violent confrontations with the police and buildings torched and looting across the u.s. as americans vent their rage for a 4th day over the death of police custody of george florey. about the start we've got to look at that every day don't want to give us justice and there's not going to be any priests we don't hold your partner accountable this is just a. thought from signs an executive order intended he says to protect freedom of speech online and twitter flanks one of his tweets says misleading and hides another for glorifying violence. or trying to strip hong kong with special status

as china imposes a new security law on the region designed to quell the protests there. hello and welcome it's 9 pm here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me the key erin and our top story civil unrest is spreading across the u.s. as anger over the death in police custody of george floyd escalates i mean looting torched buildings and protesters clashing violently with police the governor of the city of minneapolis where floyd died has announced the full mobilization of the national guard something that's not happened since world war 2. thank you thank you.

thank you. thank. you we've got we've got people that we've got to call. george boyd was playing on the ground all those other officers watched him die. on thursday night protest is that a police station in minneapolis on fire they demand to be a rest of the office to head neil dong floyd's neck before he died something that's now happened on a charge of 3rd degree murder the fatal arrest happened on monday 3 of the officers

stood by as floor he was pinned to the ground by knee for almost 10 minutes mr mayhem a friend of george floyd's family says people want justice people don't know but this is like our baby for police killing in our community you know we've been peaceful you know and right now we're just we're fed up this anger that's been well over 4 multiple deaths in our community so i was surprised by the reaction from this bit they tried to implement a curfew for us it worked at all we're still angry but still angry behind that you know there were more buildings that burned down after we found out about. the 3rd degree charge it's is is it was it was definitely intentional there's actually 4 officers that that that's involved in this crime and this act of murder we want to all to be charged with murder at least 2nd degree murder intentional because when

you sit there and you have down on a man's neck for 10 minutes you know and they're screaming to tell you that they can't breathe you know what i mean. you know you're intentionally killing this mean you know people don't know they both were you know big floyd was a bouncer at a same place where this guy was doing security at they know each other well you know this guy this is like his 3rd 2nd or 3rd homicide as a police officer as a police officer you know we want the right charges to be you know present. we're not going to stop. it's not going to stop you know you can you can implement all these curfews it's martial law all we're fed up this is and it has been well over 6 years and years and years of anger behind the senseless deaths you know we've been getting murdered in cold blood by the people that are supposed to protect us. you know and i mean. it's not it's not going to it's not going to end

well you. have a fence he said he's in the u.s. i've seen protests on the streets national gossiping deployed in various states now when weimann who's in brooklyn told us how new yorkers have reacted to events in minnesota. as we saw him last night the reaction was one of rage i think that's the best way to put it there were 2 major demonstrations that happened one of them was in downtown manhattan across the water. but the biggest one happened in brooklyn i'm currently in bed stuy this is where i live protesters thousands of protesters joined a march which began at the barclay sense a rino and then snaked its way through brooklyn's various neighborhoods around the night you could have police sirens helicopters there were multiple arrests there was several violent confrontation between the police and one of the of course how was reportedly thrown into a police van and several parked cars are also reports it's have been damaged we

don't yet know at this stage how many people were arrested the best estimate we have is that we have scores of people the rest of the moment certainly demonstrations across the country we saw more people being arrested for example we know now around $200.00 people arrested during a similar protest in houston. so this is a was a very very big night of rage for new yorkers engine instinct development that i just like to point out is that the transport workers union local 100 which represents times the workers here in new york they actually tweeted instruct saying their members not to work with the n.y.p.d. because there were reports that the n.y.p.d. had come in did n.c.a.a. buses to transport arrested individuals and. the transfer of his union tweets and saying that we do know what we have the n.y.p.d.

to work for and the people of new york so that gives you a really good idea of new york his reactions to the transport because siding with the people on this one certainly i mean we've just seen are going to quote just finished a press conference in which he essentially said you know they're going to go on protest at least make. sure you wear mosques very different reaction in pads to the governor of minnesota and certainly in kentucky and in recent developments he was so appealed to new york has better angels and encourage them to seek more peaceful forms of protest but you know this is something that follows like a and nights of rage almost a palestinian state in a flood of it has been raging around the country in d.c. we saw a protest as an attempt to storm the white house trunk tweeted saying that had they have breached the rules they would have been greeted with vicious dogs and on the next weapons to quote that's right they slide out in detroit a 19 year old male was killed he was shot dead when an unidentified suspect holed

up in a sports it's an itsy car and fired a shot at him we don't yet have a local media who this individual was and why they attempted to fly there was speculation on flights that this was a right wing individual acting against the protesters which has been very much orientated towards the last it down in atlanta and we saw 1000 protesters marched on the georgian state capital the georgia governor brian camp was actually called a state of emergency and has called for 500 state troops to be a sentence in the streets to try and keep the peace i've seen reports as well that he's likely to call for a curfew similar to what we have going on in minneapolis the moment of see they have the 8 pm custody some other cities where this just took a this is a big night now this is well so we had tens and the association as i mentioned earlier would see hundreds of people arrested in louisville kentucky there was

a large large protest movement of this of this also follows on from a march killing of an african-american woman by the police so people there extra angry if you want to put it that way and in l.a. we've seen reports of large demonstrations that police raid. palaces and oakland as well i've just so you stood around 1 am in the morning last night is demonstrations continued there was a gas being deployed against demonstrators. in the now former police officer who penned george floyd's down has been arrested he's also been charged with 3rd degree murder which is applied when no intention to kill is suspected but doing life now by nikki sutton the civil rights activist trained in legal matters thank you for joining us on the program now such as that show even is faced with charges of 3rd degree murder and 2nd degree manslaughter what if there's charges mean how many years in prison are we talking about. i guess it all depends. not enough

i know that that's the bottom line this isn't just something that everyone should have been charged for and this is something that absolutely the officer involved should've had a way higher charge and manslaughter it's actually so disrespectful while i was out last night at the protests just observing i was hearing people say manslaughter like people kept screaming about the charges and people are very upset and it almost feels like just another kick in the face again for our community expression here in minneapolis minnesota right now. people at the moment english i've been be locked up for life i mean do you see that happening. absolutely not i know that we did have a situation with a somalian police officer that was national knows he is a he was somali and so who is a black police officer minneapolis police officer he answered

a call in and of shooting a white woman who had come outside they called for his rights he ended up serving 12 and a half years for that crime this situation is way more severe than that and i'm not confident. expressive of being a white minneapolis police officer and i'm not confident that he's actually going to receive more time than that but do i think him receiving a life sentence with no possibility of parole is reasonable absolutely i think it's necessary what do you think has to be done to bring come back to the streets of the u.s. . there's going to have to be so many things done i'm debating with that internally right now i go from ok maybe now we all see and we can all just move forward but then i both maybe sometimes within destruction is creation and i keep on

repeating that myself and watching this process as i'm watching my city in stores and businesses being burned down i keep on repeating myself in destruction is creation and i'm hoping that maybe you with all of this will be able to create something new start. start over as much as you possibly can and maybe i'm hoping that some of these businesses that have been destroyed will be able to be bought back black for our community because that's very important and the divide financially economically income gap in minnesota for the black families versus white families they're on completely different scales so it's one of the worst places in the nation for african-americans to live as families that's on all of the lists from anywhere of being one of the top 10 worst in the nation for african-americans but a lot of times it's one of the top 10 best places in america. the highest highest

earning places but it's not for us and so i'm hoping that maybe this destruction will help level out and help bring us where we need to be in our own state and moving forward around the country because it's not just about minnesota i'm seeing atlanta i'm seeing all these other places and they're demonstrating and i'm hoping that they can create the same thing i'm hoping we can create which is the destruction and something new and something more positive and something fair and reasonable where we have equity 'd and assets and are able to inherit generational well so we can and this is some white supremacy that we've all been living and. minnesota's governor says of the excessive violence it's not just about floyd's death anymore. no it's absolutely not and it was never just about floyd's death it was lloyd's death was the icing on the cake cake the final straw for us i think a lot of us saw floyd stand and this is that i can't do this anymore it is inmates

needs here it makes me very emotional to talk about it so it's just we've seen this so many times i've had myself growing up and the young girl out here in minneapolis a 1000000 things i would get my phone fix their i would cast a check there i've lived over there. and so for me i feel like this could be anybody and i've seen how those families deal with us in that community i've also lived in clements and brooklyn park and seen how they deal with other people other communities it's not the same. there's definitely a difference in how the police treat black people and our communities in minneapolis versus how they treat people in the suburbs in minnesota so i understand a lot of people in the suburbs and in other places having a hard time understanding but i think that it's pretty clear what's happening this is not just about georgia has been happening for a long time we've been oppressed for 400 years over 400 years and we're struggling and we have this generation is not the generation just down and by god and marched

peacefully it's just not and i think that we're also seeing that across the world across the country all to see that now is that we are here and we are not going to be quiet about it and we are going to do what ever do right and he means that very to make sure that our children do not grow up and have to fight the same battle right now and i think that a lot of my generation is ready if this is a culmination of so many things like you say then how are things going to play out how it how is things going to come to an end. i think that's the question that we all have the question of the hour i think we're all trying to figure out how it's going to come to an end none of us are actually shore how this is going to come to an end what's going to happen next i know what i hope for i hope for change as i said i hope that we can create something beautiful build up our businesses. put black people the black community into ownership positions in minneapolis and across

the country with some new businesses are going to be able to be brought back and put together again i don't know specifically how this will affect but i hope that at the very least the next time an officer in minneapolis or anywhere else gets a little overzealous i know and i hope that he will think twice because they're not seeking it anymore and those actions will result in possibly having a city burned down welling forward our people are not sitting back and being this submissive it's just done and i think that you can look around and see that it's not so now i need to tell us. because that's on the civil rights activists paralegal thank you for your time. thank you so much. how many of the areas that have seen protests over george cloyd's death have also seen significant loosing. touch anybody comes by over the water we know that you feel welcome and hopefully

you know this will help so that they will come and destroy our program here. was. the right way to listen to it right if you don't. regard struck this farce we're going to go back down the river circle business moved around to the front but you got to see if you're going to do what you've got to do with. the merits the civil rights attorney representing george floyd's family described to us a long standing pattern of police brutality against ethnic minorities in the u.s. . america's the deadliest police culture in the modern world there is no nation on the planet that kills in the car so it's more of us people we are in a crisis position tony ben crump and i announced this morning that we are taking

these families the family of george floyd a model barry bianna taylor to washington d.c. and we want to discuss comprehensive police reform we're all spirit bringing this case before the united nations human rights council so that we can receive sanctions against the united states for its probation and continual denial for basic human rights to the african-american community. which right now are met our primary goal is to show to ensure that the appropriate charges move forward and so we are not satisfied yet 3rd degree murder is an appropriate charge it means it was an accidental killing it like manslaughter the the the partner charged they they levy if i get in my car i get a drug that only intend to kill anybody but it's reckless behavior that could result in somebody's death that's manslaughter this 3rd degree murder but when i apply pressure for sustained period of time to a critical area of someone's throat. that's and it's all about foreseeability it's foreseeable that that kind of action will result in death or bodily injury so

that's murder we're looking for speaking with the governor on behalf of the the family and encouraging him to activate the attorney general keith ellis to come in take over this in this case bring the appropriate charges and make the requisite arrest. when the family is very concerned about the safety of the public these people are standing up not only for george they're standing up for themselves is standing up for the community but they're doing so by standing up against begin one of the most brutal police forces on the planet and i don't mean minnesota i mean the american police force in general they only know 2 things incarceration and brutality and so they are concerned that when. interlopers come and break things and bird things that invites harm to other people's children they don't want to see that happen. protests have now spread beyond the u.s. border with people gathering near the u.s. embassy and berlin people are chanting slogans and holding signs with the phrase black lives lighter it's unclear yet whether the protest was authorized another

peaceful protest is being planned in london for tomorrow. political commentator and t.v. host karyn turk told us the tragic death of george floyd has been hijacked by left wing radicals and looters. now that the police officer has been charged with murder you would think that this would calm the situation down and certainly you know like most americans i'm hopeful that it will definitely that was needed and it's good that they found him and charged him but you have to ask yourself the question the track record of this particular officer was over looked again and again and again why was he allowed to be in that position and it's a very scary time for the people living in this city when they know that that was tolerated whether by law enforcement self by the mayor the administration the people that were in charge tolerated somebody with this kind of record being in that position and that's something that needs to be addressed so i don't know that it's going to combat rethinkers i think people are very upset right now but that

doesn't mean that they need to resort to violence and certainly looting and fires and things that are happening don't create change and i think turning this into something where we're allowing people especially these extreme leftists come in and start fires i think are actually feeding into a much darker narrative it's certainly not honoring this man who died so horrifically 1st and foremost we need to really be vetting these officers this man had a very terrible record as a police officer i think basically and logically there should be no reason with someone like that should be allowed to be a police officer let's look at that let's look at the basic facts you have to be qualified for the job we need to vet the people that are protecting us. the governor of minnesota claims some of the violence he's no longer about floyd in

this video you can see among trying to burn the american flag in los angeles when in atlanta news outlets c.n.n. so faced with a top spy rice's. you are not in the newsroom this is you know project you know christer job some people are laughing some people are videotaping or something on fire chris a firecracker anything got fired. you are right ok well the protest thought dominating global media coverage. and looks at how that coverage come paths with the protests in baltimore some years back. shocking footage murders the protestors breaking windows torching buildings and clashing with the police thousands of taken to the streets to protest against the recent killing of george boyd but police protests have spread far beyond minnesota all across the country clashes are taking place across american streets.

minnesota's governor tim waltz has declared a state of emergency i am answering our local leaders request for minnesota national guard assistance to protect peaceful demonstrators neighbors and small businesses in minnesota. president trump has found us to seize control of the media apparatus and says that there will be shooting if there is more looting the tweet was flagged and suppressed because twitter said it was before a fine violence these thugs are dishonoring the memory of george floyd and i won't let that happen just spoke to governor to mills and told him that the military's

with. any difficulty and will assume control rods when the looting stones the shooting stones thank you u.s. attorney general has been deployed to investigate the actions of the officers who took boyd's life i feel very very. badly it's a very shocking sight bill and i were talking about it before it's one of the reasons it goes here right now. because as you know we're very much involved and i've asked attorney general f.b.i. and the attorney general to take a very strong look and to see what went on liberal leaning american media as the player the killing of george bush and the protests that erupted and its aftermath it into a long after no police brutality racism and the government nor in the concerns of african-americans we do begin with breaking news we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world fires are still burning on the southside

of minneapolis after protesters took to the streets to demand justice for george cloyd how do you raise your children in this america today i'm not sure there is an answer necessarily although. you point to angela davis who said it's not enough to be non-racist you have to be anti-racist however the same media seemed far less sympathetic in 2015 after baltimore lit up in response to the police killing of freddie gray. in 20 the scene in stearns of the african-american community to be the last thing the american media was concerned about while artsy was covering the protests c.n.n. was covering a fancy dinner at the white house the streets of baltimore are filled with protesters everyone's wining and dining and this is happening 5060 miles away so you can't ignore that now. you can't ignore that.

and yet that it's important i do want to get to the red carpet da for us media finally got around to covering the protests that were trade simply violent ground clashing with the police showing the protesters to be more less violent hoodlums a handful of protesters handful of criminals and thugs. who tore up the place isn't it the right word so calling them thugs just call them they just call them at least 15 police officers have been hurt 200 arrests 144 vehicle fires that these are statistics local place are put out 15 structure fires there's no excuse for that kind of violence right so what changed why is u.s. media suddenly concerned about african-americans perhaps that u.s. president donald trump is why do you use being racist those protests back in 20

scene in baltimore did not fit the liberal narrative that iraq obama was leading us toward the post racial era i think if you look historically at the mainstream media and other things that have had. and they haven't reacted this way and it makes you wonder just why are they giving this so much coverage in the way that they are it's the angle of the coverage and i think like many i believe that it may have a lot to do with elections and the political narrative right now and that's incredibly wrong turning this into something where we're allowing people especially these extreme leftists to come in and start fires i think we're actually feeding into a much darker narrative it's not about this man's death and that's unfortunate it's a battle actions while many are deeply concerned about killing of an innocent man it seems that powerful forces are not afraid to push their own little. mop and artsy new york. beijing is threatening retaliatory measures against the

u.s. if washington doesn't stop interfering in chinese internal affairs it comes as china is moot china moves to impose a new security law on hong kong at a bit to quell unrest in the territory that has prompted donald trump to revoke the region special status. china has replaced its promise formula of one country 2 systems with one country one system therefore i am directing my administration to begin the process of eliminating policy exemptions that give hong kong different and special treatment my announcement today will affect the full range of agreements we have with hong kong from our extradition treaty to our export controls on do a use technologies and more with few exceptions more details on this story we're joined by our correspondent. as left at how big a blow is this loss of status for hong kong.

well this week protesters were shouting hong kong is not china we are special while waking up this saturday they face the bitter reality that in the eyes of the u.s. home homes not quite as special as it used to be because on friday president trump announce a series of punitive measures gates china including revoking such a trade privileges that hong kong has enjoyed almost 3 decades very few specifics were actually given but a pact i meet me it's an end to the trend of the treatment that has allowed the region to flourish as a business hub some of the key takeaways from friday the u.s. will now deny entry to chinese nationals suspected of having ties to the military and all up snooping on research being done in american universities and of course a fan favorite of the trumpet ministration sanctions will be imposed on those chinese

and hong kong officials that washington believes are enemies of freedom. the united states will also take this is serious steps to sanction p.r.c. and hong kong officials directly or indirectly involved in a road in the hong kong zone tanami and so just if you take a look smothering absolutely smothering hong kong's freedom our actions will be strong our actions will be meaningful. this all comes up to china agreed that a controversial piece of legislation that states the national security law and that's going to climb trees and terrorism ready anything to threaten national security beijing's new track triggered mass protests this week and culminated in the arrest of around 300 people and stateside the law has been lambasted. as.