A mosque but this is not right from the turkish because they have the your churches to pray to. Also a u. S. Ban on the fictions during the pandemic expires despite the soaring infection rate. Were looking at just about the sins of thousands of families in households facing homelessness many for the 1st time in their lives in there has been a response in chimes of how we will try to. Back the people feasting i think shes. Very good morning to you thanks for joining us here on r. T. And. First this hour the feud between the worlds 2 largest economies china and the United States is ratcheting up in a cold war style standoff less than an hour after chinese officials left their consulate in houston following trumps orders to close the facility american author it is an official forcibly entering the building there was cordoned off a group of men were spotted trying to break into the facility using tools where they managed to enter officials were seen trying 3 separate entrances but without success cleaners were seen taking out the rubbish at the u. S. Consulate general in the chinese city of chengdu beijing has told america to fake it. Those promises in a tit for tat measure. And all comes as a chinese researcher is arrested by u. S. Authorities in beijing sconce alyson some francisco shes accused of allegedly hiding her military affiliations during her visa application shes one of 4 visiting researches youve recently been accused of visa fraud beijing strongly condemns the crackdown urging the u. S. To stop harassing Chinese Students and research its arties done quarter looks at the recent escalation of tensions between the 2 foes and the latest cold war style rhetoric coming from americas sect of state. Since the 1970 s. U. S. Foreign policy has used more honey than vinegar and its dealings with beijing china has definitely changed as a result but not exactly the way washington wanted it to you know the world was much different than we imagine think you shouldnt which and it would produce a future with bright promise of comedy and cooperation. But today today were all still Wearing Masks and watching the pandemics body count rise because the c. C. P. Failed in its promises to the world. Were reading every morning new headlines of repression in hong kong and were watching a Chinese Military the grow stronger and stronger and indeed more menacing that if we want to have a free 21st century and not the chinese century of which dreams. The old paradigm of blinding gauge with china simply wont get it done pompei of speech seems to have a lot in common with that of Winston Churchills when he declared an iron curtain had descended across europe dividing it into soviet and western spheres it was the beginning of the cold war and with pump ails us against them rhetoric another cold war between the u. S. And china may be brewing this isnt about containment dont buy that. Its about a complex new challenge that weve never faced before. The u. S. S. R. Was closed off from the free world communist china is already within our borders washingtons hostile stance is no doubt part of a recent pitfall in sino u. S. Relations while waistband in the u. S. Accusations of tech that disputes in the South China Sea its all reminding experts of a warning former president Richard Nixon made decades ago we must cultivate jointed during the next few decades want it is learning to develop its National Strength and potential otherwise we will one day be confronted with the most of the middle enemy that has ever existed in the history of the world unfortunately for washington nixon was right when he was president china. Still an economically backwards country with its eyes on Rapid Development fast forward to the present and the communist parties accomplished much of what it set out to do its lifted millions out of abject poverty it led the country to what looks like a quick recovery from the cove in 1000 pandemic and it doesnt seem willing to stop in the face of washington statements. Remarks which ignore facts in darfur of ideological bias and cold woman tells you are a hodgepodge of political lies intensively made recently by senior u. S. Officials accusations of human rights abuses authoritarian name calling pompei was even labeled chinas system a new tyranny does all sound a bit crusading but then again its not anything new in americas Foreign Policy playbook the tree of tyranny in this hemisphere cuba venezuela and nicaragua has finally met its match pressers regimes an ideology the forces of oppression to tallaght terror an ism and domination while despite the trumpet ministrations best efforts the socalled troika of tyranny is still around even where u. S. Backed regime change was successful its still no walk in the park in iraq the government is basically powerless to combat militias that see it as a us puppet and in countries where the u. S. Failed like venezuela its a huge waste of taxpayer money china though is a lot more powerful and with u. S. Allies unwilling to get behind this new strategy paul might need to rethink his approach. Angry protests across greece of full of the reopening of highest fear as a mosque yesterday the form of museum held its 1st muslim prayers for almost 90 years in tests of the new key orthodox protesters burned turkish blanks demonstrators the moment on the countrys come to that chanted and interests logans condemning the reconversion is what some of them had to say. This is a totally barbaric and on civilized. Turning highest of fear into a mosque is nice erick goes against all our to the exit people this is not right from the turkish because they have been your churches to create a dear god. Fridays muslim prayers to crowds of worshippers who filled the nearby square his president richard typepad well was also in attendance surrounded by senior officials the turkish leader participated in the service and we cited verses from the quran he then expressed his delight at the reconversion. To live in them. This is been a yearning since our youth we used to say let the chains break in high as the fear open as a mosque weve ended an 86 year period high as the fear has now returned to its essence it was a mosque and its a mosque a game. Theres been some back and forth in the history of severe originally it was built by the roman empire as a cathedral then it became a mosque after the ottoman conquest in 135 it was converted in to a museum but earlier this month he transformed it back into a mosque. Ok and he joined on the line now by the former greek ambassador to canada the in a discreet on topless welcome this weve seen angry protests so its pretty clear emotions are high at this reconversion even turkish flags being burned just how far do you think this is going to go. Well its its quite serious i would say 1st of all this is. An affront to their Cultural Heritage of humanity what the han did and its not the 1st time we must remember that during that they had once put into the parthenon into a into a into a mosque during the time of the ottoman empire. And its and today we had a big big reaction from from ankara that considers us living in the in the past that we are we have a racist way of thinking which i find not a very nice thing to save his every greece and that the thing is that turkey is behaving its like if we were in 1453 and not today in the 21st century another very important issue about this is that we must not forget that turkey and spain founded the alliance of civilizations at the United Nations one of the aims of this alliance of civilizations was to defuse tensions between the west and the islamic world so i think that this alliance of civilization which is a United Nations initiative should be shouldnt actually fall apart it has no use anymore and we see how arab the honeys is is taking back its promises to promote good relations between islam and the western world so i think that this is something that the u. N. United nations General Assembly should deal with and do away with with this initiative that no longer has any. Has any sense but the situation is getting worse because there is also a big problem of greek turkish relations concerning that. The agent seen and turkey is now on the verge of making states says mick researches on the greek territorial on the greek Continental Shelf and this may lead to an Armed Conflict in the next few days this is an issue that has not been defused yet in spite of interventions by the german presidency of the of the e. U. So when we are living in a very difficult time in this part of the world and i hope at the end that peace may prevail given those tensions that you just talked about and the issue of Border Control between the countries. Which you until we construe this move by president to reconvert Something Back from what was you know just a museum it was secular back to a mosque was it almost an antagonistic maybe most of know what he was doing that it was going to further and flare problems between the countries. Well i think that he was doing it out maybe also for internal reasons because his popularity is dropping now in that turkey because of the economic crisis there are many people that dont have the means to finance their their their living so and also my pressured is that he is trying to put down. That work with the founder of modern turkey because it is the 1st time it is the 1st time that the cream signed by at that or as president of the turkish republic has been cancelled has been has been declared null and void so this is an attack also against the demolished regime in turkey so basically its an its an internal problem that has international ramifications. Theres been quite strong condemnation coming from western leaders on this may do you think the one chasm we share in the past is quite happy to upset the fellow nato members does he really care if people condemn him i dont i dont think that he cares anything about statements being done the only thing that she might care would be if concrete measures were taken like the e. U. Taking sanctions against against turkey who are. Violating. For violating International Law and violating the tariff tauriel integrity of 2 of its Member States which is greece and cyprus we must not forget that the e. U. Has taken sanctions against russia for reasons much less. Buy and which which i personally dont dont agree with them and yet it refuses for the moment to think sanctions against turkey and thats the only language that their language understand. Many thanks to my guests this hour Leonidas Christiane populous former greek ambassador to canada thanks so much going. To need to england now Face Coverings are mandatory as of now in all public spaces this however has raised the question of who should be monitoring compliance with that some shop owners are saying that they will not force the new rule u. K. Correspondent isa explains. Provide a its now mandatory for people in england to wear a face mask when they go to shop the supermarket so they go to pick up a delivery now were going to go on to the streets of london to try to see what the public think they should done this before coronavirus went into lockdown the fact that on the one people 100 pounds. And probably money other Peoples Health just that that makes perfect picture of government. I think we should have been implemented from the beginning. I think its important to abide by these was busy i think theres a lot of science that goes behind coming up with these rules most of the shops that i went into werent really forcing the rules those that were just said that they would recommending people to where mosques to cover their faces now many of those shop workers dont want to be enforcing those rules because they fear aggression and backlash from certain members of the public if they were to try to make people wear masks with hundreds of incidents of violence and abuse directed at retail stuff every day we welcome then ousmane that in force meant to be left to their thoughts rather than potentially put in hard working retail colleagues in harms way if. Someone refuses to wear a face mask probably we can kindly asked him to leave but as to enforcing it its not viable it will be certain people would be upset about it. And they did the most controlling boss for us also as well is a weekend in force if we dont always encourage people to have it but. God knows how weve done and sort of the government of said that those who refused to wear face masks when going into shops could be fined up to 100. 00 pounds should an individual without an exemption refuse to wear a Face Covering a shop can refuse them entry and can call the police if people refuse to comply the police have full him. Powers and can issue a fine and the police dont seem to be too keen either saying that making them in force that is both unrealistic and unfair policing the wearing of Face Coverings in shops cant be a priority because we simply dont have the resources to expect my colleagues to be policing the supermarket aisles looking for those shoppers not wearing a Face Covering is unrealistic and unfair the police on the only ones whove been left frustrated with the British Medical Association saying that these measures have come in far too late for months doctors at the British Medical Association have called on the government to ask people to wear Face Coverings up until now the government has refused so this step is long overdue the u. K. Has had one of the worst coronavirus death tolls of any country around the world there are some who say that these measures are better late than never but many others who feel that its far too little far too late is highly r. T. London. The chief of the u. K. Our charity has accused British Museums of being hypocritical in their support of the black lives Matter Movement ever francis says that these institutions should 1st relinquish items in their collections taken by force from africa he explained his position to us. Youve got to clean up your own house before you Start Talking about other people the simple response to it its contradictory really to not have dealt with the whole issue of colonial problem and also the lack of gogos italy in the workforce and also and also support those matters that seem incompatible to me now the comments come after several high profile galleries and museums responded to the black lives about a movement with words of support the British Museums director for example wrote a blog post last month it said that the museum stands in solidarity with the black community throughout the worlds but the British Museum itself has been under pressure for years to return works of art looted from former colonies that include the bronze is taken by british soldiers from nigeria the greeks parthenon marbles and an Easter Island statue u. K. Legislation currently prevents National Institutions from returning looted items in their collections except in the case of art stolen during the nazi era but a British Museum spokesperson said that these students working on changes when it comes to displaying the objects and hes being open about the history of the collections are francis again says museums need to change. Role of new c. M. C. Is being called into question and also the means by which they shouldnt have been assembled is being questioned theres quite a lot of documentation about how these objects came into the possession of the museum so all we need to know is whether or not it was taken with consent were also going for a new kind of music that is more humanitarian and pays greater attention to human rights. Brought in for the pandemic expires in the u. S. With money fearing they will now be thrown out onto the streets that story more after the break. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy on sunday shouldnt let it be an arms race is on spearing Dramatic Development only personally and. I dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. Welcome back in the u. S. An eviction bun meant to soften the blow of the Coronavirus Crisis exposed today and puts millions of americans at risk of losing their homes comes as the daily infection right is showing little sign of slowing down on the scale of open reports with the United States hit harder than any other nation by the coronavirus things to be getting worse with Many Americans becoming a lot more vulnerable very soon after the eviction ban is lifted millions of americans who are renters who live in buildings with mortgages backed by the government could soon be out on the streets here in new york we saw a record trends of folks that were applying for temporary housing in the. Shelter system more than what we had seen and many many recent years and there has not been a response in terms of how we will address of course opening back up with people facing eviction so were looking at just about thousands tens of thousands of families in households facing homelessness many for the 1st time in their lives now aside from the huge social shock this is also a Public Health emergency all of those whove been turned out of their homes will huddle together with relatives or seek shelter when coping 1000. 00 was added. It was a fight trying to get our elected officials to understand that folks need to be isolated and that its a keep them safe from cope 19 so we found that a