from protest to prayers the 1st memorial for george floyd is held in minneapolis after his death ignited a global reaction to racism and police violence also ahead. of . the common catalyst with race based economic inequality considered a prime driver of today's protests. we revisit similar scenes from when the occupy wall street movement grew a decade earlier. also coming up on the program criticisms leveled up the european commission for classifying 19. 2 workers

a move designed to let businesses lessen safety issues in the workplace. or in norway over a new memorial at the scene of a terrorist atrocity in 2011 locals claim it's invasive but survivors say it's a fitting. i don't want to make you more. people who don't want to remember to remember every single day. one minute past 8 am in philadelphia 10 pm in brisbane 3 in the afternoon right here in moscow this friday june 5th welcome to r.t. international. days of. turn to sign a trip. the 1st memorial has been hell for george floyd whose death of police has

led us society to question its racial a level not seen in years mourners stood for 8 minutes 46 the time during which. knelt on mr floyd's neck ultimately choking him to death on the chapel to pay their respects. continue to come out in cities across the country in mostly peaceful protests. that i. now want to show you some of which have been going to run the world this past few

hours new york state a 75 year old man was hospitalized after being aggressively shoved by a police officer causing him to fall and hit his head on the ground. here where enforcing the curfew when. 2 officers have since been suspended without pay their police department's version of events reported locally saves them on trip and his own. racism and police brutality here at the heart of the unrest many agree about the capitalist poverty and economic inequality high profile protests against been simmering since the occupy wall street movement remember that emerged the but a decade ago now i must give up my pen has been. looking into. city after city has

erupted in anger and protest after the killing of george floyd it started with an unjust and tragic killing by police much like events in baltimore in ferguson however it's pretty clear that now the protests have an economic component take a look at what's happening in soho beverly hills and other high end shopping districts thank. you thank you thank you on the militarized streets one chance has caught on tape all right ok ok ok it's got a familiar ring to it one can flashback 9 years to occupy wall street. occupy wall street was about mass unemployment it was about bias among courts and law enforcement and a lack of accountability among the powerful in the united states economic

inequality is hitting the african-american community harder than ever the rate of coded $1000.00 infection among african-americans is much higher on august billionaires have gotten through richer amid the pandemic the unemployment rate has risen to 20 percent and that disproportionately affects african-americans not surprising that the sentiments of occupy wall street are peeling right now thanks right guys. thank rate rise. by thanks i think i could see he was like out right guys thanks he's watched the mike the scene outside i haven't changed very much sense that my hair was certainly a lot longer and i was among the demonstrators taking it all in we need to design our own blueprint and we need to start implementing it in the streets parallel.

between the 2 movements one primarily white the other primarily african-american cannot be overlooked if the similarities were not striking and now take a look at the fact that the george floyd protesters just had a standoff with the n.y.p.d. with mass arrests taking place on a bridge connecting brooklyn and manhattan talk of. ok the now to be fair the police are dealing with a lot more street fighting and looting than they did during occupy wall street but o'dowd the u.s. was not 100 percent peaceful either and in both cases the response to the protesters has been pretty heavy handed repression. the

fuck up. the. fact that. we found out many things it's like a movement and it's a movement that if you don't put it down it will get worse and worse this is like occupy wall street it was a disaster in 21 day somebody said that's enough and they just went in and wiped them out and that's the last time we ever heard the name occupy wall street the point of view of the of the government and the parties is a very obvious turn of events when people are beginning to focus on the neo liberal power configuration and the failure of the economy to be able to provide the basic human needs this is not just about george floyd that of course was the

trigger but thousands of people were in the streets in the streets because they have received their lives just like george floored me very little so there's a real anger in the population in the jungle people out there in the streets of the out there because they're beginning to make certain connections and those connections are way beyond anything called just is just for this one individual george will. as well as the police armed citizens are portrayed in the streets in minneapolis after stores were looted and people attacked beer scene standing guard on street corners outside shops here and say they were there to protect the community. but what we're doing here is we're protecting them trolling our neighborhood after the riot started out and south of minneapolis we have a conscious decision while the police were handing out over there that we were

going to come together as well as many of our community and protect our buildings here and protect our families on our show that we've lost one building sense of this all started i came out here because it's about damn time that. you know guys like me guys you know would be viewed as just a heavily armed redneck and stuff like that is good with fellow citizens regardless of race regardless of whether we are in the same local community or not it's time we stand together. donald trump's former defense secretary slammed the president's hard line response to the nationwide rallies over george for the death james muftis accuses mr trump of dividing instead of uniting the nation r.t. america hosts. tyrrel bonjour discuss the extraordinarily candid remarks. rings so hollow to me when you have a secretary of defense and a general former general who essentially was carrying out

a war that was never approved by congress that led to the deaths of millions of people across syria and who wanted to remain there and continue to fight wars in syria and across the middle east this is hardly a man of peace who is making these statements the mainstream corporate left in this car in this country you know always seems to forget you know i mean look of it they're the ones who elevated david frum and the you know other neo con types from the bush administration just because they agreed with them and going after donald trump so though i hate anyone just that they can attack their opposition in this case donald trump and the republicans the republicans would do the same thing you know that's the problem with the 2 party system in this country is that they have very short memories when it comes to who's throwing stones and who's throwing bricks to essentially have our 2 parties at the same foreign policy view which is that any country around the world where we can bomb we probably should and it's certainly the those countries in the middle east what rings hollow to me is that

you have all these folks across the country right now who are talking about black lives matter and that and certainly they do but lives in other countries matters well and what you're not going to hear any politician say is that people's lives in iraq matter or in syria matter given that they don't think that they genuinely believe that those people's lives are truly expendable and because they are not consistent in that it demonstrates that they don't actually believe that black lives matter either they simply think it is political expedience to say so but i think of the late great comedian george carlin one side the united states is very good at bombing brown people and clearly with the rise of black lives matter were also very good at oppressing brown people here at home so i think everybody has to be very careful with what they say and what stones they throw in this thing especially generals who led charges and foreign. entries are brought in that in the under the under the name of american empire. is joining in with the global reaction to police violence

a 2000 strong rally in the city of little was reportedly tear gassed by police on thursday videos are emerging online showing the police response to the protests with demonstrators lighting bonfires chanting slogans as well as sympathy for george floyd's killing the french have similar stories to tell and they claim officers are calling on published charlotte didn't speak reporter. with riots in the us and disco or tape from several racism within the police the french government is vowing to throw the book at any officer who exhibits the slightest sign of racism. we have to ensure that every fault can be some excess every would including expressions is investigated ruled upon punished and i'm compromising on this subject because the requirements we have for police officers who are wrong is precisely to go into the serenity of the work of

the entire police force i'm john berman. glad you think the middle class that that's a lot of adding fuel to the fire is vis a video showing a scene following an arrest in paris that many have likened to what's happened to do troy in the u.s. police in paris to speak the accusations saying it was a complicated arrest of an individual who was under the influence of drugs and alcohol the cry over no more has become much more vocal here in fronts over 20000 people gathered here on tuesday to voice their anger over actions like this and also the death of a black man while in custody in 26 in a down the true or a case his family say that is similar to george troy 2 stacks place fixation sparked days of violent protests you can.

you come. home to be on the they were put in choke homes adama took the weight of 3 policemen on him george floyd took the weight of 3 policemen on him they had the same words i can't breathe i can't breathe a cold breeds was the slogan many carried on placards in the protest here which had been forbidden by the authorities try or is family disputes medical reports that have exonerated the officers involved in his arrest pointing to an independent

report that they commissioned which states that he like floyd done to. this fixation the anger felt hate by protesters was clear and it wasn't long before that tension spilled over. the french government has been quick to react pointing out that france is not a racist country and shouldn't be compared to the us. there is institutionalized violence in our country i don't think we can say that there are incidents when they're at us committed by members of the police as the interior minister has always said the right investigations and when the sanctions with us are determined the government has also called for cohen keen to point out the protest of drawer is death was banned for health and safety not political reasons the protesters say

it's time france woke up to its own unspoken legacy of the peace and impunity because i think that those who want to say that the french situation is not comparable to that of the united states although she wants to stifle the struggle for justice and they are supporters of the system those who do not want things to change but those who want things to continue with them but if you want as has been the case for 40 years it is a systemic impunity the police and john daunt when it comes to the inhabitants of working class neighborhoods. rallies against racism and police brutality common place here but to see these protests with the see if i was innocent thousands of people is considered by some to have been a watershed moment and the anger that was spilling out hasn't yet it seems being quelled charlotte even ski r.t. paris. live from moscow this is r.t.

international coming up pastor being told to stay. away from work because of a potentially deadly virus to make it easier all employers the european commission says it's so. sick and can't. seem wrong. to shape. and it. equals betrayal. when so many worlds apart. choose to look for common ground.

we go to work. straight home. back with our t. now we have all the message driven to us about the threats of infection from cruel the virus but the european commission is coming in for criticism for classifying covert 19 as only a mid level menace to workers it's all part of getting businesses moving again the

us or europe correspondent peter over explains. if you cast your mind spock just a few moments the main message coming out of the view is that the cautions with the number one priority here in europe we are heavily affected by the virus. the borders of the entrance of the european union. will be closed. without a valid risen travelling in and out of the country will no longer be. the risk level has risen from moderate to high hateful people in the european union now top brussels made the decision to retire coronavirus as they made level threats now while that doesn't make the virus any less contagious what it does mean is in

the eyes of the e.u. commission the threat posed to workers by covert 19 is now categorized as not being very high the existence so absence of prophylaxis cannot be considered as a standalone criterion employers will still have to provide this stuff with a safe working environment when it comes to protective equipment and social distancing but the change in wording leaves business less open to legal action case of on the job infection the move comes as some employees in germany are already far from happy with the conditions they have to work in 00000. 00. people came out and worked every day from the early dawn with no medical masks covering the amounts crammed in baskets

sometimes they would give us that sometimes they would 'd at the same time they were being insulted while in the field and treated. i don't know who is not even from the peak they have their designated payouts 400 furious. the socialist and democrats group in the european parliament are buying this move by the u. commission we strongly oppose a decision by the commission to classify code 19 only as a mid level hazard covered 9000 is the biggest help to challenge of our lifetime p.s. may well overturn the move when it's put to a vote in parliament the european commission insists that they've made the right decision after consulting with scientists at the world health organization but that doesn't fly with the latest messaging from the w.h.o. when it comes to the seriousness of the risk the e.u. labels this a level 3 virus meaning as usually affective prevention or treatment available while the w.h.o.

believes there is no cure in the forseeable future or drugs either as of now and is no evidence that any drug actually reduces the mortality in patients who have called it 19 and in fact it's an argent priority for all of us to do the needed studies to do the randomized clinical trials births even the president of the european council has said the decision how does much to do with the economy as they ever have to do with health everything should be done to reach an agreement before the summer break our citizens and businesses have been heavily impacted by the pandemic bumi targeted relief. the european union has taken a pounding from the corona virus and tens of thousands of families of hearts of bury loved ones ultimately this comes down to finding that point where by saving the economy from an irreversible decline always concerns over public health.

in my opinion there is no so. thing is what the european community says is the medium level threat of the virus nobody can say so we don't know this wireless it's been 6 months we don't know the behavior of this wireless it's contagion how develops and we don't have a treatment for it either as such this is a political and financial measure more than anything the you commission has labeled it a 3rd category managed which is to say low danger i have doubts about it time will tell the heat and the quarantine measures imposed in each country have led to a certain overall improvement and this by the senator in conditions of peach country at any moment complications main merge and the tide will turn. 10 other story we're following today a memorial to terrorism victims and norway is expected to open next year on the 10th anniversary of a far right atrocity there but there's been fierce the spirit in recent years with

locals calling the memorial invasive saying it will only reopen old wounds. yes there is outrage shame that norwegian government is still struggling. at least fire 6 years to get a rational. and

there was a great resistance among the local people is it was specially momos who live close to the king who are afraid that the memorial will bring an ongoing reminder of the tragedy that the just for he making the case will be a place for the whole world to cheney's people glory of people and russians will be calling here as they bring in all the tourists coming to us every time it was a way to risk our guarding got strategy and now it's starting again i. think i think that the decision is unilaterally made by the states the neighbors opinion has not been heard at all. we're now talking about making the memorial site smaller to make it less to make it more of a program i don't want to make a mark up to. make people want to remember to remember every

single day this happened this afternoon everybody. this. is just not a pressing issue that's just not a big enough market. accessible should be able to be remember in. a yemeni journalist who was often a contributor for artie's ripley video agency homes being killed his home near the stricken port city of 8 and he was gunned down in what has been described as a planned assassination nabila hassan who was 34 leaves a wife and 3 children his widow is expecting their 4th child he was a finalist for britain's rory peck award in 2016 for covering the long standing war in yemen here are some of the video he filmed surviving a drone and. this

is the exact moment in fact not a drone attack happened appeal bravely faced similar challenges and threats during his war and helped to bring a better understanding of the yemeni conflict to the international community. turned out to mourn him saying prayers and cheering to celebrate his life and speak the bills coffin to his funeral he's now been buried in the head of the un's education and culture agency has paid tribute. i condemn the murder of newbie who has quite brave reporters like no one has done carry out important work keeping people in the amman informed and documenting the extreme conditions their country is experiencing they must be offered every possible protection. our thoughts are with the family well larry king is taking over broadcasting judi's for the next hour he'll be here with politicking and moments old sore reminder lots of content always being outed on our social media channels don't miss

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with. one of my being arrested for a response from me and. that is just their little world to establish they develop just us against them until. a long history of 2525 years as. i had to shoot someone holding you close but. there is a corruption inside of the police well that. is you all media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

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