8th consecutive months of protests against police brutality in the united states in minneapolis where george floyd was killed the state's to investigate police over the past decade. coming up on the program the risks of reporting the riots more than 100 violations against press freedom and 3 days say he's a media watchdog a russian news agency correspondent tells us about being fired. and they start shooting in iraq. have. i mean.

this is a clear targeting of journalists did all the news coming up independent british investigators. to every allegation of war crimes leveled against u.k. soldiers in iraq citing weak evidence. one minute. paulo 8 pm in melbourne in the afternoon here in moscow welcome wherever you're joining us from this hour this is our to international. curfews and threats of a military clumped on little to quell the bitter anger being felt across america right now which has seen 8 days of protests over the police killing of george floyd in minneapolis the minnesota state human rights department says it will no investigate police conduct over the past 10 years nationwide huge crowds ignored

this stay home orders to continue venting their fury over police brutality. i. this is washington d.c. 1600 extra troops have been deployed on military vehicles were seen on the streets . of people risking arrest defying curfew the white house is taking no

chances a security cordons been erected outside officers have reportedly resorted to using tear gas and rubber bullets protesters hurl. meantime a brazen attempt at looting over on the west coast. this forklift was used to run into an electronics retailer in california 20 businesses in the area have sustained damage since monday officials are blaming. on the east coast new york stores are securing themselves wooden hoardings smushed windows really lining the streets of shopping districts some are going further like in this liquor store in the state of illinois are arming themselves. through why the. risks erupting into something more dangerous. here's

one thing the protests against the taliban. by. your. own however by night the protests take a much more violent war. lendl is a moving and a tax 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 dying 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 count to protect everybody says a large scale looting 'd 250 buildings have been damaged in minnesota alone that prompted members of george boyd's family to call her home got this car stuck. on a 100 they don't know nobody i don't know why i cannot testify i was stuck trying to get up at this point off the. top of. her is enough about the by once breeds violence is 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 oh ok ok you run my. own you think i'm going to my would you no no no no no no no you thora

tease have been openly suggesting store owners protect themselves with guns 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 cops are out here because i can risers you know we're the rest either police and we are all here they are 15 we are protecting our neighborhood you know and all of this a recipe for civil conflict across america. well it's everyone's out for themselves though this picture was taken outside a russian restaurant in san diego california where armed locals lined up to defend the premises the owner is among those who felt the need to be armed in the current circumstances he spoke to us about his experience. first of all 'd 'd on saturday.

heavy looting in the city of san diego it wasn't in our neighborhood but it was a neighborhood of loomis which is pretty close to us 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 mellow 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 living doesn't help the cost 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. and it's not 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 become almost. another aspect to the unrest astri is calling for an investigation into the rough handling of a news team whilst covering the riots in washington a correspondent on camera man for 7 news were seen being assaulted while reporting live. right. now there are a. lot of. thinking oh oh. the press freedom watchdog the committee to protect journalists say there have been at least $125.00 violations against reporters during 3 days of the protests it also calculates that around 20 journalists have been arrested another media watchdog estimates that's 90 incidents involved a tux involving tear gas pepper spray and rubber bullets in some cases it's

suspected that news crews are being deliberately targeted. i. believe this. is a. case that's what they claim that it should be something like that. i'm sorry abed. i. may have just heard there the american journalist saying prayers she was working for the russian news agency sputnik near the white house. describes how officers reacted when she was there to report all of it. well democrats actually just like this and said. i'm trash and crass and i was holding

it right or and after and yelled i'm press and they start shooting me with a variety of stinger and i have been right on my side on my torso and on my back and i also got hit with a rubber bullet in my path and then this did not hesitate to use their right skills to push us down to the ground they also pushed me to the ground and i slid along after all and had a lot of abrasions on my side and 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 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 is it leaks serious from yesterday is that

the us is all too willing to be willing to admit that violence upon journalists here and to try to silence journalists here am i so again if i remember the past experiencing the same thing. more signs of the times a marked rise in graffiti across the united states where rioters have sprayed police cars walls windows pavements the target there is a c. a b. is a derogatory acronym the police while another numbered slogan is also trending right now it's a dig aimed at a. drug crime unit in r t america's rick sanchez say stretch police forces are really up against it. 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. i 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 additional 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 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. detention certainty on the streets right now there are some glimmers of light one protester in california run up to a police officer and gave him a hug similar seems to kentucky while in philadelphia several officers now in front of demonstrators she cheered. seems to be returning to minneapolis where the protest kicked off our team eric is . to take

a look. i am here at the minneapolis police 3rd precinct which for many as a symbol of systemic racism once that disturbing video of officer derrick show been located in georgia point 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 you 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 them in. terry 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 parents if you're threatening the people and your people you're a human race and that's a fact everybody's looking at this is a black white thing and i'll tell you the honestly this is beyond or george fluid

issue this is an issue of manatee you know it's just not right the way they kill us where. they sit in the military and this is a peaceful this is very very peaceful. to do is charge the police this will start all over the world most people say all they want is for the remaining 3 officers involved in floyd to 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 so dense demonstrators are expected to continue peacefully protesting throughout the week hoping that justice and served one 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 big. one new york congressman's guarded feelings about the unrest has gone viral after being on wittingly caught by a so-called hot mike veteran democratic representative eliot engel was recorded saying he wouldn't care about the police brutality on rist if he didn't have prime

ready to fight referring to his upcoming election challenge the 12 2nd clip went viral and saw his political rivals race to condemn his remarks and go later backtracked saying those deeply care about the situation of quarter looks now at the blurred lines between political compassion and exploitation during a nation defining event. long ago the u.s. for a bloody civil war that broke the chains of african-american bondage but over 150 years later and the country is once again. i did 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 and 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. every good night 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 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. to the truck the ministration the old bomb up by the administration did better that's not really saying that in the actual thank you very vulgar bus not saying much at all to keep in many of us were very disappointed with the obama administration as for mr feith when he was in the us senate he was

in many ways according to the new york times the mafia things that in this criminal justice system that has led to so this isn't a task for me you know blocking him in a particular thing and customs i mean it's unclear what will be to him produce joining us when we want to. but i would like to think that they are serving to discredit or mr trump who has her for quite typical sashing and a horrendous way. or

the. illinois. we go to work. straight home. so it seems wrong. but i. just don't. get to see. this day become educated and in gateshead equals the trail. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

hello again the number of deaths in britain from corona virus could be worse than the headline figures suggest by maybe 22nd the governments the to 6 office put the number at just over 40000 but when figures from health authorities and local governments around the u.k. are other then the number jumps to over 50000 fatalities u.k. governments long scrutiny over it's humbling all for the pandemic not least the hard toll the outbreaks taken on care of homes for the elderly almost 15000 residents are known to have died from covert 90 accounting for at least a 3rd of all registered deaths we spoke to charlie williams who lost his father to the disease at a facility in england. i see something this crew. in the room we was told there's not we're not father's health deteriorates it

a lurch it off family and we were told suspects it covered no i'm saying so often us bonds 1st and we can same place that 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 caught a test in which we found dar they said no i will test them a moment but we insisted he must be tested with be tested immediately and eventually monday it greed for him to be tested a few hours later my father by a one day april it's $10.00. the kind on manor care home where the new tate williams died things down and follow all the official covert

1000 safety guide. british soldiers are unlikely to face legal action for alleged crimes committed during the iraq campaign more than a 1000 cases were being looked at by police and also the u.k. military's prosecuting authority but its chief has told the b.b.c. about all except one being dropped citing a lack of evidence and nationally a team of investigators will set by the u.k. government to examine more than $3000.00 allegations 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 on the team was shut down meanwhile the war crimes court in the hague opened its preliminary and examination clued the locations did have real grounds by the time british troops in iraq had repeatedly come under scrutiny.

in the british government wants protection for former soldiers and veterans against historical allegations a bill proposed 2 months ago what effectively put a 5 year limit on bringing prosecutions over a british troops actions are brought beyond only exceptional cases would then 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 but there is in iraq itself where it

really is the occupation was itself a legal. iraqis stop at the hands of the occupying forces british and american and they themselves the this is the white war so 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 limit i think britain is begin could go the rule of the united states and i would be consulted that's a divergence in the station of peers of other european nature one partner as in other countries around the world serious allegations a war crimes can take a long time to stop it or indeed the identification who are away 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. asking the question what's the difference between a protest and a riot. to debating in the latest episode of cross talk ahead in moments.

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and welcome to cross talk we're all things we consider on peter labelle rage and description sheer despair how has the united states found itself in such a state of turmoil growing income inequality systemic racism or poison politics take your pick what is the difference between a protest and riot and is it accurate to say the us is becoming a failed state. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest r.c. maxwell and being next is the arizona director of the bloc conservative better ration as well as a brand ambassador turning point usa and in mclean virginia we have the brown and he is the founder and national coordinator of the movement for a people's army or actually cross. in germany. ok nick let me go to you 1st.

you told one of my producers in preparing for this program that you believe that the united states is is a failed state and the recent events of the last week or so are is is evidence of that explain yourself please go ahead. the reason is that in the response to this crisis pandemic we have had a government that got convene within a week and marched past the cares act and what was that it was a multitrillion dollar bail out wall street and big corporations did not in fact dressed the actual problems that were or before the crisis you had 80 percent of americans they were living paycheck to paycheck less an i phone or dollars in savings for more than african-americans and now you're telling them that they're supposed to live or to kill or neither or it's american without any any income so that they can out of.