. A dog industry comes to life in los angeles every night. Dozens of women sells the bodies on the streets many of them underage. Los Angeles Police reveal a taste of the daily challenge if youre going to exploit for a child here in los angeles they were going to come out you see officers going undercover as 6 workers and customers to fight 6 trade. Welcome back 50 years of troubles in the north of ireland even molly was a constant voice of reason commentry how does he assess the dramatic developments in the landscape of 5 ish politics in mali welcome. Thank you very much indeed. I want to stop by take a look at the politics and that and the so for him and this why i thought dramatic coalition between the the old civil war rivals for the foil and finn and gale changing the landscape of of politics in the dial you look at there says more permanent feature even leading as some suggested to our manager in the region do you think this is a realignment of politics in the republic. It is quite a Remarkable Development but the 2 big parties are say traditional parties in a foreign city give it where it is lockstep on the whole rex it issue so it was said in a marriage of convenience already there and then they began did not get the result one might have expected a guess the backdrop of the performance and the handling of rexs and at the end of the day in a forest in the ghettos did the unthinkable that turn the clock back and did it decided to go with the government with the help of the greens is quite quite remarkable and whats even more remarkable is that leader of a rather good the tarnished with former t. Shirt and leader of city is a little bit 20 points over each finds ahead of me on martin the ciszek in the kernel pose so what does that tell you about their polling its extraordinary they want to live very ill go is so popular now he could walk on water because of his handling of the who covered 1000 business surely after 100 years of the civil war and division in politics and in the door has no been changed that must be a matter of long term significance where i say it you know it we all change with the passing of time young generations they change everything and we should loose sight of that so the hurts of the civil war its a long time ago and people are seeing that were somewhat different enough thank god i said. Youre said the 2 parties in lock step and their opposition to to brechts it and theyre also in lockstep in their attitude to the constitution as an island for for a cautious approach so was so collective sigh of relief and there and nor now this union or some other me home after nearly a vodka the old fart in west palm that are still in charge. No no no no alex you dont ever find a sigh of relief within your uterus of unionism is always goes back to the war its always living in dread and fear this very day theres a bill going through that part of the lives at the moment which is giving more car back to the individual minister as acoustic collectivism as a result of corpus and unionism is in arms today the seal that theyre the big dimity show you news of this town certainly with its back to the wall and very it takes an awful lot to comfort them sue knows whats going to happen down the line but there was a lot of are still of the here to live around go over briggs it he was sick he was seen as is the devil in disguise you know mr nice none. Of the rag but they really really didnt like him at all the irony is they might have more empathy and sympathy with me on martin they could feed a soul leader is there not and in terms of the handling of of covert where generally speaking the subpoena and regular praiseful of the Irish Government and indeed the the instance of of the pandemic is much less in the north for violent than the in in the u. K. Particular men with a sad changing attitudes to politics and this demonstration the problem seems to have largely succeeded in controlling the violence where more london seems to be struggling. Well you know it it depends on what you call success success personally i think that theres been the absolute at the cation of responsibility by those in charge when it comes to care homes and 60 plus one percent of all people who died as a result of covert diabate in care homes in Northern Ireland and that hurts me death hurts me deeply to think that somebody of my generation not so sure what it is you are but i mean i fit the 70 mark now so people like me who would be considered disposable d and there are all the all the eggs really in the basket there those eggs were all put in the n. H. S. Hospital and who people in the care homes they were just left blowing in the wind and thats why we have 50 plus one percent of all who died in all the non dating joe who if you have a brother it occurred home or a mother are a granny and then were not alone do they die alone but then you couldnt even go to syria many its so theres a lot of hurt remaining here and when they when the inquiry and the quests and all the rest 6 place i think there are a few capable of a lot of questions for which the answer when it comes to that end of the day when i question back to him about the attitude to reunification one of the points he made was that despite talking about it for a century and fighting about it for quite a bit of the century he said that vent a little for the ground work the real detail granular groundwork that would have to be done in the preparations that would have to be made to even put the question very little thought he argued had been completed its not a fair point or not. No i think that i think thats a very prudent approach i think its very sense folks and its not the 1st time ive heard that argument prosecuted if that very senior retired former irish Civil Servant one of those gritty of men ive ever met and he said the same thing to me he said the best friends and i didnt and in britain should be sitting down there retired Civil Servants judges and all these people of high intellect theyre the people who should be sitting down now and engaging in what you call that ran you know detail to look at that the various situations which might arise to all of the 8 a recurrence of violence here because that is that we gauge it you could get out of your border code and you could have at majority in that border code but what have you gained if you replace the i really wouldnt loyalist i writ what if we gave if loyalism will take up the guns then and well be back to where we were for 30 years so if any constitutional change is if it please i think it has to be very very clear fairly planned discussed and understood and you have to bring leading all kenyan from within unionism into that conversation you cannot hoover their heads and realize their constitutional challenge because i think that there the downside of that will be largest and that must be obviated and or costs. In mali i know i happen to know that youre busy writing your toboggan for me at the present moment and im sure it is going to be read a little part in full of Amazing Stories from your journalistic career when as one does in these occasions you turn your mind to the future of props and the concluding chapter of the autobiography what sort of a vent are you going to forecast what developments. You for c. And they and that i am of the file and have an offer file and in particular well in essence this firesign concerns i have lived under the socalled union i have lived in dublin as as a student for 5 years ive no flag ever set me in the worst offenders words of john hume you cant eat a flag and im just grateful having lived through the horror of the violence alex and i saw the man or saw all my socks so much you have no idea i was there i saw the bodies being pulled out that was commonplace and it to my eyes for so many years so i would i dont want any situation arising which would in danger the peace which were enjoying now its just very hard to take in the house where we are today comparable to where we were 20 years ago 25 years 30 years ago and it and i have to say i bear no grudge against you because you need to see and i know you would be able quite friendly but. In the nationalist cause Catholic Community he was a hit figure for so many years but he did the right thing at the end of the day and thats all i want from people do the right thing do the decent but my in essence about the future if we dont get to know each other and i mean how does this catholics nationals unionists theres no solution to getting to know each other a griffon of mine a promoter jim if i can east always say to me was my children my worst image i lament so much that i havent got the facility at the subtlety you have for crossing the divide when he was of another generation people didnt cross the divide my generation urged children they went to consciousness to school we crossed the line and my my sons friends come from all sides of the community here and those are thats a new generation and i just hope that they get on with working together and let the politics look out theres such down the line even molly diane of not on our externalism thank you so much for joining me im alex salmond show. Thank you very much you know its it thank you very much. Under the cover of covert and but exit a quiet Political Revolution has taken place in the doyle the 2 great parties of state and deadly rivals for the same chile im now in coalition which some say could even pave the way to america that agreement is given stability by the presence of the greens particularly necessary a sense of the damage has boosted the ratings of feel a gale at the expense of fin a foil the coalition will face tough choices and the challenges of the postponed demick and post bracks age have a splinter of experience and ballasts in the new government and the greens may provide that touch on radicalism which are restless electorate were clearly setting for them here this year the new government has already signaled its policy is prioritizing recovery doubling down on the concept of a global island and a cautious building towards the share of the island rather than forcing the pace to a United Ireland have a shin fein and also well placed to take advantage as a no on rival party of opposition one say they select emerges from the covert in juice political hibernation they want to see more vigor on social economic and constitutional politics and know from ties to myself and all the show its goodbye from no stay safe well see again next week. U. S. Secretary of state might someday oh yes on a mission claims the world must change china are trying to change us oh should we interpret this the cold war to be waged against meeting business also implying regime change china is certainly a major global competitor but is it now or in. The sudden fullest and illegal takeover of a government by a small group. Rather than revolutionaries or soldiers could that small group of the corporations when you have a tiny group of people who have all the power you have to have some means to make sure the rest of us dont get together and take it back. These are sacrifice some. Places that capitalism exploited and destroyed for profit and left behind misery poverty environmental devastation and so you see things like Voter Suppression building more prisons you seem gerrymandering all sorts of undemocratic practices for wealth use of that world were well into for this world and theres no question that the. Same wrong. Rowles just dont hold. Any new world that is yet to shape out disdain to come to advocate and in again from an equal the trail. When so many find themselves worlds apart. Just to look for common ground. Israel media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation full community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. Direct. What is truth what is faith. In a world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or inmate in the shallowness. Welcome to our viewers and from around the world live from Central London this is all to u. K. Englands code 19 excess death rate is revealed to be the worst in europe as doctors warned the u. K. Isnt prepared for a 2nd wave ill be joined by one of those Public Health experts shortly. Some calls for a delay to the next us president ial election should draw for november claiming the postal voting will lead to fraud. So its set to receive millions in government funding to look into why people from ethnic minority backgrounds appear to have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic. So the british politicians called for a Food Security minister after the shortages and panic buying seen during the pandemic. England has experienced the highest number of excess deaths during the coronavirus pandemic across the whole of europe thats a scientist revealed that transmission is rising amid concerns the government has still not done enough to prevent the 2nd wave or take a shot it was dashed he has all the latest for us here in the studio so shout it we are officially the worst absolutely and put it this way really the public were sort of getting used to the semblance of new normality in some ways almost forgetting we are in the middle of a pandemic but the latest figures show and they bring a shock to the system as the office for National Statistics have revealed that england is now the west in europe for excess deaths now the data shows that anyone had the longest continuous period of excess mortality in the fast of 2020 as well as also having the 2nd highest peak compared to its european counterparts now all of this comes. A group of scientists at Cambridge University have said that the reproduction rate is rising in some parts of the country its even above one now theyve long been warning that anything above one will lead to another spike and the Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now striking a pretty cautious tone warning that the virus is still very much out there. Were looking at a resurgence of the virus in some other European Countries you can see whats been happening in the United States and so it is absolutely vital as a country that we continue to keep our focus and discipline and that we dont delude ourselves that somehow were out of the woods or that this is all over because it isnt all over now this comes as the British Medical Association is now warning of a 2nd wave or 2nd peak of the corona virus now obviously the government has long been criticized for its easing of the lockdown measures next week well be looking into seeing the government driving people to try and get back out into the restaurants yet again also shielding will be poor so theres been much criticism over the way the government has been handling and approaching the covert 1000. 00 pound demick plus from the very get go the government has been criticized for being slow to stop the virus from being imported haphazard approaches to social distancing and mixed messages when it comes to mosques and according to the British Medical Association they do feel the 2nd wave is just around the corner but we have at the moment it is not very minute were not doing everything we should in china in trying to contain the virus or if i look even something as simple as. Saying. That social distancing is still 2 meters or want me to plus i dont think anyone in the any member of the public understands what makes up just means what trust me. Well with all of that said the brakes do seem to be being applied at this point in time because the governments policy has now changed to isolating from 7 days has now been up to 10 days thats because there was fears that the virus could be much more contagious then we faster thought it almost feels like the government is gearing up for this 2nd wave of the virus and this is now a precautionary measure to try and mitigate the consequences that may come around the corner now the Health Secretary matthau kaka said of course winter is approaching and that is a really fast help ground for the coronavirus to spread very urgent reason why we cant go back which is winter there why deliver this on a hot summers day we know for sure that winter is coming unusually cold weather or more strain of flu would put real stress on the system theres still a lot we dont know about cope with 19 from the Long Term Health impact on those recovery so how it interacts with the cold and although we work in hopes that a vaccine will appear we may have to live with covidien for some time to come. Well that comes as academics from sheffield and left for university based on the ins figures have claimed that there were 21000. 00 fatalities due to lockdown measures now that includes significant unintended consequences such as a lack of access to Critical Health care and the collapse in any attendance is so really breaking that down thats around 2700 people every single week so all in all the data does not look very good right now but its exactly as the experts expected really because they predicted that we would see the coronavirus coming after us wave after wave or as johnson said no manatee by christmas it really feels like its certainly not this year potentially next shadier thank you very much indeed for that we know it is British Medical Association member and Public Health expert professor good to run to our. Good to see you then the beer maze warning that the government is still not doing enough. Yes i think these figures published today do show that weve got significant room for improvement and i think the key challenges there was we will understand the need to reopen the economy we also need to focus on Public Protection and thats only going to happen with far more assertive in the way we give out publicly of messages to all of britains society and at the moment weve seen for example a stepping back of the government of that tele broadcast so in a sense the Public Accounting feel like relaxed and maybe too relaxed coronavirus a mind suggestion would be a is that as a band minima we should be doing our early coronavirus forecasts not all our Weather Reports we should be having hourly coronavirus for the show mark of the u. K. And showing where the hot spots are and what that will enable the government to do is want to remember the coronavirus is still around and to most importantly will enable them to make informed decisions about where they want to go out and when they want and this is all about telling the public what to do with them but theres seems to be a lack of clarity in the sitting and move confusion about rules or laws and social distancing so what do you make of messaging and what should the messaging big. I think messaging me in all of the messaging to be effective it has to be consistent it has to be regular so as i said you know a lot of the messaging is now disappeared from Media Outlets because we became too dependent on certain politicians daily briefings and i think you know i would in all your good outlet for example maybe to be a pioneer in this you know trying pioneering and now recurring a virus sort of Weather Forecast great idea but how do we can we make the public really Pay Attention to this is an element of complacency is that we do have compulsory mosques now in shops a lot of public transport and of course one meter plus distancing but from my experience not many people are actually bearing any of that. No i dont think they are a must because the mix messaging so as you already heard you going to hear a lot more about the eat out about just being about going on staycation so in a sense the mixed messages on the one hand go out and enjoy it but as you seen from the date weve got our Summer Access at across europe so weve got to make sure the public are protected which is why i think you know. With all due respect the media can help and you can produce the sort of using the office for National Statistics interrupted maher is needed to produce a sort of a litany of a Weather Report for coronavirus were really saying a 2nd wave possibly coming or just the 1st wave continuing well is the 1st continuing im afraid were not at the end of that were still seeing a tragic number of deaths every day and those lives you know could potentially be saved if we can be far more confident. In telling the public weve got to take coronavirus really seriously im especially in the hot spots there are many of them are our country well and you talk about hot spots then so should we carry on with this idea of localized lockdowns when we or perhaps contemplating the idea of a 2nd wave or disperse wave in getting worse all we not prepared to deal with this all perhaps we could be facing another national lockdown. Oh thats the irony in all Public Health Pandemic Management local lock downs are normal and thats the irony in the u. K. Because we didnt follow standard Public Health and i meant management processes we ended up starting off with a national law lockdown because we didnt invest in Community Testing had we done we were started of back in march with this series of local laws that would have caught us as the public used to know. And then all they wouldnt be this there is now of having a local law. And thats what you would see there across the country will be success all south Korea Germany etc its been no use local law has been so effective right all health under nick management but just last year one quick question. What are your hopes for a vaccine being introduced quite soon or my house at the same as everybody elses i hope we can produce about things but i think youve got to look at history but seem to take a long time to develop which means all of the moment there is no substitute weve got to keep informing the public about the seriousness of coronavirus and making sure that people take protective measures well thanks for your efforts in giving information to the public here all our channel thank you very much indeed professor gurche randhawa and you. Well to discuss the mortality rate in the u. K. In those 21000 locked down death not due to the virus ill be joined by the former head of health and then assess of the office for National Statistics in atlanta. U. S. President donald trump a suggested delaying the novembers president ial election on his kind of more open joins me now live from new york so ok on to the small what is being said about this well donald trump and you supporters have long been raising concerns about mail in voting but the tweet that we have just seen from the president of United States is certainly startling many people on the tweet reads with universal mail in voting 2020 will be the most inaccurate in all capital letters and fraudulent in all capital letters election in history it will be a great embarrassment to the usa but people are most concerned about the final sentence of the tweet which reads the delay delay the election until people can vote properly securely and say people can properly securely and safely vote followed by 3 question marks that has gotten many people raising their eyebrows now donald trump has in the past pointed to the fact that a mail in ballots in new jersey now were discarded that thousands of them were thrown into the garbage and raised concerns about do the fact that there is the pandemic going on across the United States many people intend to load in the november election over the mail and many have feared that this could result in the throwing away and absentee voting and the lack of voting on the part of thousands of people their votes could be discarded in the mail and this could lead to Election Fraud now whats interesting is the Democratic Party has also raised their concerns not about mail in voting but about Voter Suppression in states like georgia and elsewhere they worry that there could be an attempt to. Prevent prevent voter turnout and in favor of the republicans so we have both sides the democrats and the republicans expressing concerns about the legitimacy of the upcoming election now what is interesting though is that final section of Donald Trumps leak where he is raising the possibility of delaying the elections raises all kinds of constitutional concerns because there is no you know mechanism for the president to delay the elections theres no mechanism for congress to delay the elections how exactly the elections would be delayed if anyone the president or congress felt that was necessary is really unclear at this point the elections are scheduled for november and there doesnt seem to be a mechanism for delaying or changing the election date so many people are quite concerned about the implications of the tweet some supporters of donald trump are pointing out that it does and with question marks its not announcing a delay of the elections it simply floating the idea but many people are concerned as there are rising tensions and both democrats and republicans are expressing fear about how legitimate the election outcome will be democrats are raising concerns about Voter Suppression republicans are raising concerns about voter fraud due to mail and voting many people are quite unsure about how fair the elections will be in this november and theres already quite a bit of unrest in the United States in recent months so a lot of a lot of alarm in response to Donald Trumps recent tweets kind of thank you for that update now and still to come this couple just multimillion studies into what they can or think its on display fortunately in fact employed could. You cannot be both with the yeah you want. The world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. Who dares thinks. We dare to ask. Every crisis in america has been packaged as a bond and sold into the junk bond market with a longer maturity at a slightly lower coupon right and theyve been doing this now for 40 years to the point where americas indebtedness says spend they engineered to the point of an extinction event as have many countries as has the global. Scientists are to receive millions in British Government funding to look into why people from ethnic minority backgrounds appear to have been disproportionately affected by coronavirus or education and he joins me live now in the studio casar what do you know about the impact on ethnic minority communities what weve long been seeing since the beginning of the pandemic is a link between people from ethnic minority backgrounds and perhaps high instances of catching covert 19 deaths from covert 19 and as a result the government have committed to investigating and trying to get to the bottom of exactly why this is appearing to take place they are putting aside 4300000 pounds to go to scientists for 6 different studies to try to see if there is a link and if so why that link exists but we can have a look at what some of those reasonings behind why perhaps i think minorities are the most impacted by it it could be their occupation so some of them doing jobs in social care and health care taxi driver so in contact with a lot of people also perhaps coming from deprived backgrounds poor backgrounds cramped housing and also Underlying Health conditions now all of this comes as weve seen a study by the royal older hospital which shows that south asian patients in oldham are 31 years younger on average than the white counterparts that theyve been seeing we can also see that the black inpatient at the royal the hospital are around 20 years younger than their white counterparts but regardless of ethnicity they are the gods are in a city to say of the people in that study come from the most deprived areas. In the Greater Manchester area now that study was taken in oldham its look its looking like oldham is one of the towns which is experiencing a rise in numbers again quite a sharp spike and for that reason the doctors there are concerned especially with the fact that some of those patients coming in are so young could this mean a change in the nature of the virus or is there something that needs to be looked into and thats why that 4300000 pounds in funding for those studies could help to get to the bottom of this. Thank you for that for more on all of this whole big getting reaction from a professor involved in 3 of the upcoming studies into the impact on the bain community here in this country that will be later here in r. T. The United States is slashing its military presence in germany withdrawing or redeploying nearly 12000. 00 personnel as part of a long running dispute donald trump has with berlin claiming its not paying enough into the nato military alliance 1 with a slip of the tongue by the us defense secretary did raise a few eyebrows. Ive said very privately to my counterparts as well about the importance of nato any alliance sharing the burden so we can all deter russia and avoid peace in the board. Well 1000 american troops will be leaving germany 6400. 00 of those will be returning to the United States 5400. 00 will be redeployed elsewhere around Europe Donald trump the us president has called germany delinquent in the past over it stiffened spending they seems to have been the trigger that prompted this troop withdrawal. Lets be clear i think germany is the wealthiest country in Europe Germany can and should pay more to its defense it should certainly meet the 2 percent standard and i would argue go above and beyond that the number of troops to be withdrawn is high yet the 9000. 00 that was quoted by the us president earlier this month the minister president of bavaria market zada a man whos also taped as a potential replacement for angle of merkel when she steps down from Office Next Year has said that this move will wont damage german u. S. Relations the u. S. Governments decision was very regrettable use of stream in the u. S. Human relations its not clear what the game is from moods or standpoint. Of the us itself in the long room but its also prompted a lot of domestic politicking in the United States democratic senator from new jersey bob menendez has said that champagne would be popping in the kremlin this news thats despite the reality that moscows less than happy it this it will almost certainly mean that u. S. Troops will be stationed in poland right on russias borders what weve heard from the foreign minister of the child. Here in berlin is that donald trump being voted out of office in november wont automatically fix things in the relationship between germany and the United States but those problems go much deeper we grew up in the certain knowledge that the United States wanted to be a world power should the u. S. Now wish to draw from that role of the sale of oil would have to reflect on that very deeply everyone who thinks everything in Transatlantic Partnership will be as it once was with a democratic president underestimates the structural changes there you go the United States to withdraw almost 12000. 00 troops from germany and what would be so any one of the biggest shakeups in nato since the cold war is donald trump continues his policy certainly seems like a policy anyway of how to lose friends and alienate people diplomatically. It was purple bosses in big tech have had a dressing down from u. S. Lawmakers over that market power and claims of political censorship heads of Facebook Google and apple faced congress and so too did the worlds richest man and was in boss jeff bezos who made his 1st appearance big tex out to get conservatives thats not a suspicion thats not a hunch thats a fact single moms new families album with than a stint in the prices were driven up by the fact that youve eliminated your main competitor why dont the free record really respect those who thought. Amazons dual role as a platform operator and competing seller on that platform is fundamentally anti competitive and Congress Must take action but messenger whats out instagram are the most now downloaded apps of the last decade your company sir owns them all and we have a word for that that word is monopoly i believe it is in fact your company that is engaging in the election interference. Those monopoly concerns are largely thanks to the fact that the combined market value of the tech world big 4 is greater than the entire German Economy plus with political advertising regulations increasingly in place its claimed the social media giants play a crucial role in elections. British politicians are calling for the government to appoint a minister for Food Security after the covert 19 pandemic led to shortages and panic buying the Environment Food and Rural Affairs select committees a 6600000 people face Food Insecurity including 1700000. 00 children it was a 2nd wave and a disorderly breaks it will only add to that number of modern andries looks into how its taken a pandemic for us to wake up to the real risks facing the Food Supply Chain price surges in crashes are commonplace on the stock markets while panic buying is usually restricted to black friday or the january sales but the covert 19. 00 pandemic has produced something similar for far more stable staples changes in Consumer Habits largely thanks to the lock down have meant sharp swings in demand paster bread dairy as well as king gradients like eggs flour and sugar was stripped from the supermarket shelves as family stockpiled unsure of what lockdown really meant for their weekly shop and the way people act it was rubbish and it created a lot of waste people were saying you know we. People here are not a sight of supermarkets leaving with bags of loo roll and when i say 34 times what they needed or what they thought i needed at the time that. Drives you know fears that theyre going to run out of bread arms and so on turns of this words are being thrown away especially you know what were they waiting to you know i think they obviously great i suggest. Visiting exception but you know getting the flour in the past. That actually what they were going to do was much baking as well they thought they were not they went to expect cake baking as they thought they were. Folks that were also issues with excess supply and for those dealing in perishable goods the situation quite literally stank. We got into such a desperate position that the cheese we had over 50000. 00 pounds of cheese we were going to throw away so it was far better to try and discount it to get some of the money back cheese became an unexpected volatile commodity families in lock down basic cheddar for instance experience high demand leading to shortages but with restaurants and hotels closed and now only beginning to get back to normal supplies of high end artisan products found themselves with tons going moldy the u. K. Wasnt alone prices of dairy and wheat wildly on the Global Markets too and combined with other lock downs the country was at the mercy of the rest of the world when its really went down so to speak lumber day. Here monterey. You couldnt get to be the chief. Out of its region and it all stopped suddenly so we had we had a hiatus for about 3 weeks where we had to rethink what we were getting from which region that could come into our depo. And it was very worrying even now as the u. K. Reopens there are still worries that a future return to lock down could devastate produces again unless businesses are prepared if we start to see things creeping up the least we know what happened the 1st time around so we can potentially you know reduce our of the what we make which would at least be some you know if we dont make cheezy its not going to be as big a loss if we make it not sell it but having said that i think we as a nation are now obviously a lot more wary of whats going on we were in at the beginning the cave in 1000. 00 pandemic has certainly highlighted the fragility of those supply chains for luxuries and even the citys many take for granted and with the 2nd wave predicted as well as disruption at the end of the year even with an e. U. Trade deal it also means consumers might have to get used to not having everything on a plate lot of andrews are to u. K. Suffolk. Thats all for now well have more for you in the house in a. Bank. On your. On your. L. 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