i reckon that not everyone believes that chicago is a term free zone if he's serious about helping the people in chicago especially on the west side of chicago. well the outburst of deadly gang fighting took place right after. some people claim the bloodshed is a consequence of the corrupt authorities since you cargo we spoke to gregory livingston organized. segregated segregated in terms of geography. segregated in terms of educational assets health care assets capital investment it was second grade for quite a long time matter of fact we martin king said all throughout the softy of march but chicago was the most segregated city he had ever been in and we're still facing the the. byproduct of this legacy because when you segregate the city you insulate one part of the city it's such a way in comfort and you ostracize the other in

a lack of a lack of assets poverty challenge or disadvantage which generate a certain level of violence. international chemical weapons experts are heading to the english town of amesbury next week to probe the poisoning there which left one person dead and another severely ill the watchdog has already confirmed that died from contact the same type of substance used in march to attack a former russian double agent and his daughter however they still don't know if it was the same batch of poison. the experts from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons returned to the u.k. to continue their work to independently confirm the identity of the nerve agent which resulted in the death of one british national in a newsgroup and left another seriously ill presumably they're going to be able to try to help move the investigation forward we do know that they'll be collecting

further sound balls they will be sending those back to o.p.c. w. labs and then reporting back to the u.k. and of course this comes as investigators continue to try to piece together what it is exactly that unraveled on june thirtieth and amesbury one two british citizens were taken to hospital and treated on suspicions of novacek poisoning and of course one of those people died and what it is that happened on march fourth when former double agent sergei script pollen his daughter yulia were poisoned leading to a major international scandal because still as we speak right now today both of these cases continue to be plagued really with the lack of any tangible findings some of the latest details circulating here in the british press have included claims citing sources close to the investigation that police had reportedly identified two suspects in the poisoning claiming that they were russians those reports even suggested that british authorities are getting ready to ask for those people to be extradited however those were very quickly played down in russia of

course said that they've received no such request and have talked about the number of speculations that have been flying around involving these cases says this incident there have been no less than a hundred reports based on leaks and sources that's why we shouldn't rely on this information we don't trust unconfirmed reports in the media hopefully with this latest upcoming o.p.c. w. visit more information will be shed on those two cases. u.s. sanctions against iran which have just come into force. i've seen all prices spike with analysts predicting that the trend will continue and with the us preparing yet more sanctions the e.u. around second largest trading partner has shown it is ready to protect european companies doing business with terror. we are determined to protect european economic operators in gauged in legitimate business with iran this is why dear

pinions updated blocking statute enters into force on the seventh of august to protect e.u. companies doing legitimate business with iran from the mpact of u.s. extraterritorial sanctions we believe that it is and it has to be up to the europeans in this case to the side with home to trade. well the first round of sanctions prohibits iran from using the us dollar and restricts trading in precious metals it also includes limiting arraigning currency flows as well as constraints on the cartwright spirit come now looks at the kind of impact u.s. sanctions have had in the past the trumpet ministration has imposed so we think things should only run with the goal of curtailing so-called iranian aggression and blocking all paths to iranian nuclear radiation now the outcome of such a move is hard to predict but from what we've seen so far unilateral u.s. sanctions are rarely successful but that certainly wasn't for lack of trying the

department of treasury is sanctioning turkey's minister of justice of the united states has issued sanctions and i keep russian oligarchs we will enforce the ban on tourism the united states will stand idly by as venezuela. we will enforce the embargo the question is are saying to. the west announced it would be sanctioning turkish officials over on crowe's detainment of an american pastor turkey didn't respond so highly you know shown patience but the step america has taken does not with it's a step taken towards a strategic partner in america has shown serious disrespect towards turkey as you can guess the pastor is yet to be released. to us has imposed a round after round of sanctions against moscow by. have any demands been met now even some russia hardliners have admitted that previous thinks is against moscow

have been ineffective the current sanctions regime has for you to deter russia from meddling in the upcoming two thousand and eighteen mid-term elections and the republican senators groundbreaking solution more sanctions but years have gone by and crimea is still part of russia russia still in syria and russia is apparently still trying to influence the election at least according to some american politicians and media outlets. cuba has been under u.s. sanctions since the early sixty's and have and it's still under u.s. sanctions but those restrictions haven't been successful in a capitalist overthrow the cuban government was still very much a communist state the unilateral sanctions don't work we've seen that in cuba for many many years where the u.s. tried to unilaterally crush the economy of cuba didn't work it didn't work in iran under both republican and democratic administrations previously it's a stepping stone towards possible military actions what they do is to some extent

they have been in power and to some extent their political organizing and by imposing the sanctions first it's a step that were in their view would help legitimize it or sit in washington you think that the u.s. is all powerful militarily and can win any war that it wants. to kick him to the negotiating table but those things since it weren't unilateral but multilevel sanctions backed by the u.n. security council we've brought new accountability to the north korean regime when north korea continued its illegal missile test we brought all the nations of the security council together including china and russia to impose new sanctions but some would argue the sanctions lead to pretty disappointing results. smear economy porsena you watching our tell you still to come this hour the son of a child bahraini opposition politician goes on hunger strike over his father's treatment we'll have a look at the details just off the bat. same

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people get. interested in the logs. there should. be washing off the international night of the son of a child the bahraini opposition figure is going on hunger strike over his father's alleged mistreatment imprisoned. has begun his protest outside the country's london embassy he told us why he feels the case needs to be highlighted.

my father was seventy years or so have been life in prison and bahrain it was they thought surely they would tell me they are to me the denial of for medical treatment there for me because it is access to books even what i thought are. quite that my father court for robbing the dictator of regime in my country i'm talking not about the basic rights which is medical treatment to man who is seventy years old. i'm calling for family visitation because he couldn't i mean see

my family for me to come here in a few months what is the reason for denying medical treatment for seven years while man it is not nor the pursuit if you did is not support reason. yeah. he continues to receive medical examination along with these prescribed medications and the special diet the spiral of his medical regime. i wrote a letter to one piece and there are a few more ice organization about my father situation but because nothing changed and they've been my father is dying discord. well we asked bahrain's foreign affairs ministry to comment on those allegations of human rights violations although so far we haven't received a reply. now thousands of displaced syrians are returning home as government forces drive out the last pockets of militant resistance the country's media reporter special refugee committee is being set up to coordinate the process of resettlement

and to help millions of civilians rebuild their lives but some news outlets do you see the situation a bit differently as artesia goes down off explains. a brutal despot a mass murderer a children gassing animal the nicknames the international media tag the syrian president bashar assad with self-explanatory as to why seven million syrians had fled the country since two thousand and eleven pundits prophesies the dictatorship must come down before anyone would dare to go home when we asked them about president bashar al assad they said they don't want him dead because that would be too easy it is the syrian government in fact more than isis that has ruined their lives and led to so much of the refugee crisis they escape with their children and if you possessions but as they crossed the border to safety many also bring their hatred of the man they blame for leaving them homeless come twenty team the syrian

army is one by one retaking new areas from opposing factions and he assad forces once in charge of the larger part of syria are reduced to two small pockets of land and what's that tide of refugees is coming home. to go back we want to return to our beloved syria i want my daughter to have a future she doesn't. have then i want to go back to syria return to our home less of that as for why i'm going back there is no place like home we were not happy here thank god safety and security have back in syria and never done it now we hope for the returning home it's not a case of a few mad men who are for some twisted reason seeking to return under the regime of a tyrant according to the russian defense ministry out of those seven million that escape the conflict more than one and a half are seeking to come back to syria now there's more the path has already been

paved for them the u.n. recorded more than seven hundred thousand syria. as who returned last year and began rebuilding their lives. thank god for the electricity is back and life went back to normal again i want to fix my home leave and sleep with peace of mind of course there are millions who are still too afraid to go back for many it is indeed the dread of us stopping them but those who did and are returning may very well inspire hundreds of thousands more to go back to their roots well my faqih from human rights watch told us to the people that returning home to need additional assistance it's difficult to keep track of all the numbers of people that are going back but we do know that some individuals have returned to government territory and the territory that has been held now by the syrian

democratic forces the u.s. forces does include just place from other parts of the country as well as. which. some syrians are electing to return and all others continue to remain in the neighboring countries and other countries for fear that they would be caught out in the conflict or in pursuit of persecution by the government there is a construct that the russian government and other governments like and ensure that conditions do develop so that confidence in return even. so that brings you up to date for this hour don't forget you can stay on top of things to you by going to our social media pages and you tube.

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my thanks . thanks. thanks thanks. thanks. greetings and salutations despite the fact that chicago is reportedly on track to have fewer gun related homicides than average this year it weekend of violence in the windy city has brought the issue back into the national spotlight over seventy people were shot in chicago from the evening of aug third to the morning of august sixth it is being reported that at least twelve of those people have died due to their injuries

sunday evening thirty people were shot in just three hours and while the police seem to have no idea what possibly could be causing the increase in violence it is by their own admission that the highest rates of gun violence happen disproportionately in low income minority neighborhoods on the city's west and south sides is chicago looking to increase social services in these areas are they studying how economics may be exacerbating the issue or is their police force doing more to put away those responsible for violent crime instead of chasing down people for an ounce of marijuana you know mayor rahm emanuel says the problem is that there's a shortage of values about what is right what is wrong we as a city in every corner have an accountability and responsibility if you know who did this be a neighbor speak up. guess what rahm the department of justice did speak up back in january of last year when they released one hundred sixty four page report that concluded that chicago's police force was improperly or poorly trained far too

quick to turn to deadly and excessive force for which there was no consequences and that most of those violations were against black and latino residents the leaders of chicago or now have to face their own failures their own complicity in the deaths of innocent civilians and their utter and complete resistance to taking responsibility for their actions so maybe it's time to stop blaming the victims and start watching the hocks. the only real the. real this is what. lies at the bottom. but it looks like you like not i got. this. i. welcome everybody to watching hot i'm comical

oleson joining me today from chicago is the national director of the y.p. one hundred charlene a caruthers and joining us here in washington d.c. is local community organizer with b. y. p. one hundred because that hampton thank you both for joining me thank you for having us thanks so at a press conference on monday chicago police superintendent eddie johnson has had a few fingers to point in the direction of his problem aslant take a listen to what he had to say. we need the community and community leaders to work with us we parents to be parents we need neighborhoods to be neighborhoods you all know who these individuals are. so. when i start with you charlene rudy giuliani five fold to the democrats that's all of this is because of the democrats the mayor blames the governor and the judges and the

police blame the people being victimized by gun violence does this. first i want to ask you both when you see this it seems to be a trend that's been happening for many years in chicago where it is historically been to blame and sort of no matter what the numbers are it's the worst and it's all because of certain reasons so limit me ask you first why is chicago so historically always this very violent city and it's always in these black and latino neighborhoods like this what what's going on. so that's a great question and i first have to start with it's very difficult to have this conversation coming out of the kind of weekend that we just had in the city and what we know is that chicago is a landing place for hundreds of thousands of black folks during the great migration and immediately during that period of time black folks were segregated they face violence so we're talking decades of that vesna from our communities and violence from various public officials and what we're seeing right now is the finger

pointing of blame going everywhere except for people looking with and saying this is how i'm responsible i have control over millions of dollars hundreds of millions of dollars and i'm making the wrong decisions for my city let me ask you close one what is that you know what is that historically what do you feel like as a historical aspect and also. i you know i don't want to be that person who just points at someone and says racist but isn't it kind of racist to tell people that the violence being perpetrated against them is their own fault that they should read on their family members that if you just did something as if it's their fault what kind of rhetoric does that how does that play in a community is definitely downplaying the structural inequalities that we see in chicago and that we've seen even since daley consistently the city of chicago has spent over forty percent of this city budget on policing we have just seen a ninety five million dollars police academy be pushed through city council we also

see the continued disinvestment in divestment from community resources from community based organizations and a lot of these things have not just come into play and they aren't just rahm emanuel but rahm emanuel station and the position that he uses in order to extend his power and further his power in order to make sure that he's not being there he's not being blamed for a lot of these things that we see happening in the city and i think that him pushing the blame on communities and calling for accountability on communities this morning was very interesting when he made sure the chicago police officers don't face any. convictions or they don't face any accountability themselves as a matter of fact we see divestment for a minute health resources we see the closing down of over fifty schools in chicago but you see a beautiful new school ninety five million dollars coming to police and so who does he really want to invest in is it the community members that he's supposed to serve

or is it the police officers who serve him and his interests but a lot of that comes to do with police here in the end i grew up in wisconsin and just about three hours north of chicago and the idea that chicago is where all the bad stuff comes from has been perpetrated on a lot of people for a long time and both of those there's always been this idea of the chicago mayor always sort of. skirts the blame and then you go to face like wisconsin and there are governors then start the blame to chicago and the whole thing is well you're letting them come up here and that's where the idea of welfare queens and all these myths came from and what really taught all of us was that if you are poor and white you should not like people are poor and black because there is a problem and that sort of rhetoric just builds and builds shutting it down and that's what they do you know that's what they do is a tool of divisiveness what we know to be true that in the city of chicago as close at mansion we are our local government decides to spend nearly forty percent of our

public service budget on the chicago police department that's about four million dollars a day and as they spend nearly four million dollars a day what we see in our communities is a continued divestment right and what we also see is people literally having a feeling and the material like reality that their lives don't actually matter and while we continue to see millions of dollars invested in sports stadiums and and what's coming to chicago the obama presidential center that is endorsed by the mayor and overwhelmingly by city council saying that we're going to spend we're going to put tens of millions of dollars in the would live neighborhood and we're not going to actually commit to a benefits agreement that says that this is going to benefit the community and is not going to displace people what we know is going to happen when the obama presidential if it's actually built without a community benefits agreement is that there's going to be more policing and more pushing out of black people and entire and there will be more violence in our

communities taking away more black lads and you've seen the police also and with rahm emanuel's help sort of push back against any accountability there was earlier the police union about a month ago had said that they didn't want to have to report every time they pointed their common gun at somebody and i find that reprehensible and one of the other things i find pretty reprehensible about all of this this violence that happens which. cargoes is almost entirely pointed at being young black men being killed by other black men but there's a lot of women suffering from you know who don't go to police when they get raped too are dealing with domestic violence and those numbers are just sort of washed under that there's a whole system at play so let me start with you because we've got a couple minutes left just a minute let's how does that sort of underpinning of this taking women out of the equation and making it about this what effect does that have on black women as part of that community that rahm is saying you know you should just work harder well i mean since twenty eighteen began the city of chicago has already spent over twenty

million dollars in misconduct cases settling and that right there is a brutal highlighting of how the city instead of actually holding itself accountable for the harm that it does from false arrests to illegal search and seizure how they fail to hold themselves accountable and how they consistently put in effort or coppa all of these different institutions that the mayor sponsors that is supposed to hold. the c.p.d. accountable but they don't and who you who ends up facing the brunt of all of these things being black women there was officer gwen evans who. was able to avoid being prosecuted for harming a black woman where there was saliva found on her neck well the prosecutor says that there's no saliva they can't prove whether the d.n.a. was from his hand or from saliva washing his hands or his mouth be playing eleanor

naaman so you have these black women who are trying to avoid the surveillance the overt surveillance that comes with navigating the systems that they have to in order to survive and being told that there will fare queens and also being told that they are lazy when in reality black we have black women's equal pay day tomorrow and we know. black women are drastically underpaid and especially in cities like chicago where most of them have to work in survival economies and continuously see themselves criminalized and placed in jail instead of their communities and this includes black trans communities and their communities getting the resources that they need completely completely marginalized surely we were your thoughts on this couple live about a minute after going to slap. it up so it serves none of us to tell a single story about the impact of the violence or any kind of violence in the black community right so a story that says that yes black men and boys are disproportionately victims of

violence in this city we should say that we have a duty to make sure that the story of police violence is about them killing us and it is also about them raping us it is about them harassing us is the policing that black women and girls experience when they go to the public aid office when they go to the hospital to the abortion clinic is all of those things that are reflected in those numbers of killings and in all reality the killing of the physical body is absolutely a killing and the killing of the spirit is another type of killing and that all matters so we got to tell a more complete story about what's happening to black people in chicago and across this country and frankly around the world from chicago to south africa where women are fighting right now is in sexual violence and as long as we tell an incomplete story we're going to have incomplete solutions so once we start telling the full story of why.