Some of londons old pay reparations for having links to the colonial era trade. Just after 7 am in los angeles 10 pm in shanghai and 5 in the evening here in the russian capital welcome to our 2 international i mean and. China is threatening to retaliate against the u. S. After president signed on executive order counseling hong kongs preferential trade status mr trump. Proof the hong kong autonomy act passed by Congress Earlier this month which imposes sanctions on officials involved in chinas new security law beijing has dismissed the act as a piece of scrap paper. Made from really that you sound the us act militias least landers hong kongs National Security legislation and grossly interferes in hong kong a fairys in chinas internal affairs the Chinese Government strongly opposes this and strongly condemns that the us sides attempts to obstruct the implementation of hong kongs National Security law will never succeed in order to save guard its own interests china will make the necess
They are joyful they never thought they would see this day, and so they looking for a brighter future. Reporter long frustrated by the disaster on the street, tenderloin housing director randy shaw is bullish on the settlement. It requires 70 percent of the 10th in the city to be removed by july 20. The 30 percent remaining must eventually be removed as well. It shouldnt take a lawsuit for the city to do its job. And if this means we get more urgency and people get off the streets, then we address the unconscionable situation in the tenderloin right now. I think it can be a good thing. Rertdirict supervisor matt haney has mixed feelings. He is worried that only 30 percent of those on the streets are eligible for hotel rooms now held by the city. Right now they are still relying on the same criteria for who gets to come inside. You have to be over 60 years old, or have an underlying medical condition. That leaves out thousands of people. Our primary frustration is that the plan was deve
A global reckoning on Racism Police killings in the United States trigger protests and debates on racial legacies in britain and elsewhere so can europe and the us from each other this isnt whats true. Hello and welcome to the program on iran come on the killing of george floyd an American Police custody has triggered protests around the world some in solidarity with the black lives not on the mint in the United States other demonstrations are coals to confront the legacy of racism in their own countries rallies in britain have hard like to discrimination against minorities as well as britains colonial past a statue of 17th century slave trade edward culson was dumped in Bristol Harbor last week in london city leaders removed a statue of another slave trade a role that milligan and fearing move on to listen boarded up Winston Churchill statute the full protest on saturday. For rights activists have held a council rally saying they wanted to protect the statues of what they call British
A healthy confrontation with the past but an attempt to eradicate history altogether today were talking to professor tom device and scotlands leading historian to ask how the nation should confront the c. B. L. Sides of his own history and how the Mainstream Media been covering this controversial issue we asked professor Jordan Robertson costs us get to go lie over much of the plotting all of this coming up later in the show but 1st the glass going to smita with your tweet your emails and your messages. Thank you alex last week sure focused on the impact of corbett 19 on black asian and minority ethnic communities where we spoke with dr managed to lottie who lost his father to coronavirus pierre byron this month and 100 year old fundraiser charging louisa says i live in africa and the numbers getting covered 1000. 00 are exceptionally low we have less than 200. 00 deaths in kenya under less says how is it any governments fault that some people are more susceptible to corporate 19 than
Homeless charity magazine the big issue he has introduced a bill into palm and that aims not only to limit the effects of coronavirus on future generations but to revolutionize society in the manner of climate that is 945. 00 government that suited the creation of the n. H. S. He joins me now via skype from cambridge in england thank you so much for coming back on lord john birt im going to ask you obviously given that you campaigned about the big issue the name of your magazine all your life it seems the government was able to solve the big issue overnight when it came to a pandemic does this mean that all these years it was a political decision to have homelessness in this country. It was a political decision it was a decision made in the late 19th fiftys and the 19th sixtys to instill not allowing people to be on the streets because of the laws which were cool vagrancy laws which were victorian and made it look as though you were being very hard and tough on the poorest people who e