Independent regulator of the state. Also this hour striking back china orders the u. S. To shut its consulate general in the city of chengdu and retaliation over the closure of its own consulate in houston as the u. S. Secretary of state ratchets up the pressure by calling on the world to gang up on quote this new tyranny. Or protest in the u. S. City of portland after President Donald Trump sent in troops to stamp out nearly 2 months of antiracism protests a local Business Owner told us he wants the unrest to end. Newfield business just like when your city looks like a war zone failed leadership and were very disappointed poor very angry. And in the city of homburg a 2 year suspended prison sentence is given to inform our concentration camp and whats believed to be possibly the last trial of a nazi era. Terminal. A i. Am a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour the u. K. s Opposition Labor Party is pushing for arties broadcast license to be revoked and the letter to the countrys t. V. Regulator off calm was shot is supposed to be independent and immune from political pressure are takes us through the development. These must be some sort of record in order vanitys history it has done less harm if any booth immediate and long term to Great Britain to the british people and britains future than one woman did in the space of a single unverified letter and this woman she isnt a Russian Agency shes a foreign spy all bent in britains destruction no shes a member of the British Parliament i am writing to request it off calm urgently refuse license in light of this report in to request a meeting with you as soon as possible to discuss my concerns about the broadcaster just to bring everyone up to speed of course is an independent media regulator in the u. K. It has rules according to which every broadcaster in the u. K. Must be objective fair and to preclude any government interference or outside pressure of course is completely independent it must be thats the entire point the system has worked for so many decades of calm hasnt strayed it is mercilessly neutral objective but out of the blue come out multiple officials and they do something terrible they try to destroy what off call me ease distortions in the coverage provided by russian state and International Broadcasters such as russia today the high court has ruled that russia today broadcasts actually potential harm what these officials just did is set a precedent its its the worst sort of precedent one could set an attempt to pressure off call a politically motivated attempt to pressure or even dependent body to shut up someone they dont like using cherry picked arguments which couldnt stand up to so much as a gentle. Breens they argue that r. T. Has violated all of court rules being fined by off com which is true but these opposition members do mention is that other broadcasters like i dont know the b. B. C. Have 3 times as many violations b b c 41 violations in 10 years i. T. V. 40 knives sky news 40 c. 14 and that he hasnt had a single violation in 2 years separately you can sort of understand the allegedly on rebel members of parliament with a Prime Minister like Boris Johnson setting that example there isnt much to aspire to just the Prime Minister agree with me that its time to look at but the licensing for russia today operates in the u. K. Its a tricky business because we got in this would come more credibly from the leader of the opposition had equally got these former the former leader of the opposition when he took money hearing in russia today i mean this is the true test this is pretty protested neither against the leaders of the form of your position stands nor against his willingness to take money from russia today flip flops from day to day mr speaker this is what i mean the Prime Minister stands there making things up the never paid Jeremy Corbyn a penny to travel never not a penny yet barsh johnson he stands there lying and everyone laps it up just hammer a few more nails into this this coffin of nonsense and i am big on hammering those nails in. Never found misinformation disinformation or untruths in any of these coverage of the soulsby incident to the bricks at referendum an analysis of off calm violations paned there are different picture to the role play. Fantasy being played out in the British Parliament. Has a comparable abets a broadcasting standards record than u. K. Pianists it was reported in october 2017 that to b. B. C. Is in a dated with 1000 complains a day 17 times as many objections as rival broadcasters combined obviously of com has dealt with busybodies before and i dont doubt they have their own views on an outsider telling them how to do their jobs but it is worry this hysteria that everything russian is becoming a medical and Mental Health concert an attempt by an endless stream of politicians to to pin everything thats gone wrong everything they did wrong on russia and standing here on the sidelines you can only shake your head as you watch these suspects tickle unfold what is own worst example you can do of russian interference well thats the question which we want to have answered r. T. Has asked afghan to comment on the story no reply yet theres more reaction from r. T. U. K. Hosts after tansey and our guests. We now have the words of secure stormers Shadow Department of Culture Media and sport secretary in a private letter sent to this independent regulator saying almost telling the urgently i need to see you to see her to do work to politically interfere with an independent regulator devastated the fact that sick here starmer seems obsessed by wanting to destroy a free press in britain which the British Labor party in in the spotlight because that would have implications for a free press in this country for article 19 of the United Nations charter human rights charter it would have implications for human rights. Act and presumably just as when he was banned for a defend Media Freedom summit here he would get help from Amnesty International index on censorship obviously because yes tom has crossed a line here he is attempting perhaps to interfere with an independent. Independent media regulator politically. This is a really a move by the labor party was. Engineer by secures nama if they decided to be more people dont take this it is a very significant letter from the labor party view that they declare that theyre now on the russian side and they are going to become patriots and defending the values of britain whom under broad of com is independent and can take its own decisions and to feel pressured by either the delivery but it will be conservative blogger. Heres my problem with all of this were seen propagandists information from multiple Media Outlets and r. T. Its not like theres been any hidden hidden meaning behind what that is that letter and stands for russia today and so theres no theres no kind of covertly ideology which is not what weve seen for example from the chinese and from others which the us is obviously going after so what my question is is how dumb do politicians think the average public is how done do these politicians think people are that we cannot choose where we get our news from that we cannot choose where we get our information from. China has ordered the u. S. To shut its consulate in the city of chengdu as a tit for tat measure as earlier washington ordered beijing to shut up shop in houston beijing says its not looking for a fight. Believe it or to the Current Situation in bilateral relations which the u. S. Is entirely to blame for is not what china desires to see once again we urge the us immediately to retract its wrong decision and create the necessary conditions for bringing relations between the 2 countries back on track some of the personnel in the u. S. Consulate in chengdu engaged in activities inconsistent with their capacities and interfered in chinese internal affairs they homed chinas National Security interests china has repeatedly made representations to the former consulates and america is aware of this. The Trump Administration order china to shut its houston consulate on tuesday my pompei out the front of the move claiming that beijing was stealing intellectual property beijing called the abroad closure of its consulate a political provocation while its Foreign Ministry said the countrys embassy in the u. S. Received Death Threats because of the sentiment whipped up by fellow trump as tensions escalate between the 2 geo political foes the us secretary of state has called on other nations to form an alliance against china but we have to admit a hard truth we rest of it after the should guide us in the years and decades to come we want to have a free 21st century and not the chinese century. Thing dreams the old paradigm of blinding gauger with china simply get it done the United Nations nato. G 7 countries the g. 20 our combined economic diplomatic and military power is surely enough to meet this challenge we directed clearly and with great courage the free world must try to over this new tyranny we heard from china expert only who says the u. S. Is acting in fear. Many people in the United States are strangely upset with the very authoritarian way that the trumpet ministration is dealing with the protesters and basically accused china of not following the ignore and violating human rights a lot of people would probably cry foul and say oh you sound like youre being a hypocrite here u. S. Foreign policy folks basically are worried that china would include the us economically and therefore politically be and in militarily you over time and thats their biggest fear i dont think its as a team to human rights. The iconic highest afia in istanbul has reopened for muslim prayers with its 1st friday worship as a free top Turkish Court revoked its status as a museum at its highest if he has 1st muslim prayer and almost 90 years crowds of worshippers will be nearby square for the inauguration and the turkish president was also in attendance heres a quick look at the history of the u. S. Go World Heritage site. During prayers the question for us goes an icon of the former will be covered with curtains at other times though the artworks will become covered with the holy site open to tourists. Some World Leaders have criticized turning the site into a mosque again inside turkey the decision met with a mixed reaction one turkish pollster found that almost 50 percent of respondents saw it as an attempt to shift focus away from the countrys economic woes heres what people in istanbul had to say. Hyas a few years a fundamental right of muslims its been converted into a mosque as a result of this victory no muslims can pray freely when highest feel was a museum there was a restriction that prevented worship but its totally the wrong decision even if its not an insult can offend people after all the founder of our country gifted highest fear to humanity as a museum and i think it would be better if it retained the status of historical artifact. We need to respect every religion in fact mohamed had always advised peace saying a christian neighbor is in my camp there arent supposed to be any into thief conflicts it is important that i assume remains a museum and it is important that it becomes a mosque but it doesnt matter to me this is. Mr. Morton. Because you call him stupid. As the center of the mostly sunni were now if you try to raise the more. You supporters of. Perhaps preparing elections are in therapy so this is a domestic for you because ive been in the shoes of mr erdogan is the reality. Of france all decrease the us at the same time of friends or. Civilization there are real world is against this decision it harms relations between greece and and the relations between european and the European Union and the other. Countries turkey. They need to. Hear. This is r. T. International still had on the part. A 2 year suspended prison sentence is given to a former concentration camp guard has been found guilty of accessory to mass murder details on that story im more after the short break. Seem wrong. To shape. And in. Equals betrayal. Worlds apart. To look for common ground. No shots. Actually felt. A strong. System. Which your thirst for. Welcome back u. S. Military insists it kept a safe distance while conducting a visual inspection of an iranian aircraft on thursday after several people on board an iranian passenger plane were injured during an encounter with a u. S. Fighter jet the incident took place in the skies over the syrian capital is captured on video is published by Iranian State media as alleged that the jet made a dangerous maneuver forcing the airliner rapidly to drop altitude to avoid a collision the iranian Foreign Ministry says the incident will be investigated and some of those aboard the passenger plane shared their experience. When we were over syria a fighter jet suddenly approached our plane and the pilot would use the altitudes to prevent a collision this led to some passengers getting injured. I will be black or your plane approached our plane and cause the airplane to lose its balance and my head hit the ceiling. Or live analysis were joined by professor Sayid Mohammad marandi of the university of tehran now why do you think the u. S. Jet flew so close to a passenger plane to begin with. The view here is that either the americans wanted to hide behind that jet and hopefully have syrian air defenses bring down their line or just say what the israelis did with the russian jet a while back as you are or that the United States air force wanted to force the pilot of the plane to make a catastrophic mistake and to accidentally bring down the jet there is no other reasonable answer to this question this was obviously a violation of International Art the plane was fun flying within a well known International Corridor or iranian flights use that corridor regularly the americans know this and most importantly the us air force is in syrian airspace illegally they are an occupation force on the ground and the us also illegally occupies syrian airspace. But the u. S. Does say it acted on it when accordance with International Standards is that not the case then. Well thats what the United States always says and the American Media and much of the western media will obediently mimic what the government has a say in whether they hate trump or love trump when it comes to iran or many other countries which the United States considers them to be adversaries they will whatever the American Government says the media will will repeat obviously the iranian citizens and the lebanese citizens on that flight saw the plane they said so themselves many of them carried out interviews in lebanon when they left the airport or when they were leaving the plane actually and they were all saying that plane that the u. S. Fighter jet was very close and that the pilot had to suddenly. Make a maneuver in a way to protect the passengers and the plane and many people were seriously injured we saw in that clip how women were screaming you know children were hysterical man we saw a couple of men whose head hit the ceiling its obvious that this was no ordinary event but the United States in traditionally tries to intimidate people it is exactly what its doing with iran right now or venezuela or the United States is trying to strangle the country their intention is to starve people through the maps that maximum Pressure Campaign to make people suffer so that people will die as a result of lack of a lack of medicine why wouldnt they behave like this towards and airliner and why would the western media say anything about it remember this is the same United States that gave Saddam Hussein chemical weapons that supported isis and al qaeda and other extremist groups in syria that destroyed libya that helped the saudis destroy a yemen and create a starvation there and the list goes on. Weve been speaking with professor said Mohammad Marandi of the university of tehran thank you so much for joining us on the program today. Tensions remain high in the u. S. City of portland over the deployment of armed federal forces there they were sent on earlier this week by president all trump to call antiracism protests the white house claims the mayor of portland has lost control of the city over more than a dozen u. S. Mayors most of them democrats have voiced alarm over the federal crackdown. Meanwhile the ongoing protests have affected portland shop owners who stores in the area vandalized and looted one of the targets was a Jewelry Store thats been operating in the area for 30 years now and may looters broke into the premises and stole numerous items the owner says clients are afraid to go downtown because of the ongoing protests she spoke to r. T. About the situation. And not only ones many businesses in Downtown Portland are hurt its not the portland we know its not the city that weve been doing business in for over 30 years its just boarded up streets. You know a lot of graffiti just destruction everywhere and were very disappointed with the studio officials they dont consider what theyre doing its tutorship when you feel businesses like that when your city looks like a war zone and failed leadership and were very disappointed were very angry and at this time we just dont know what the future of Downtown Portland will look like and you allow lawlessness when you allow looting and when you dont hold people accountable this stuff is going to continue and if their leadership failed the businesses the residents of Downtown Portland big time and just why this is happening there is no accountability being held right now against looters. In germany a u. S. Court in hamburg has handed a sentence to a 93 year old man and 17 he was an s. S. Concentration camp guard hes been convicted of over 5000 counts of accessory to murder our europe correspondent peter all of our has the story. This 2 year suspended sentence that was handed down to 93 year old bruno d. Could well be the last verdict handed down to a perpetrator of crimes a cheering the holocaust he was found guilty of being an accessory to 5232 counts of murder while he was an s. S. Guard the tough concentration camp. Due to his age 93 years old as i said it was always unlikely that a judge was going to hand down a custodial sentence the 2 year suspended sentence though was greeted with mixed opinion by those representing the victims but i understand how they reached a suspended verdict but i cant accept this its all because they suspended sentence for a mass murder even when the defendant was a teenager juvenile is basically sending the wrong signal says theyre out of a verdict is balance this verdict is also a signal to Foreign Countries really that these crimes will be punished havent 70 to 75 years after a mass murder judge on my a good bring said that bruno de viewed himself as just a mob server in the killings that were going on and she also contradicted claims made by the defense team the 93 year old would have tried to escape from the camp himself if an opportunity had arisen the judge said he knew what was going on there and how people were being killed earlier this week we heard from bruno de himself who said how he felt about the actions that took place all those years ago. I would like to apologize to those who went through this hell of madness and their relatives Something Like this can never be repeated there are other investigations into the crimes of the holocaust ongoing but due to the well the amount of years that have elapsed since the crimes were committed and the age of those who are accused of perpetrating those crimes as well as the age of those who survived it seems that this trial may be the last one in the german court that will be seen through to completion. Of the round up of the days top news for now as always thanks for tuning in ill be back with more in about 30 minutes time. We go to work you straight home. Always the issue of chinas playing out in the American Election cycle. Betrayed themselves as being tough on beijing maybe they are at least rhetorically but reality those are very different story and its bipartisan the commanding heights of industry and finance important china for day one of the ridges to show is this chinas for. 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