reason for concern so that's why we're going to drill down on the story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly it's time to do news again. and aids consecutive nights of protests against police brutality in the united states in minneapolis where george floyd was killed the state's now to investigate police conduct over the last decade. and the risks of reporting the riots more than a 100 violations against press freedom in 3 days says a media watchdog plus a russian news agency reporter tells us direct about being fired. and gallagher. and they start shooting.

at them i mean this is a clear targeting of journalists and some other news too independent british investigators dismiss almost every allegation of war crimes leveled against u.k. soldiers in iraq citing we care but it. could also do for russia when so the 3rd of june 2020 live from our teams world news h.q. here in moscow is cover though in this hour to take you through those headlines you just heard in some more detail and 1st the big news in from america curfews and threats of a military all that said have done little to quell the bitter anger being felt across america right now which is witnessed 8 days and counting of protests over the police killing of george floyd in minneapolis the minnesota state human rights department know i was saying to it's set to investigate police conduct over the

past 10 years nationwide huge crowds ignored the stay home orders to continue venting their fury over police brutality. i. in washington 1600 extra troops have been deployed and military vehicles have been seen on the streets thousands of people have been risking arrest by defying curfew orders the white house has taken no chances the security cordons in the wreck today

outside their offices have reportedly resorted to tear gas and rubber bullets after protesters hurled bottles at them meantime a brazen attempt to the looting over on the west coast. crew was pictures new in this forklift truck was used to ram an electronics retailer in california up to 20 person a says in the area have sustained damage since monday officials are blaming roving gangs who are local they say new york now stores they're securing themselves to wooden hoardings and smashed windows now lined the streets of what would have been our prestigious shopping this bridge behind all that some are going further like in this liquor store in the state of illinois where stuff literally arming themselves next today kellam open and explaining why the looting risks erupting into something much more dangerous. here's one thing the protests against the tower.

however. by night the protests take a much more violent for. lyndall ism moving and attacks on business owners many see this as an extreme expression of economic inequality obert. by looting bothers people so much more than knowing that across the country black men and women are die the looting of america has been going on for over 40 is the copra saw the ultra rich though some business owners are even willing to stand with the looters also properties are always can be replace but loss of life so no they're fully upset with the looting don't think that looting is necessary. but i definitely feel like

something needs to be done you know to kind of protect everybody says a large scale looting 'd 250 buildings have been damaged in minnesota alone that prompted members of george floyd's family to call for calm not destroy stuff. on a 100 they don't know nobody i don't know why i cannot testify i will stop telling one of them this way off the. top of. her is enough about the violence breeds violence as the riots keep going the police response is gone as far as ramming cars and crowds amid this chaos business owners that decided to take their own security into their own hands in the most american way ok 0 ok 1 ok you write my. own you think i'm going to buy would you no no no no no no no the

authorities have been openly suggesting store owners protect themselves with us and if you try to break into their homes to still. to set fires i'm highly recommending they blow you back out of the house with their guns armed vigilante groups are now patrolling the streets this is a take a neighborhood bank cops are out here the 2nd risers you know we're the rest these are police saying we are all here they are 15 we are protecting our neighborhood are you doing all of this arrested for civil conflict across america. of course on everyone's over themselves this pictures taken from outside of russian restaurant in san diego in california well armed locals lined up to defend the premises the owner is among those who felt the need to be in the current circumstances he told to me earlier he told me about his experience 1st of all 'd 'd on saturday. heavy looting in the city of san diego it wasn't in our

neighborhood but it wasn't neighborhood which was pretty close source just maybe 6 miles outside of the down town city limits where you know the the the protests started peacefully and then they started burning buildings i am in a low city and it pains me to see this you see. young american young young black lives being lost or something stupid like this in the border and the fact that you know people are looking doesn't help the cause that's that's just my personal experience my personal opinion you know there could be. could be better ways to go about this and then robbing small businesses because these people have nothing to do with it. sounds like we're only burning large corporations or banks. they're breaking into a small businesses small jewelry stores and these people already. probably have no money after the 2 months of coronavirus and now that you know people could lose

their entire savings and. australia is calling for an investigation into the rough handling of a news team while covering the riots in washington a correspondent cameraman for 7 news was seen being assaulted while reporting live . but. right. now there are. people to talk about that they think oh well the press freedom watchdog the committee to protect journalists says there have been at least 125 violations against reporters during 3 days of the protests and also calculates around 20 journalists have been arrested another media watchdog estimates that around 90 incidents of involved attacks including tear gas pepper spray and rubber bullets in some cases indeed it's suspected that news crews have been deliberately targeted.

at. the. gate. agent that should take the. i'm sorry. of that. about l'arche out there you probably heard it was an american journalist on press she was working for the russian news agency sputnik little boy who described to us how officers opened fire despite knowing she was there to report on the it's. all that man has actually just like yes and sad and tragic and crass and i was holding it right or in it after and yelled and and that they start shooting me with a variety of stinger and i have been. on my side on my torso and

on my back and i also get hit with a rubber ball in my am and then this did not hesitate to use their right shields down to the ground and they also pushed me to the ground and i slid along as. all and had a lot of operations on my side they were very well aware that i was and this is a clear targeting of journalists many administrations united states government you know said about other countries that other countries don't have free press we are also concerned about the threats of violence against journalists which have a chilling effect on press freedom especially when they are not investigated or prosecuted we call for an immediate end to threats and for violence against journalists hope the rest of the world will follow our press freedoms and the great things we do in the united states what i as a clique variance from yesterday is that the us is all too willing to be willing to visit violence upon journalists here and to try to silence journalists here and i

start again it's other members of the past experiencing the same thing and more signs of the times marked rise in graffiti across the united states reuters a sprayed police cars walls windows and pavements you see in time again the target a c. a b. there it is it's a derogatory criticism aimed at the police and this next slogan also trending to it's another dig a other drug crime unit because rick sanchez says stretch police forces are really up against it right now. american politicians whether they're mayors or councilmen or senators or local officials or state officials or federal officials cannot get elected unless they say in their stump speech i will give you 10 more police officers for your city the next one i will give you 20 more police officers and i'm going to give them bigger guns and i'm going to give them more cars the days of when young children in america had people who help them not become criminals have

given way to a society where we almost encourage them to become criminals so then we can arrest them because after we arrest them we create another job not only do we have now more cops but now we can hire correctional officers the number of correctional officers the number of cops in america continues to go up and you know what's interesting you almost can't even put this on cops i know it's an easy week to feel horrible about police officers and be very critical of them but we've put those people in that situation right we've we've told them all we want you to do is go out there and arrest people america has turned into a militarization zone a police state and we've done it with each politician who we voted for who decided to take them into school budgets all over the world all over our country and shrink them down to almost nothing so they can create more space for more guns and more

cops and more cop cars why in the hell in the united states of america are our police officers wearing camouflage around us and in an army uniforms as if we were the enemy and that's a big part of the problem this we're the enemy and they're the authority. artie's very own rick sanchez now we want to bring you this too amid the tension the chaos the uncertainty on the streets right now there of course are some glimmers of hope to look at this one protester in california running up to a police officer to give him a hug. specially this time similar scenes to in kentucky in philadelphia this happened several officers kneeling in front of demonstrators again seen more of that and they were cheered and applauded in return i. so for now calm seems to be returning to minneapolis where the protest started actually banks reports next he's been to take a look. i am here at the minneapolis police 3rd precinct which for many is

a symbol of systemic racism once that disturbing video of officer daring children's advocate in george floyd surface many people became enraged and took to the streets and said that's a very precinct i believe trying to send a message to law enforcement that this is one death we will not get away with last night i attended a peaceful demonstration at the memorial where hundreds were in attendance i spoke to them about president donald trump's threat to send in more military national guardsmen and police if trump wants to bring the military we are going to bring our people and we are going to show that we are not scared of heavy machinery we look at our presidents our leaders and. if you're threatening the people and your people you're him and race everybody's looking at this is a black white thing i'll tell you the honest this is beyond or george fluid. this is an issue of mandy you know it's just not right the way they killed us you know

they sit in the military and this is a peaceful this is very very peaceful. to do is charge the. stuff over the womb most people say all they want is for the remaining 3 officers involved in floyd's death to be charged and for officer show bins 3rd degree charge to be moved to the 1st degree many others have stated similar and student demonstrators are expected to continue peacefully protesting throughout the week hoping that justice is served when family has announced that memorial services will be held this thursday it to remember has a life and legacy reporting in minneapolis i'm ashley being. well in new york congressman's unguarded feelings about the rest has gone viral after being unwittingly caught by a so-called veteran democrat representative eliot engel was recorded saying he wouldn't care about the police brutality and rest if he didn't have a primer to fight rafah. because to the upcoming election challenge well that 12

2nd clip went viral and so is political rivals race to condemn his remarks he did later backtrack insisting he does deeply care about the situation you know which way don't call to next looks at the blurred lines between political compassion and exploitation cheering nation defining events like this. long ago the u.s. fought a bloody civil war that broke the chains of african-american bondage but over 150 years later and the country is once again divided by race with growing fears that another great civil conflict could take place and the politicians are already drawing their camps on the one side trump is beating the drum of war and is ordering the military to step in i am mobilizing all available federal resources civilian and military to stop the rioting and looting to end the destruction an arson and to protect the rights of law abiding americans and as the president who

wants to be known for restoring law and order he also wants the naysayers to know that god will be voting for trump in 2020. 5. years or 3 that's right good is electoral rival joe biden finally awoke from his long media silence and recently went down to the protests in delaware to show his support for them and his campaign of course the only way to bed this crane is to turn all that anguish to purpose and as president i will help lead this conversation and more importantly i will listen by and support was echoed in an op ed by his old boss former president barack obama he added though that people need to participate in elections to fix the problem. eventually aspirations have to be translated into specific laws and institutional practices and in a democracy that only happens when we elect government officials who are responsive to our demands the waves of protests across the country represent

a genuine and legitimate frustration over a decades long failure to reform police practices and the broader criminal justice system in the united states right and obama was that responsible 'd government official. we can't forget that it was under the obama administration that we saw the rise of black lives matter for 8 years the united states had a black president and police brutality is still as bad as it ever was you could even argue that some are even more outraged about it now.

the democrats and the republicans have picked their sides and so to have the country's tech giants both twitter and instagram change their logos in honor of black lives matter you tube and other companies have made politicized tweets to show their support with all these different political interests all trying to wrangle the social unrest to their advantage you have to wonder who will come out on top and at what cost. so the truck that ministration the obama biden for this reason did better that's not really saying thank you very much that's not saying much at all human many of us were very disappointed with the obama administration as for mr feith when he was in the u.s. senate he was in many ways according to the new york times the market for said this

criminal justice system that has led to this task for me like him in a particular being and trust me it's unclear what will be the impact of these joint decisions when we would like to. but i would like to think that it's we are serving to describe it not just to the 50004 now i'm quite typical fashion in a horrendous way. a way for us shows there's been solidarity demonstrations from australia to argentina while in europe rallies have been taking place in britain italy sweden greyson the netherlands most have been peaceful but one rally in paris did descend into violence. i. find the ban on gatherings because the pandemic right now nonetheless thousands

still turned out to protest brutality by french police and also to in memory of a young black frenchman a damaged or a who died in police to tension back in 2016 a skirmish is broke out so right officers responded with tear gas projectiles and pepper spray. to tackle 1st.

rage and destruction fear and despair how has the united states found itself in such a state of turmoil growing income inequality systemic racism or at least 60. what is the difference between a protest and riot is it serious to say the us has become. this take a look at some other news now and so after noon the number of deaths in britain

from coronavirus could be worse than the headline figures suggest by may the 22nd the government statistics office put the number just over 40000 but when figures from health authorities and local governments around the u.k. were added in the number jumps to over 50000 fatalities the u.k. government's long been under scrutiny over its handling of the pandemic not least the higher owing toll the outbreak taken on care homes for the elderly almost 15000 residents are known to have died from covert 19 accounting for at least a 3rd of all registered deaths we spoke to charlie williams he lost his father to the disease at one facility in england. i asked him several times if this current lara's. in the 100 we was told there's not we're not father's health deteriorates in a lurch it off family and we were told suspects it covered 9 saying so often us bonds was and we can same they said we can't because it now

transformed the 1st floor twice lation unit and then now received in patients from the hospital we were absolutely shocked of hearing this we was never informed of it's a small lisa coming up it's s. he said they can't test him which we found dar they said no i will test them at the moment but we insisted he must be tested with be tested immediately and eventually monday a green frame to be tested a few hours later my father died a one day april 20th. so many sad stories were couldn't man a care home where vanity williams died says it followed all the official coded 1900 safety guide with charley williams 0 describes what happened as just one element of a major national scandal and says the government should act and fast.

british soldiers are unlikely to face legal action for alleged crimes committed during the iraq campaign more than a 1000 cases of being looked up by police and also the u.k.'s independent prosecuting authority but its chief has told the b.b.c. that all except one of being dropped citing a lack of evidence and its aim of investigators was set by the u.k. government to examine more than $3000.00 of british war crimes in iraq which included murder and torture the group had been in operation for 7 years before a key solicitor was sacked for misconduct and then the team a shut down meantime the war crimes court in the hague opened its preliminary examination and concluded the allegations did have real grounds by that time british troops in iraq had repeatedly come under scrutiny.

the british government wants protection for former soldiers and veterans against historical allegations a bill proposed 2 months ago would affect if we put a 5 year limit on bringing prosecutions over british troops actions abroad beyond that only exceptional cases with them be considered for investigation political analyst chris bambery believes serious war crimes shouldn't have any deadlines on reaching trial. i think there is considerable. material over this in iraq itself where it really is the occupation was itself a week on the iraqi stock at the hands of the occupying forces british and american and they themselves the this is the white war the united states of course is not

prepared to let its citizens and its service personnel prosecution sort of void it totally by bringing in this 5 year women it i think britain is begin could go the route of the united states and i would be concerned that that's a divergence in the station of peers of other european major one partners in other countries around the world serious allegations or war crimes can take a long time to surface or indeed the identification kourou if the war crimes are serious there should not be a limited period of time in which they are pursued and who is does not fit with united nations and that is the way that some of the world's top headlines been shaping up this wednesday the 3rd of june a reporter from moscow i'm kevin owen of course where all where on the t.v. unit is here an hour for now and as the day progresses so are our other anchors the cedars around the world for you to so from there and for me thank you for choosing r.t. international. we

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