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. 8 consecutive nights of protests against brutality in the united states in minneapolis where george floyd was killed the state's to investigate police conduct over the past decade. the risks of reporting the riots more than 100 violations against press freedom in 3 days a media watchdog a russian news agency correspondent being fired out. and they start shooting you. have. this is a clear targeting of journalists. in other news independent british investigators

this miss almost every allegation of war crimes leveled against u.k. soldiers in iraq citing weak evidence. lie from moscow this is r.t. international my names you know neal and 30 minutes of news and views start. curfews and threats of a military clampdown have done 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 the partment say as it will no investigate police conduct over the past decade nationwide huge crowds ignored the stay home orders to continue venting their fury over police brutality.

let's bring you to washington d.c. where 1600 extra troops have been deployed on military vehicles seen on the streets of people have been risking arrest curfew orders the white house is taking no chances security cordons being erected on its officers reportedly resorted to using tear gas and rubber bullets for protesters hurl. meantime

a brazen attempt at looting over on the west coast. this forklift was used to run into an ally troll x. retailer in california up to 20 businesses in the area have sustained damage since monday officials are blaming roving gangs who aren't local. and in new york stores are securing themselves wooden order smashed windows lining the streets of prestigious shopping districts some are going further like in this liquor store in the state of illinois we're all making themselves up and takes us through why loosing risks erupting into something more dangerous. here is one thing he says the protests against police brutality. i. however. i night the protests take a much more violent for. lyndall

ism 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 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't be replaced but loss of life so no they're fully upset with the looting don't think the looting is necessary. but i definitely feel like something needs to be done you know to count up protect everybody says a large scale looting 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 in this co-op stuff. right now. because i don't. think it's enough about the buy 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 ok ok you run my. own you think i'm going to be i 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 you think you can rise or you know we're the rest either police and we are all here they are 15 we are protecting our neighborhood this is how you do and all of this a recipe for civil conflict across america now everyone's out for themselves though this picture was taken outside a russian restaurant in san diego california where army local to lined up to the fan 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 was pretty close to us just maybe 6 miles outside of the 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 piece which you see. young american young young black lives being lost for something stupid like this been avoided and the fact that you know people are looking doesn't help to cost us that's just my personal experience my person would be and 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. or breaking news to small businesses small jewelry stores and these people are already. probably have no money after the 2 months of coronavirus and now the people could lose their entire savings and become almost. well let's take you through another aspect of the own rest currently developing a stream is calling for an investigation into the rough handling of

a news team while covering the riots in washington a correspondent on cameraman for 7 news were seen being assaulted while reporting in. began to read right. now there are. people trying to write a letter saying oh the press freedom watchdog the committee to protect journalists there are being at least 125 violations against reporters during 3 days of the protests it also calculates that some 20 journalists are being arrested another media watchdog estimates that iran 90 incidents of involve tear gas pepper spray and rubber bullets in some cases it's suspected that news crews are being deliberately targeted. i.

hate. to hear what they say that shooting something like that. i'm sorry. i. know one of the last shots you may have just heard there are american journalists saying press she was working for the russian news agency sputnik near the white house and describes how officers reacted knowing that she was there to report all of it. as actually just like essence that i'm trapped and crass and i was holding it right or and after and yelled i'm mad and 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 got hit with

a rubber bullet in my past 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 have a. corporations on my side they were very well aware that i was passed and this is a clear targeting of journalists many administrations united states government have 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 i hope the rest of the world will follow our press freedoms in the great things we do in the united states what i physically experienced from yesterday is that the us is all too willing credibly willing to visit violence upon journalists here and to try to silence journalists here am i start again if not other members of the press experiencing the same thing more signs of the times

a mark rise in graffiti across the united states where rioters have sprayed police cars walls windows on pavements the telling a c. a b. is a derogatory acronym aimed at the police while another numbered slogan is also trending right now it's a dig aimed at a drug crime unit or to 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 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 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. rick sanchez well amid the tension sound on certainty in the streets right now there are some glimmers of light one protester in california run up to a police officer get similar scenes in kentucky and. alpheus several officers knelt in front of demonstrators who cheered. for the. i. seems to be returning to minneapolis where the protests kicked off r t america's asleep angst has been to take a look. i am here at the minneapolis police 3rd precinct which for many of us 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 you will not get away with last night i attended a peaceful demonstration at the memorial where 100010 didn't 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 with your people your you mean race everybody's looking at this is a black white thing. 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 in charge and for officers 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 big. affecting the political world too the own risk new york congressman's on guarded feelings about the all rest house go viral after being unwittingly caught bicycle hot mike it unfolds veteran democratic representative eliot engel and he was rick. horded saying he wouldn't care about the police brutality arrest if he didn't have a primary 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

parked truck saying he does deeply care about the situation double quarterbacks know of the blurred lines between political compassion and exploitation during nation defining events. long ago the us 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. if.

there were 3. good is electable 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 bad this crane is to turn all that anguish to power 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 a 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 jobs. 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 what cost compared to the trouble of ministration the obama by just this recent did better that's not really saying thank you very much that's not saying much at all to keep it and 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 fixer of this criminal justice system that has led to task like him in particular being and trust

me it's unclear what will be to impact produce join. us when we get lucky. but i would like to think that they are serving to discredit the mr top who has performed quite typical fashion and a horrendous way. all the way from u.s. shores there helping solidarity demonstrations from australia to argentina while in europe rallies have been taking place in britain italy sweden greece and the netherlands most have been peaceful but a block of lives mother rally in part of the send it into violence. but. i think. defining a well known gatherings because of a pandemic follows an still turn dollar to protest brutality by french police it's

was in memory of a young black frenchman adama troll who died in police detention in $26.00 skirmishes broke up riot officers responded with tear gas projectiles burst. he took millions of years of evolution to get to this place of a set of elected. me to become a man. that. millions of years of work to give you this big brain which functions with this many. most human beings are suffering what is

a magnificent machine human being to visit him an effective machine. seems wrong. just don't call. me. yet to shape out just because that's ok and in the game equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. just coming up to 23 minutes into the program welcome back some rather disturbing

figures now the number of deaths in britain from chroma virus could be worse than the headline figures suggest by may the 22nd the government statistics put the number at just over 40000 but when figures from health authorities and local governments are run the u.k. or other then the number jumps to will 450000 fatalities the u.k. government's long been under scrutiny over its handling of the pandemic not least the hard toll the outbreaks taken on care homes for the elderly. 15000 residents are known to have died from covert accounting for at least a 3rd of all registered debts we spoke to charlie williams who lost his father to the disease of a facility in the. us. in the room we was told there's not we're not father's health deteriorates it

a let it off family and we were told suspects it covered no i'm saying so 1st bonds 1st and we can same they said we can't because it's now transformed the 1st floor to isolation unit and then our receiving patients from the hospital we were absolutely shocked of hearing this we was never informed of is a soul lisa coming habits s. he said they can't test him which we found zaki they said no i will test them at the moment but we insisted he must be tested with be tested immediately and eventually monday green frame to be tested a few hours later my father by a one day i call it 10. they. care or for a new thing williams died sais that it followed all the official code but in 1000 safety guy charley williams though described his father's case just one element of

a major national scandal unsafe the government should act. you know we have no doubt is government is responsible full of negligence manslaughter of my father we have no doubt this is why we have to stop the official complaints and really drive to follow those complaints through this is only a small part of the national scandal here in the u.k. where our government has sanctioned all those homes to take him. issuance of not been tested. hundreds and done we have no doubt this is how our father. or khalid 19 my father being this is something that has to be so to my father we are stunned as is many many of the families that

. have contacted me now don't. it's another of the headline stories this hour british soldiers are unlikely to face legal action for alleged crimes committed during the iraq campaign more than a 1000 cases were being looked down by police and also the u.k. military's prosecuting authority but its chief has 'd told the b.b.c. that all except one being dropped citing a lack of evidence and nationally a team of investigators was set by the u.k. government to examine more than 3 thaws an allegation of british war crimes in iraq which included murder and torture the group been in operation for 7 years before a key solicitor was sucked for misconduct on the team was shut down meanwhile the war crimes court in the hague opened its preliminary examination and concluded the allegations did have real grounds by about 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 effectively put a 5 year limits on bringing prosecutions over british troops actions abroad beyond the only exceptional cases would then be considered for investigation political analyst chris bambery believe 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 felt that the occupation was itself a legal iraqi stop at the hands of the occupying forces british and american and then themselves the this is a whitewash 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 big a good dose of the rule 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 clue 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. well love is the way the midweek news update is shaping up for your up to the minute stories quite literally our twitter page has you covered well

worth some of your scrolling time today live from moscow this is art international . i know to you know crow. is no shots. actually just felt. in the well is dry no one. points your thirst for action. in 2008 there was the global financial crisis and the solution was not to reform the banking system to stop the crisis from repeating again the solution was here's

a bigger credit line to the worst banks in america to do the same thing but much worse and we said we predicted within 10 to 12 years there would be a repeat of the 2008 crisis but much bigger a much bigger scale something saqlain what's happening now. unbelievable. shocking. this is not a video game the average us citizen is over 10 times more likely to be killed by a police officer then by terrorists.