This is Art International coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 2 pm welcome to the program. Fears of a 2nd wave of the pandemic have seen parts of europe tightening restrictions again spikes and cases have been recorded in france germany and a number of other countries on the continent earlier my colleague spoke with our correspondents and paris and berlin. Francis seymour towns and cities announce where or when wearing a mask will be a blue lake a treat in public as it aims to take in the cases of new virus that are being who wanted to hear from monday the city of neely the new the cost of front has said that wearing a mask is going to make it free now in the citys pedestrian areas and also in the citys cogs that follows decisions for example in new orleans which has decided that if you go to the open air market in that city you will have to wear a mask and in to us hot spots such as beyond it and some olive theyve said that within the city you will have to wear a mask if you are over the age of 11 and that follows an announcement by the French Health minister who said that the decision could be taken locally to limit the circulation of caveat 19 the prefectures canal by decree extend the obligation to wear masks to Public Places this decision can be made locally depending on the spread of the epidemic in each territory fungus being seeing an upsurge in the number of positive could be 19 cases being announced most worryingly Health Experts say that the uptake is between those aged 20 and 30 with a 54 percent increase now meanwhile there is work underway to create it could be 90 vaccine all the pressure to create one fast many countries saying that they will have some thing that they can grow relaxed by 2020 but the the new is actually warning that even if there is a group that 90 vaccine that is ready there are many hurdles to face because its members face an issue with the lack of certain. He is that it is needed to rule out that vaccine that includes a lack of swing just like masks and old so. A lot of white. Who had 9000 vaccines once developed may come without syringe is and other items and there could be shortages of those Member States who were asked to comment on their preparedness regarding the availability of supplies for immunization for example syringes alcohol wipes people now all of this comes as the latest figures show that across europe more than 210000 people said to have died with their deaths being linked to cope at 19. From friends served to germany now our correspondent peter oliver is in berlin and peters understand the been even the demonstrations against measures that have been brought in to in theory tackle the virus tell us more on such as a around 15. 00 to 20000. 00 people were out on the streets of berlin protesting against them on the tree wearing of masks and of the coronavirus prevention measures there also sort of amongst the crowd who were denying the existence of thought of the covert 19 virus no masks worn at these demonstrations no social distancing it here too and Health Officials here in germany a furious record numbers of new covert 1000 infections worldwide it is crazy to demonstrate against hygiene rules at such a time the deliberate violation of distance rules and mask wearing is not only administrative offense but poses a danger to the health and life of others or the protesters saying they have a right to free speech in a right to demonstrate the German Government sound city officials in berlin say they have a right also to be responsible in these times. Yes demonstrations must be possible during the pandemic but not like these distance hygiene rules and masks so if to protect us all these demonstrations how the against having to follow safety requirements which evidently were not followed so it shouldnt have been held 15220000 isnt representative of the whole of the population of germany but it is a significant number and certainly significant enough to warrant comment from some of germanys closest European Partners today the us to be free of masks in the idea of freedom does not make people laugh skeery well over 130 protesters were detained by Police Dozens of officers reported being injured with 3 of those requiring hospital attention theres also a number of reports of journalists who were there being threatened by protesters who clearly didnt want anybody there reporting on or covering this demonstration ultimately though this isnt a good look for a country that has scored pretty much choice not top of the class worldwide when it comes to dealing with the initial impact of covert 19. Amid concerns about President Donald Trump handling of the Coronavirus Crisis some of us about hers are turning to his democratic rival joe biden polling suggests the 2 candidates are now neck and neck in 2 key states North Carolina and georgia artist kilmartin looks at a new Online Campaign aimed at uniting opposition to trump ahead of novembers president ial election. If your man for the white house lacks a little bit of that x. Factor and has been playing it safe hiding in his bunker for months then perhaps what you need to spark his bid for the presidency is a catchy slogan something to stir up the emotions of the undecided something to rally the troops how about settle for biden sounds like a job right settle for biden bad or they describe themselves as a Grassroots Group of former Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders supporters who recognize joe bidens flaws but now our nation will out survive former years of so maybe its not the most dynamic of slogans but can you blame those who came up with this when they admit they are not the biggest fans of their candidate they just prefer him over another 4 years of turbulent trump and they think they might be on to winner and theres merchandise who would have ever thought that settle for would be Popular Campaign terminology introducing the settle for biden teacher this 100 percent cotton t. Shirt will let people know that youll vote for an old out of touch democrat in november but you wont be happy about settle for biden because it could be worse it could be better but could be worse now of course republicans have jumped in on this to make satire but joe biden does not seem to get the joke and most importantly who is shit. I. But. Im not sure. Now that is unlike all the voters all over twitter seem to be admitting that they are voting for joe biden out of necessity not enthusiasm was running errands in my settled for biden show today walking out of a store a guy said to mate joe biden i shrugged and said yeah i agree and then walked away there was much to argue but hes better than trump get in loser were going to enact some middling reforms to quash social unrest well continuing to perpetuate a racist and classist system that disproportionately benefits and protects the wealthy. Settle for biden but jokes aside the only thing you need to know about this Joe Biden Campaign is that his own motto seems to go against this very concept this is the United States of america we dont settle we is fire lets get to work the United States presents itself as the democratic ideals of the world where free and Fair Elections reflect the popular will however nowadays it seems that voting isnt so much about backing the candidate you want as it is about stopping the one that you dont look up and r. T. New york. Chadwick more a journalist and commentator says the upcoming election is about voting for or against trump. No one wants to vote for this but of course they will its the ads i try to vote youve got this is zombie candidate joe biden and heres a zombie candidate who is just sort of suck walk into the presumptive nomination and theyre going to hope that he doesnt debate were going to hope that they can be sweet as much as possible theyre going to shove out the v. P. As much as they can hopefully she will be able to get some excitement but as of now they are settling providing quite a quote again pain and its tricky a chord with a lot of the liberals because its so true so its very irritating its making them so angry because they all realize that yes we are merely settling for to buy as much. And its the anyone but trump vote and if this is who the overlords of the d. N. C. Would like well then theyre just going to bite the bullet sort of speak and vote for. India is on its way to abolishing Primary School teaching and english Prime Minister Narendra Modis cabinet has approved reforms which urge schools to teach and local native languages of education by the sea and the changes that weve brought in the education policy will for the developing these languages he will increase the knowledge and unity in the. English was 1st introduced to india in the 17th century as a result of trade with britain remained a 2nd official language along with hindi many years after its colonial past being widely used in business and Politics Today about 11 percent of the indian popple the population speaks english the Opposition Congress party as well as other people online expressed their concern over the change arguing it will put a strain on lower class communities who wont be able to afford private tutors for english as well as robbing children of a chance to find work in other parts of india as well as Higher Education abroad. But supporters of the move argue it will bring unity it by erasing colonial ties to the past we spoke to dr vanessa her sob today president of the Indian Council for cultural relations and it member of parliament he says its time to promote regional languages. People who speak english and people who post cannot speak english they did serve some dont fear. Of word discrimination between them and we would like to destroy that reputation but its deep fording yes we did let it go out well english is important everybody should be able to speak good english because english is something which is widely spoken all over the world but that doesnt mean that it should happen at the cost of the devil it meant the freedom of language just after all we do the language is going to bother to fight it it beats you flew dont be a division that nobody else is going to Clear Division in the shia for example there are similar languages but people speak in that i am depressed but it does speak in the russian or in france to prefer to speak in french similarly what is wrong if in india you prefer to speak out of each of the languages we would like to reduce our dependence on english even a lot of the illegal definitely would like to stand on all legs and the devil lead in the language you speak is that late in the spirit of. Wallowing in the modern world. The easing of the lockdown and london could result in a spike of Violent Crimes in the capital thats the concern voiced by mayor city khan who has demanded more support from local police and news service as a former Police Officer told us that some officers are currently refusing to stop and search teenagers for fear of losing their jobs. For a Police Officer to be inquisitive or to being nosy actually is only in the regions own commitments their own need to judge them their own. Weve got a problem here in the u. K. That because Police Officers are even complained against certain elements of what we call the media the activists. Do this and some politicians this is close in new york has to be very worried about jobs in terms of complaints against them so there are many individual Police Officers who are making the decision if they see something suspicious being done by use theyre actually sorry not to gun store and in fact. The net result of this is more blood is unlikely to be starved and more are not treated daryn. Meanwhile the former chairman of britains the qualitys watchdog has stressed that gangs and not the police are the main threat to young black people in the u. K. And while turf phillips did admit to problems with the governments stop and search policy he added its main purpose is to prevent black on black crimes according to the u. K. s office of National Statistics 97 black people were victims of homicide between 20182019 thats 14 percent of all cases half of the black victims were aged 16. 00 to 24. 00 and the majority of victims both black and white in the same race as their murders social activist lee jasper told us the main cause of gang related violence is long term poverty. The poorer a community and the more socially economically private community is the more likely they are to be gauged again by in crime and dysfunctional behavior thats not true of african caribbean communities its actually true of all communities regardless of race and so for instance whilst we dont see night crime prevalent in White Communities we do see Domestic Violence murders prevalent in White Communities we do see vicious violence taking place in pubs you your listeners may not know book and smashing a glass into somebodies face is one of the most common Violent Crimes committed by white people in this country but a black community in the United Kingdom has had above average unemployment and long term poverty provide up to them to fight 40 years particularly in the areas like london where there is a Massive Underground drug seek. Their global news that day continues after this short break. The world is driven by a dream shaped by one person with those great. Thinks. We dare to ask. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see that. The end of a love story will tensions in the u. S. German relationship determine the fate of nato and if elected will joe biden be americas version of the soviet ruler plenty of fresh air. This is R T International welcome back to the program we now move to some world news and brief theres a developing situation in kiev as a man has taken people hostage and a bank and is threatening to detonate a bomb he is demanding the media come and interview him the deputy interior minister of ukraine says its not known whether the suspect house an actual weapon the situation is similar to one that took place in the city of leeds last month when a man hijacked a bus and took 13 passengers hostage and demanded that the president post a video of himself in support of animal. Rights negotiations then lasted 10 hours before the man was freed and freed the people and was arrested. An attack on a prison in afghanistan has left 21. 00 dead and more than 40 injured according to local officials started with a car bomb exploding at the entrance of the prison this was followed by several gunman opening fire Terror Group Islamic state says it was behind the deadly raid which has reportedly result of any mass jailbreak it comes amid a 3 day cease fire between the taliban and government forces. And the space x. Crew dragon spacecraft carrying 2 astronauts has successfully returned to earth after a 2 Month Mission a council made a parachute landing near the coast of florida dragon was launched to the International Space station in may becoming the 1st commercially developed spacecraft to take people into orbit its also the 1st crew space flight launch from the u. S. Since 2011. A trove of recently undisclosed court papers has revealed that a rogue British Special forces unit may have been responsible for the murder of more than 33 civilians in afghanistan back in 2011 now a judge is demanding that the u. K. Defense secretary testify as to why this evidence was not used earlier in High Court Proceedings are. The details. Well im here at the high court in london while the trial is set to continue into allegations of crimes against humanity committed by a rogue s. A. s unit of the british army in the occupation of afghanistan theyre accused of executing innocent civilians now according to the folks accused sions accusations around 33. 00 civilians were killed 11 at Night Missions in afghanistans villages its being described as assassinations against innocent civilians by Afghan Special forces and all of this information has been revealed by a cache of secret documents that came to light and were obtained by the sunday times its all part of a wider case from this group isis for a yahoo is bringing this fight to try and get an independent investigation into the killings of his relatives. Are going good good good. Good good in 2040 in the allegations of this quadruple murder was passed on to the specialist investigation into the branch of the Royal Military police but at the time it wasnt deemed serious or important enough to investigate further despite the s. A. s soldiers involved explained this collective amnesia that could also be interpreted as a agreement to a pact of silence and even at the time the s. A. s soldiers they pull this information forward and those higher up in the ranks the commanders raised eyebrows about this socalled evidence that people that were 8 killed were in possession of a k 47 and even grenades. It was not necessarily about degrees of restraint but rather a deliberate policy among the current c. S. Unit to engage and kill fighting aged males on target even when they did not pose a threat given those in come on so that they did not pose a threat nor were they are engaging in combat of activity nor were they in possession of these weapons that they were described as being as such nor of this has a pattern of clearly having impossible odds according to these documents and so all of that brings into question allegations of now war crimes of course the United Nations definition of war crimes based on the geneva conventions and International Humanitarian law describes intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities now the former director of the prosecutions hes even said that there is a case now to be answered for when it comes to walk crimes it is bad enough for systematically murdering civilians but this is compounded. And government officials deliberately fail to investigate suspected were crimes and then try to conceal the evidence now for years the ministry of defense and britain refused to comment on these allegations but now in light of this cache of secret documents coming to light theyre now saying that there is potentially a case to be repeated. This is not new evidence and this is still recall case is already been independently investigated by the rule neutral police these documents who consider despite of the independent investigations which concluded there was insufficient evidence to refer the case for prosecution very interestingly this evidence has been withheld from the Legal Proceedings prior to the one that continues but prompting the judge to even demand that theres a full explanation from ben wallace who is the defense secretary here in the United Kingdom but unsurprisingly then given this cache. Of secret documents it all raises the questions about whether or not there is a case of war crimes to be all set for the occupation in afghanistan. With israel gripped by protests against its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself is accusing the media of fanning the outrage on saturday night yahoo took to social media posting a meme attacking 2 israeli t. V. Channels and comparing them to the north korean media he repeated that comparison the next day accusing the media bias against him and of turning a blind eye to violence by protesters he also said the demonstrations were an attempt to trample on democracy. The antigovernment protests in israel have resulted in clashes with the police on saturday thousands gathered in front of the Prime Ministers residence in jerusalem demanding the resignation of netanyahu the protesters are angry about alleged corruption and the governments handling of the Coronavirus Crisis israel is seeing a spike in cases with the total number exceeding 70000. 00. Seems to me this was the 1st you know ok. From god these are democracies and theyre danger because were being limited ino right the process i think in every normal country whoever sales goes through and gives a chance to somebody else. Netanyahu is currently on trial over corruption allegations these include favors to Media Outlets and exchange for positive coverage and receiving gifts from businessmen this is seen the Prime Minister charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust netanyahu himself denies all the allegations and calls the process an attempt to depose him political commentator emir or and says the pm is fighting for survival. Theyre trying to. Mobilize their Political Base the one 3rd or less of peace rallies and still hold on point and yells belief and yell portray him self as a courageous rebellious dissident rather than the longest serving Prime Minister now facing a double crisis of his corruption trial and the mismanagement of the coronavirus are condemning so yes there are angry crowds chanting bibi go home and rather than face them he has blamed the media when the media resists and when what you see on television and on the websites are true portrayals of angry israelis unemployed eking out their existence he turns around and tries to blame television press and the news sites. Thats our breakdown of todays headlines for now but if youre looking for more you can always follow us on twitter or facebook for up to the minute reports thanks for telling it. How can you explain love ive been to 82 countries i did in 12 but i came here and on those 3 days i just filled with hope. And he kept pretty isnt it sick show. 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Discuss this and more im joined by my guest bundys and a slow he is an associate professor at the university of southeastern norway as well as the author of russias geo Economic Strategy for a greater eurasia and in budapest we have George Samuel he is author of bombs for peace nato is humanitarian war on yugoslavia right gentlemen crosswalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate ok lets go to also 1st theres a lot of discussion about trumps decision to move i think what 12000. 00 troops out of germany and the the the theme is that coming out of the white house germany is not paying its nato bills but that im not satisfied with that explanation oh by the way its bipartisan its a bad idea everyone knowing i know everyone that knows me watching this program i think nato should be dissolved completely but nonetheless and you know the top line story here is miss place this is about a fraught relationship that germany has had with in nato with the United States leading that Alliance Since the end. Since the not in the end in the end of the 1940 s. All the way to the end of the cold war in 1901 so theres something much bigger player go ahead well obviously its