Regulator devastates. Striking back in china orders the us to shut its consulate general and the city of chengdu in retaliation over the closure of its own consulate. As the u. S. Secretary of state ratchets up the pressure by calling on the world to gang up on quote this new tyranny. Several people aboard a passenger plane are injured after the pilot is forced to make a dangerous maneuver were going to encounter with a u. S. Fighter jet. Watching our international bring your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. The u. K. His Opposition Labor Party is pushing for arties broadcast license to be revoked and a letter to the countrys t. V. Regulator off com the watchdog is supposed to be independent and immune from political pressure. To have takes us through the development. These must be some sort of record in order vanitys history it has done less harm if any both immediate and long term to Great Britain to the british people and britains future than one woman did in the space of a single letter and this woman she isnt a russian agent she isnt a foreign spy or bent on britains destruction no she is a member of the British Parliament i am writing to request it off calm urgently refuse arties license in light of this report into request a meeting with you as soon as possible to discuss my concerns about the broadcaster just to bring everyone up to speed of calm 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 potentially harm what these officials just did is set a precedent its its the worst sort of precedent one could set an attempt to pressure of course 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 breeze. Yes they argue that artie has violated all of court rules been fined by off com which is true what these opposition members dont 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. Food 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 the licensing for russia to operate in the u. K. This is because this is 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. In russia today i mean this is the turkish this is the key 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 see never paid Jeremy Corbyn a penny to appear chattel 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 off court never found misinformation disinformation or untruths in any of our coverage of the soulsby incident to the bricks at referendum an analysis of off calm violations paint a very different picture to the rule playing fantasy being. Played out in the British Parliament has a comparable a better broadcasting standards record than you kate p. S. It was reported in october 2017 that the b. B. C. Is inundated with 1000 complaints a day 17 times as many objections as rival broadcasts this combine 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 the been 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 the spectacle unfold what is the worst example you can do of russian interference well thats the question which we want to have answered r. T. Has asked our com to comment on the story no reply yet but heres more reaction from our t a k house Afshin Rattansi and from our guests. We now have the words of secure stammers 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. Engineered by secures nama if they decided to be more people want to this is a very significant letter from the labor party view that theyve declared 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 shouldnt be pressured by either the labor party or the conservative party. 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 stance for russia today and so theres no theres no kind of colver 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 matter as earlier washington order beijing to shut up shop in houston china says its not looking for a fight though. To major 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 ordered china to shut its houston consulate on tuesday by pump a 0 defended the move claiming that beijing was stealing intellectual property beijing called the eruption closer of its conflict a political provocation all torn Ministry Said the countrys embassy in the u. S. Received Death Threats because of sentiment typed up by donald trump as tensions escalate between the 2 geo political foes the us secretary states has called on other nations to form an alliance against china but wait we have to admit hard truth we messed about with the should guide us in the years and decades to come but we want to have a free 21st century and not the chinese century which dreams the old paradigm a blinding gauge with china simply get it done the United Nations nato. The 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 to free world must triumph over this new tyranny we heard from china expert who says the u. S. Is acting out of fear. Many people in the United States are extremely upset with the very best or tarried way that the truck administration is dealing with the protesters and basically accused china. Not following the norms and violating human rights a lot of people would probably cry foul and say oh you sound like youre being a hypocrite here us for all of the folks basically are worried that china would eclipse the u. S. Economic lee and therefore politically. And militarily over time and thats their biggest fear i dont think its as it into human rights. The u. S. Military insists it kept a safe distance while conducting a visual inspection of an iranian aircraft on thursday thats after several people on board an iranian passenger plane were injured during an encounter with a u. S. Fighter jet. Our. Time on when we will move to syria a fighter jet suddenly approached our plane and the plane it would use the altitudes to prevent a collision some passengers getting injured. Your plane approached our plane and caused the airplane to lose its balance and my head hit the ceiling. The incident took place in the skies over the syrian capital was captured on video as published by Iranian State media its alleged that the jet made a dangerous maneuver forcing the airliner rapidly to drop altitude to avoid a collision the Iranian ForeignMinistry Says the incident will be investigated more on this were joined live by professor of political communication for it is obvious from the university of tehran now why do you think that the u. S. Jets flew so close to that passenger plane. You know United States is a sponsor of a state terrorism and obviously the policy of maximum Pressure Campaign on your own is not working and resorting to this type of tactics terrorizing women and children on a civilian airliner. They are not supposed to be in this a bit and corridor air corridor so that its illegal and should not be approaching a civilian airliner thats illegal and should not be in syria that city that the Syrian Government has asked the United States to leave its territories syria is an independent country so by engaging these type of activities they have violated the Chicago Convention they have while that syrias solvency and have demonstrated that their policy has failed and its time for them to leave syria and leave the syrians and iranians and not the people in this part of the world and theyre causing the huichol of the and they should the stuff when its important to remember that this is a passenger plane how its like and this have led to a tragedy. Quite easily you know. What the United States did in 108870 and you know an airline there in the persian gulf shooting their line that the plane and that theres altered in about 290 people getting killed and given that history the United States is playing this fire they are. Aging in this type of reckless activities and they are endangered in the lives of these civilians women and children and. There is no justification for it if you have the simplest type of raid d you can. Realize a plane is a military jet plane or a civilian airliner if you dont have to go and look at it from a close distance what theyre saying is. It really doesnt make sense and engaging in activities that demonstrates illegal behavior and investigation has been launched at this point what kind of reaction do you think well see from iran. Well i think you will see they are in government taking legal action i think he will see the Syrian Government also taking. Legal action we have the International Court of justice they are going to be. Trained. In the International Court of justice the International CivilAviation Organization has been notified by the Union Government and they are supposed to take an action but the u. S. Has and is obviously illegal and these international bodies. Should and i think will condemn these type of activities so thats on the legal side i think even in the moment realizing that the u. S. Is doing this out of a policy decision that they did not do this before this is. An airline that has been going to lebanon for many many years this is the 1st time they have done that so this may be a policy decision to escalate this type of pressures against iran given the fact that trumper Administration May be out of office in january and the people who designed the maximum Pressure Campaign. In state on are feeling that theyre running out of time so since this is a political decision and a military decision i think they dont you know may actually take political decisions and military decisions in response part is that a professor of political communication from the university of tehran thank you very much. And. Still ahead on the program the former Istanbul Museum highest afia has held its 1st muslim prayers since becoming a mosque again thats among our story after the break. The world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person with those words. Thinks. We fear to ask. The Janet Jackson the last of the baby boomers or speculating in the night the ninetys on the birth of companies that went public for the 1st time and they would have these pops and then there was this enormous crash where the millennialism gens ers speculating on the death of companies in companies that are dying and declared their dead companies and their supply plowing their way in just speculate on the death of a company. Welcome back the iconic highest afia and istanbul has reopened for muslim prayers with its 1st friday worship after a top Turkish Court revoked its status as a museum earlier a high a sophia held its 1st muslim prayer and almost 90 years crowds were. In the nearby square for the inauguration and the turkish president was also in it and heres a quick look at the history of the u. S. Go World Heritage site. From now on during prayers the christian for us goes and i cons of the former cathedral will be covered with curtains at other times though the artworks will be kept uncovered with the holy site open to tourists some World Leaders have criticized turning the site into a mosque again and sighed turkey the decision was 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 have to say. I also hires 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 high as if it was a museum there was a restriction that prevented worship but its totally the wrong decision even if its not an insult it 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 muhammad had always advised peace saying a christian neighbor is in my camp there arent supposed to be any into thieves conflicts it is important that the. Remains of museum and it is important that it becomes a mosque but it doesnt matter to me. This is. For you. Because you have more him stupid arms for as the center of. The word of mouth you try to raise the more i dont know where he is some quarters will be a part of the and then perhaps. Elections are in therapy so this is a domestic for you because that ive been ive been in the city. Is reality not weeds of friends all greasy hands in the same time were all friends or. Civilization the vehicle near our reward that is against this decision it harms so the nations in that group isnt there and that in nations. And you know the union and the other groups the ground troops. They need as as. Museum. Tensions remain high in the us city of portland over the deployment of armed federal troops their Security Forces were seen firing tear gas and rubber bullets at the protesters. That they were sent in earlier this week by President Donald Trump to quell antiracism protests white house claims the mayor of portland has lost control of the city over more than a dozen u. S. Mayors best of them democrats have won over the federal crackdown. Meanwhile the ongoing protests have affected portland shop owners stores in the area vandalized and looted one of the targets was a Jewelry Store thats been operating in the area for over 30 years and may later spoke into the process and still numerous items that one are now in says clients are afraid to go downtown because of the 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 specials i dont consider what theyre doing is leadership when you feel businesses like that when your city looks like a war zone that stuff 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 we 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 us why this is happening there is no accountability being held right now against hooters. In germany a youth court in hamburg has handed a sentence to a 93 year old man aged 17 he was an ass ass concentration camp guard hes been convicted of over 5000 counts of accessory to murder our europe correspondent peter all over the details this 2 year suspended sentence that was handed down to 93 year old bruno de could well be the last verdict handed down to a perpetrator of crimes during the holocaust he was found guilty of being an accessory to 5232. 00 counts of murder while he was an s. S. Guards the 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 i understand how they reached the suspended verdict but i cant accept this its all because a suspended sentence for a mass murder even when the defendant was a teenager juvenile is basically sending the wrong signal is there also 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 the judge. Said that bruno viewed himself as just a mob server in the killings that were going on and she also contradicted claims made by the defense team that 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. At all for this hour news wise but if youre looking for more head on over tar website r. T. Dot com for countless articles and more thanks for tuning it. Odd note no crowd. No shots. Actually helps because. When the well is dry no arrests. Points your thirst for action. Is always the issue of trying to playing out in the American Election cycle and by betray themselves as being tough on beijing maybe they are at least rhetorically but reality tells a very different story and its bipartisan the commanding heights of industry and finance and important china for days and their visions to show is this chinas. Problem drugs dont always come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies too in every state in the United States we see means very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids and invented america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she just goes after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer so whos to blame patients dont do those manufacturers all the governments. One on one with dr mehmet oz on the subject of politics. Says. Welcome to politicking on larry king. More than 3800000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the United States a 140000 plus dead what happened what went wrong and will we ever get in front of this for these questions and more im joined by dr mehmet oz hes the cardiothoracic surgeon and host of the dr oz show he joins us from new jersey or i doctor the statistics are amazing and even the president said its gone up before it goes down whats go on what do you make of this well i think we didnt take the virus as seriously as we should have and theres evidence for that ill give you europe which had these acts same early insult that we suffered here in the northeast and im in my basement ive been taking my show here since march because my show is in china and we all saw how bad it was there on the off chance may come here we built this but i never thought