if the getting to the can do look at the way i. see the guy yes. the. yes. thank you. thank you thank you. so night of unrest in minneapolis to the police station torched by protesters and fury about the death and police custody of a black man to break the cross the united states. france will further relax its lockdown starting during the 2nd easing restrictions on cafes parks and travel inside the country. and a new study shows the surge of prescriptions for antidepressants in the u.s. with doctors raising the alarm about the risks of addiction.

to. a very warm welcome to you 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 protests over the death of george floyd while being detained by minneapolis police have raged for a 2nd or 3rd night late on thursday night a local police station was that on fire. it was. the police say protesters forced their way into the building and set it on fire personnel had been evacuated from the precincts before hand the city of minneapolis via social media said there were unconfirmed reports gas lines leading to the building had been cut it in fines of people to leave the area the protests calling for justice for george floyd have spread from minneapolis to other cities.

i. i. i. i. r t's alexy are said ski has witnessed similar events unfolding in baltimore on focus and reports. it's somewhat of a groundhog day when it comes to the protests against police brutality in the u.s. turning very very violent now in this particular instance it was spawned by the killing of george floyd a 46 year old african-american man who was essentially killed by a police officer when that officer kneeled over his neck and the man suffocated

later died now for 3 nights minneapolis the city of minneapolis has been on fire there have been protests old around the country and you may ask yourself what's the reason for all this protests not just the killing but the fact that the 4 policemen who were involved in this unfortunate event in this death of george floyd. indeed fired by the minneapolis police but the people in the streets they demand that they should be in jail. nevertheless the situation is very serious it has reached the u.s. president and the authorities this attorney general f.b.i. and the attorney general to take a very strong look and see what's going 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 f.b.i. criminal investigators to the matter it's not just president sean penn the authorities who are reacting to this to this night my whole happening in minnesota

right now but also different celebrities justin bieber you know many many other pop stars and different socially important people are reacting to this the united nations even had their say on what went on in minnesota this time so it is causing a lot of attention but as i mentioned before this is all reminiscent of what i've personally seen in 20142015 even the last words of george floyd when he was killed by the police officer i can't breathe is a direct you know direct relation to the words said by eric garner another man killed in the hands of police that happened in new york city in long island in 2048 in july later on there was also a case of mike brown in missouri i went there in november 24th the whole town was on fire it felt really scary to be out in the streets and you know the buildings

what burning there was gunfire heard all across the region all the cross the place and even the fact that out the 2 notorious african-american gangs the bloods and the crips lines together in the streets of ferguson against the police that speaks volumes about how intense the situation was saying the same story happened in baltimore which is just next door to washington d.c. 2015 and i when i know the african-american man fred you gray was taken for a rough ride in the back of a police line so hot that he's had nearly fell off and that caused even scarier protests in the streets of baltimore i remember you know riding into baltimore and the firemen the policemen tell us do not go into the south in part of the city because. it is on fire it is on say we walked in with saul national guard in the streets at some point we were filming at these to camera and we even saw a national guard you know a national guard soldier pointing

a gun at us thinking that we were. bandits or anything like that so you know this is happening all over again you would think that by this point the police would think about their actions would try to prevent things like that from happening again but we can see it all over all over and it's golfing the country again we see protests in new york we see protests in denver we see a rest and attainments of people in those protests so you only have to wonder whether any lessons have been learned from those things happening 656 years ago. former minnesota governor jesse ventura told us that one it's difficult to look at minute minneapolis burning he understands the motives 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 got to remember as 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 fought 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 4 officers involved have been fired the one who was pending flow into the flow has been identified as derrick shave and he was previously investigated of another death

a fatal shooting in 2006 as one of the other shooting incidents in 20082011 the placement identified in the video is toto has reportedly been stewed in the paul say the excessive use of force activists michele gross told us the police think they can act with impunity. is essential that these that these officers face murder charges. and jack that will that not just today face murder charges but they should be arrested right now one of the reasons that people the community are so upset is because these 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 and the monitoring of man we will 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 is nothing going you know that there will

say no consequences for their conduct and that's kind of their usual feeling is they have a sense of their 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. the french government says it will further relax the country's lockdown starting june a 2nd it's been 3 weeks since the quarantine with both the east and things are looking up according to health officials the number of covert patients requiring intensive care has what do you think if a country of late shiela deepens here in paris explains what new freedoms that await the french. positive signs of progress said the french prime minister it with felipe as he announced the next phase of the de confinement plans before all of us who was at the zoo. during the 2nd phase to insist on 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 mile limit for which people can 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 boss 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 the next weekend c n n c it is 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. weave 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. take out food the lifting of self isolation and may the 11th does 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 for been 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 that 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 looking at. storm could feed 19 application this is a controversial app for mobile phones to help let people know if they've the news

something has had virus or for people to let the new government that they have symptoms it was passed by parliament tear into this week but some have suggested that this application is a step closer to total surveillance by the state here in france but the application will not be mandatory. we have wanted to provide the french people with an additional tool because the mobile apps code 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 a 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 lockdown but it is a country that is still far from ready to fly. demand for anti-anxiety and anti depression medications has risen significantly in the us a recent study suggests every 3rd american show symptoms of anxiety depression or both we heard from psychiatry is the other who explained this rise in numbers. the nature of the pandemic has increased people's desire to campaign is i had a depressed patients and that's because of the virus it's worry worry about getting infected and also financial worries we've got a 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 didn't approach isolation and kind of too much contact and both of those can create current plantings i crash the latest data indicates that the number of prescriptions is up significantly in recent months the number of antidepressant prescriptions alone both 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 olenka. really important for people to understand that medications in the benzo days of pm class like a xanax vallium caught up in are highly habit forming that's really just a general way of saying they're very subjective and patients even patients who are

taking those medications for bona fide has the id 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 as a lot of pressure on doctor to prescribe those who are to have this from satisfied 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 in order to try to get rid of any kind of uncomfortable emotions it's sort of part of american culture that one is coming away off the shelf way.

i mean the cost in charting the future we depend on the computing to proceed it is time to assess the economic damage is the price and change the game look comfy and

if there's going to be a recovery what kind it would be and are there lessons to be learned. welcome back nursing homes around the world seem to have been particularly badly hit by the pandemic registering some of the highest death rates in some cases it's believed that negligence has been a k factor one woman in the us told as what her family is suing the nursing home her father died. i lost my father due to negligence at a nursing home. will be 19 i need i have a lot of people that i know and dared to can my father so it's actually a nash did i know that that told me that there were times he could piece an 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 all writs face so those

were his last hours of being here the way said goodbye to my dad and in the last 3 elections on video. her father lived in glen haven health care in glendale california the administration that is say thanks to me proud of the song going service we talked to the families of tony who say that glen haven covered up its negatives 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 forbidden so at a time when. everyone needed protection and these are the most vulnerable

people they go to him said. fail to take appropriate measures to protect them or the opposite corrido they minimize the significance of the coronavirus and then tried to pretend it didn't exist. that doesn't work we need responsibility we need accountability so that we can protect the power in this doesn't happen again new york state saw over 6000 people die in nursing homes and adult care facilities the number doesn't include deaths in hospitals the state governor facing scrutiny for his handling of the crisis in 5th no nursing homes were forced to take in covert patients the obligation is on the nursing home to say i can't take a covert positive person i'm too crowded i'm too busy i don't have enough people the whatever the answer is doesn't matter is if they say i to take the person they take the person well that sparked a backlash as earlier in march the new york department of health released an

advisory all nursing homes and which it was stated that they should not deny residents admission in case of confirmed 1000 infection and this controversial directive over 4500 patients recovering from corona virus was sent to new york nursing homes but according to the health department the real number could be far higher we talked to monica last former lawyer and former candidate for new york city council she says nursing homes shouldn't be blamed for following guidelines. you know i think this is probably one of the worst decisions made in this and. it's not rocket science i mean why would you say vulnerable seniors actually reverse an od where it's you know it's an environment where the disease are all higher you know why would you do that. you know so i think that something that you know makes . you know craig pretty chair and i think people want answers and.

also it's really disingenuous because now you have 0 is claiming nursing homes. for following his own interactive you know if you're going to lose your license because you just made up your chances aren't. really going to. have to defend his country's health care system the italian ambassador to sweden has criticised the nordic countries state epidemiologist for saying stock home should have done better than italy we had really thought that in a modern the 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 covert 19 is not a football game nor the who's in france and the stunts or who for 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 among nordic states sweden has been hit the hardest in terms of deaths per 1000000 meanwhile travel bans across europe us that to ease by summer sweeps may end up being excluded from the so-called northern european travel bubble sweden's neighbors all declared strict lockdown measures in march and they're 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 fireball to open the border to sweden if it is not safe to open the border to sweden let the swedes stay out but love the germans come. norway denmark and i seem

to have managed to stabilize the situation in sweden the situation is more worrying when 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. the whole situation it's. kind of fair 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 prone and they're not as careful as we are stuck there were going on a lot of us i think it is important to take care of ourselves 1st and the number of those info to distil house with him i think it is good that we keep the border closed for a while. lose get on but i think about him i just talked to a friend in sweden yesterday and she told me that they're 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. gun shops in the u.s. 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 there's nowhere to practice the legal basis for firearm possession is rooted in the 2nd amendment of the us constitution however gun control the main one of the most divisive issues in american politics where the 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 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 inside firing 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 streets 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 are rather surprised when they can't just come in by one and walk out the door we had one then that the actual process to purchase a firearm could sit in there from a month up to 10 months i think a lot of people in the left are going to realize that it's a lot more hard to purchase a gun than he ever thought it was thanks for joining us here on out the international this friday we've got plenty more of the day's top stories coming up at the top of the.

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