thank you. nice of unrest in minneapolis sees a police station torched by protesters furious about the death in police custody of a black man. france will further relax its lockdown starting june the 2nd to easing restrictions on cafes parks and travel inside the country. and a new study shows a surge of scription for antidepressants in the view west of doctors raising the alarm about the risks of addiction.

very well continue from our team here in moscow this is r.t. international bringing you the day's top stories from around the world but 1st dominating headlines around the world protests over the death of george floyd while being detained by minneapolis police have raged for a 3rd night late on thursday night a local police station was set on fire. because . the police say protesters forced their way into the building and set it on fire personnel have been evacuated from the precincts before hand the city of minneapolis via social media said there were unconfirmed reports of gas lines leading to the building had been hurt that advises people to leave the area the protests calling for justice for george floyd have spread from minneapolis to other cities.

i am. george floyd died on monday a bystander filmed his arrest the video shows floyd pleading with an officer who was kneeling on his neck a warning you may find the following scenes distressing. the work of. the officer kept his knee there for almost 10 minutes until floyd stopped responding on the day of the incident police said he matched the description of

a suspect in a forgery and that he resisted arrest 3 of the 4 officers involved have been fired the one who was pinning floyd to the floor has been identified as derek he was previously investigated of another death the fatal shooting in 2006 as well as i have a nother shooting other shooting incidents in 20082011 another policeman identified in the video toto had reportedly been stewed in the past over excessive use of force activists that michelle grows told is the police think they can act with impunity. is essential that these that these officers face murder charges. and sack their all that much just today face murder charges but this should be arrested right now one of the reasons that people the community are so upset is because this officers are still running the streets and these are dangerous men and they're running the streets and they have been arrested and if any of us had the

videotape monitoring the man we would all be in the jail waiting for our trials we're not going to be able to cop the community down. until we see that these officers are arrested these officers really have a sense of you know impunity that there's nothing going you know that there will say is no consequences for their conduct and that's kind of their usual feeling is they have a sense of the people he literally was smiling for the camera as he was need mr boyd in the next you respect me smiling for the camera knowing that people were recording him he had no problem with that because he was more than certain that he was going to get away with it because that's been the history in minneapolis. president donald trump reacted to the incident thank you expected his attorney general to look into the matter the best attorney general f.b.i. and the attorney general to take a very strong look and to see what went on because it was a very very bad thing that i saw the department of justice has made the

investigation a top priority and has assigned experienced prosecutors and have be a criminal investigators to the matter for mr minnesota governor jesse ventura told us that while it's difficult to look at minneapolis burning he understands that he might demotivate the motivation of those protesting. where you see the rioting take place on lake street many haha that's my old neighborhood i'm all for protesting the figure that you gotta remember is are you as a white person still can't understand what these black people are going through and let me give you a quick example i have a friend who's a ph d. he's the head of the sounds of blackness or grammy award winning musical group and he lives in minneapolis he said before he drives he's a black man before he drives his car at night he puts his license here his insurance here he puts his car registration here so he doesn't have to reach for

anything i looked at him and said are you kidding me i've been driving in minnesota for 50 years and i have never that thought has never even entered my mind that that's what the white people need to understand we don't get it because it's never been part of our lives like it is with these black people. the french government says it will further relax the country's lockdown starting june the 2nd it's been 3 weeks since the quarantine with 1st aid is down things are looking up according to health officials the number of patients requiring intensive care has reduced significantly of lace so i can paris explains what new freedoms that what the french. positive signs of france said the french prime minister edwin felipe as he announced the next phase of the de confinement plans for frogs. during the 2nd phase system this element which is important freedom will finally

become the rule of the band will be the exception so what will change for this next phase will 1st of all the 100 kilometer that's around 60 miles limit for which people could travel from their homes will be scrapped so people will be able to travel all around france however the borders with other european countries will for the moment remain closed we know the balls restaurants and cafes and parks will also be opening across the country and cultural and sporting events will progress if we start to take place so for next weekend scenes and theaters will be able to open and by the end of june sporting events should be able to also take place in the city of bordeaux there was relief at the new measures that have been announced that would be. happy to welcome customers again it's nice to know that we can work on the quite acceptable conditions given the situation we're going to.

we've rearranged the tables we've marked on the floor for customers and we've got a lot of ads on the walls just don't work sure. we take out food the lifting of self isolation and made the 11th did not change much but i think people will want to go outside and do the work that it's not toping back to normal here for life in front groups of more than 10 people will still remain from in public spaces not so in private spaces such as people's homes and the measures are not completely uniform across the country either paris is a now what's considered to be an orange showing meaning that the virus is still spreading at a higher rate of circulating at a higher rate than in the rest of the country and as a result of the. while bars and restaurants and cafes will be able to open the only be able to open if they have terraces outside to serve their customers the government will also be moving it storm could feed 19 application this is a controversial app for mobile phones to help let people know if they knew

something was had a virus or for people to let the new government that they have symptoms it was passed by parliament tyrants this week but some have suggested that this application is a step closer to total civilians by the state fronts but the application will not be mandatory. we have wanted to provide the french people with an additional tool is the mobile app store coded stuck over it is not a magic weapon against the pandemic but it's new additional tool which enables us to fight against it and fight against it even more effectively in the near future. the french prime minister also talked about the economy which is in a dire state facing a record recession here since the end of the 2nd world war i really was nailed to the post this week with the unemployment which paints a grim picture for france they're at a record high the highest they've been since 1996 that's almost 25 years with some

4500000 people now out of work so france may be emerging from its chrysalis of a lock down but it is a country that is still far from ready to fly. in a move to defend his country's health care system the italian ambassador to sweden has criticized the nordic countries state epidemiologist thanks stockholm should have done better than italy. we had really thought that in a modern wealthy society in sweden we should be able to protect our elderly we thought it didn't need to be like china and perhaps even italy where they have less resources for this but that we should as a society be able to manage this better the challenge of good 19 is not a football game nor the losing turns in the stone soup of the crew of the team it is a common generational challenge to guarantee everyone's health. since the start of

the pandemic sweden has chosen not to impose strict lockdown measures shops restaurants bars and schools have remained open while self isolation and social distancing are encouraged but not enforced so far monk nordic states sweden has been hit the hardest in terms of deaths per 1000000 meanwhile travel bans across europe are set to ease by summer those tweets may end up being excluded from the so-called northern european travel bubble sweden's neighbors all declared strict lockdown measures in march and are concerned about reopening their borders to swedes. i certainly do not believe that it is the case that one should wait to open the border to germany until just consider just a feibel to open the border to sweden if it is not safe to open the border to sweden let the swedes stay out but let the germans come. norway denmark and i seem to have managed to stabilize the situation in sweden the situation is more worrying

norway will allow business travelers from other nordic countries including sweden to enter from june the 1st the inclusion of swedes has locals worried when you think about how sweden handled the whole situation and. kind of fare in my opinion to at least keep it close for some time i don't think they should be to come in here you know because they do have a lot more corona and they're not as careful as we are stuck there for going on one of us i think it is important to take care of ourselves 1st and the number of those info to distil house with them i think it is good that we keep the border closed for a while since our news get on but i think we have mark on too i just talked to a friend in sweden yesterday and she told me that there are only going to start was working for him. i was surprised because we are opening up now so therefore i'm a bit concerned devote opening of the border right now. demand for anti

anxiety and anti depression medications has risen significantly in the us and recent study suggests every 3rd american shows symptoms of anxiety depression or both we heard from psychiatry and other limca who explained this rise in numbers. the nature of the pandemic has increased people's desire to campaign as i had a depressed patients and that's because of the virus where we worry about getting infected and also financial worries we've got new global economic crisis people are worrying about how they're going to pay their bills i think another maybe more amorphous aspect to it is that patients are suddenly people are suddenly discovering that they have very little structure in their day the structure of work or school they used to rely on is no aren't there and lack of structure is a major trigger frames i had to approach isolation and kind of too much contact and both of those can create current went to depression the latest data indicates that

the number of prescriptions is up significantly in recent months the number of antidepressant prescriptions alone rose 86 percent in march and april compared with january and february has prompted doctors to raise the alarm about the risks of addiction among them and of them. really important for people to understand that medications in the benzo days. like a xanax that allien caught up in are highly habit forming that's really just a general way of saying there are varied objective and patients even patients who are taking those medications for bonafide he's 30 disorders can become dependent on and addicted to those medications which is why we strongly recommend that patients don't take them every day and don't take them for more than a couple weeks and many patients come in specifically asking for certain types of

pills a sort of a lot of pressure on doctor to prescribe those who are to have the status by customers i also think it has to do with you know some aspects of american culture in particular that people just expect to be happy and are willing to take a pill you know order to try to get rid of any kind of one comfortable motions it's sort of part of american culture. nothing homes around the world have become kind of at 19 hotspots registering the highest number of death a family in the u.s. has filed a wrongful death lawsuit claiming that another thing holmes negligence that led to that tragedy i lost my father due to negligence at a nursing home so that whole bit 19 i have a lot of people that i no one dared that took care of my father so it's actually an ash that i know that told me that there were times fake patient inmate that i was able to see my dad on his last day and told him that i loved him very much but he

couldn't respond because he had an oxygen mask already his face sort those were his left our sense of being here the way said goodbye to my dad and analysts through what's on video. her father lived in town haven healthcare and glendale california the administration that says that they are extremely proud of that ongoing service we're told to be attorney of the family who says that glen haven covered up its negligence instead of proactively protecting. their residents and the status. quo and he even covered up the fact that they were allowing a nurse or been exposed to the coronavirus to work there they refused to allow their staff and their nurses to wear masks and specifically forbid it so at a time when. everyone needed protection. and these are the most vulnerable

people the elderly and the saying. fail to take appropriate measures to protect them or the opposite they cover it up they minimize the significance of the coronavirus and then tried to pretend it didn't exist and that doesn't work we need responsibility we need accountability so that we can protect the public in this doesn't happen again new york state so i have a 6000 people die in nursing homes and i don't care facilities that number doesn't include deaths in hospitals early in may state governor andrew cuomo released new guidance prohibiting hospitals from sending people who tested positive for 1000 back to nursing homes. mental stories coming up after this very short break do stay with us.

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combat gun shops in the us have seen a surge in demand for private firearms during the pandemic many of the customers appear to be 1st time buyers but shooting ranges are closed meaning that is no way to practice the legal basis for firearm possession is rooted in the 2nd amendment of the us constitution however gun control remains one of the most divisive issues than american politics with regulations varying from state to state federal law sets few limits on who can buy a gun r.t. spoke to a gun shop owner in new jersey where gun ownership is relatively no he say's the recent level of demand is unprecedented. people are

afraid of of a breakdown societal breakdown so there's a stronger demand the present time people want to make sure that they obtain a firearms before the restricted in any way nothing has been like this this is unprecedented in this field and now it seems that the people on the left the liberals or the insight fire people are getting more and more into the mode of buying firearms or preparing to buying a firearm because they see that there could be a societal breakdown due to what they see in the newspapers what the media has been saying and also mass release of criminals from institutions onto the street and people are of course fearful for their families a lot of these people they come in and they almost want to say it feels like you know it's the end of the world. society in general such as hollywood

and of course the mass media a lot of books magazines articles show a lot of movies and a lot of stories of society breaking down pandemics zombies if you will and people love a good story and they actually see some types of parallel with this they see the. the actual virus as being so highly contagious and you know it can end some of the life so fast and they can they can see it playing out to the end. a lot of people that come in to buy a firearm from us or other gun shops or rather surprised when they can just come in and buy one and walk out the door we inform them that the actual process to purchase a firearm could take anywhere from a month up to 10 months i think a lot of people on the left are going to realize that it's a lot more harder to purchase a gun than he ever thought it was. animal rights organization pacer is using the

covert crisis to watch people to go vegan billboard saying tofu never caused a pandemic have appeared in 4 of america's hardest hit states we launched this nationwide campaign to remind people that the meat industry breeds killer diseases and that everyone can help prevent the next viral outbreak by living vegan now peter claims that animal markets and meat manufacturers are responsible for the pandemic in iowa one of its billboards was put up right outside of meat plant the campaign has drawn criticism from some who accuse the organization of exploiting people's feelings i find it very insensitive for peta to have a billboard that states tofu would never cause a pandemic just a few miles from one of and jason largest health care systems filled with people who are fighting for their lives right now not the right time peta. imagine using the pandemic where people are suffering to push it and. wow using the fear pandemic

to use as a way to shove your brother gander on us this makes me sick that you're taking this pandemic as it shifts peace this pandemic is killing people overwhelmed doctors even having people fresh at a med school. we put the issue of up for debate dr carries bennett from pace u.k. and patrick holden from the sustainable food trust discussed whether they can have them can really save people. this might be a fun bearable but it's deadly serious 800000 people who work in meat packing factories have been infected with kind of the 90 day conditions that people have to work in at meat packing factories and in avatars is absolutely atrocious need to sympathize with the plight of people who work there now often on minimum wage they have very long hours it's physically demanding job is in close contact 2nd line virus can jump from one person to another piece don't want to see that and if the

abuse of humans and animals we want these meat packing facilities to be part of history we need to go vegan in order to protect ourselves as well as animals and the environment i think that intensive livestock production factory farming about the most is on that fickle and unsustainable we should all be appalled by those kind of systems of production but your throwing the baby out with a bottle to that we're also saying we should extend our practice to becoming completely legal and that's where i'm challenging you i believe that there is a different way a better way where out of those can't be compassionate they looked after and ferrets during their lives as i am doing it by dairy and for me so see i was being happy during its life and the conditions of its death or as good as they possibly could be that's an ethical choice i feel comfortable with patrick i do applaud your

aims of more sustainable farming and better conditions for adam and what we've got to look at the facts it doesn't matter how good the animal's life has been and however big the field is they may be living in no animal wants to die so you put yourself in their place and you were taken to the average who are what you create about of course you wouldn't it is an ethical to eat other animals and we don't. need to do it in the stone age what i would say to you is that both of the traditional reasons and saw fit to see reasons livestock the right kind of livestock management compassionate way we need to be part of the sustainable farming systems and as always you have got ethical objections it's perfectly right and sensible to eat those products the live animal market would have and was the source of the outbreak for the corona virus with the infection spread so rapidly because of the huge number of different species of animals that they would living

in their own filth are investing asians and show there's just a lot and got us absolutely disgusting but these conditions exist on modern farms around the world as well and we've seen pandemic outbreaks at the moment there's a massive virus infection going on with pigs african swine fever has killed millions of pigs we just don't know when the next virus is going to jump on animals to humans i believe that sustainable livestock production needs to be and will be an integral part of the sustainable whose systems we need for the future and we as the consuming public need to be able to differentiate between those systems which are on ethical unsustainable and therefore part of the problem all those systems that have just been described and those which are emphatically part of the solution and rather like the serenity prayer know the difference between the 2 where do you get in touch and share your thoughts on this issue and all of us stories by

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governments. hello and welcome the cross not we're all things are considered on here level counting the cost and charting the future when the pandemic appearing to recede it is time to assess the economic damage how has the crisis changed the global economy and 3 if there's going to be a recovery well crime will be and are there are lessons to be learned.

in the global economy i'm joined now by us and we in new york she is author of will china's economy collapse and what the u.s. can learn from china and in ankara we crossed the road. there is he is a professor of econometrics as well as the president of the foundation for international economic research and. process rules in effect i mean he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate what you're going to annan in new york as i said in my introduction and it appears that the pandemic is receding and globally though individual countries still have some serious issues but now is coming in the next phase of this crisis and figuring out the damage that has been incurred and how to move forward and you know in preparing for this program there are all wild estimations out there you know the l. the you all of that. there seems to be no consensus though there seems to be it seems to be politically driven depending on how much you.