from protests to prayers the 1st memorial for george floyd is held in minneapolis death ignited a global reaction to racism. in the program. the list with race based economic inequality considered a prime driver of today's protests across america we revise it similar scenes from when the occupy wall street movement grew a decade ago. also ahead on the program criticisms levelled at the european commission for classifying. only a mid-level threat to workers move into business is ease safety measures in the

work. in norway over a new memorial at the scene of a terrorist atrocity in 2011 locals claim it's invasive and haunting but survivors say it's a fitting. i don't want to make you more people. people who don't want to remember to remember every single day. live from moscow this is r t international my name's you know neal i'm 30 minutes of news and views start. days. turned to silent tribute the 1st memorials being held for george flood whose death the all of police led us society to question

its racial divide a level not seen in years mourners stood for 8 minutes 46 the time during which an officer knelt on mr floyd's neck ultimately choking him to death hundreds were outside the chapel too to pay their respects continue to come in cities across the country in mostly peaceful protests. and let's bring you to new york state where a 75 year old man has been hospitalized after being aggressively by a police officer causing him to fall and hit his head on the ground.

and right here were enforcing the curfew when the 2 officers have since been suspended by the police department's version of events reported locally say as the month trip. of his own. a while racism and police brutality are at the heart of the unrest many agree that the cuff list has been poverty and economic inequality high profile protests against the been simmering since the occupy wall street movement emerged nearly a decade ago and scale up and breaks down for us. 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 and ferguson however it's

pretty clear that now the protests have an economic component take a look at what's happening in soho that really built and other high end shopping districts thank. you thank you thank on the militarized streets one chance has caught on tape all right all right 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 thank god for the right price. rise. was. wrong. thanks i think i could say was i right guys thanks is what the my decision was i 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 parallels 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 i. think a. 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. think of 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 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 flight george floored me look so there's

a real anger in the population in these young people out there in the streets of the out there because they are beginning to make certain connections in those connections that are way beyond anything called just is just for this one individual george will. as well as the police armed citizens are patrolling the streets in minneapolis after stores were looted and people that they can be sitting down the garden street corners and side shops and say that they are there to protect the community. but what we're doing here is we're protecting them trolling our neighborhood after the riots started out in south 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.

guys like me guys that you know would be viewed as just a heavily armed redneck and stuff like that do it with fellow citizens regardless of race regardless of whether we are in the same local community or not it's time we stand together. will heighten tensions and political spirits as well donald trump's former defense secretary has slammed the president's hardline response to the nationwide rallies over george floyd's death james mattis accuses mr trump of dividing instead of uniting the nation are to america who spends tyrrel ventura 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 they'll elevate 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 in certainly they do but lives in other countries matter as well and what you're not going to hear any politician say is that people's lives in

iraq matter or in syria matter or in yemen that or 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 also very good of 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 in foreign countries abroad in the under the under the name of american empire. well moving away from america from is joining in with the global reaction to police violence 2000 strong rally in the city of legal was reportedly tear gassed by police on thursday videos are emerging a line showing the police response to the protests with demonstrators lighting

bonfires chanting racism slogans as well as sympathy over george killing the french have similar stories they claim officers are going on punished charlotte devinsky reports. with riots in the u.s. and discord in france over 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. 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. glad you think the middle class that that's. adding fuel to the fire is this video showing a seeing

a following in arrest in paris that many have likened to what happened to it in the us police in paris just the accusations saying it was a complicated arrest of an individual who was under the influence of drugs and alcohol the cry of no more has become much more vocal here in france over 20000 people were gathered here on tuesday to voice their anger over actions like this and also the death of a black man while in custody in 2016 down the trawler a case his family say that is similar to george floyd dec spice fixation sparked days of violent protests.

it. was going to be on the they were put in charge comes down much 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 breathes was the slogan many carried on pluck out in the protest here which had been so bitten by the authorities or his 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 of this fixation the anger felt hey by protest as was clear and it wasn't long before that tension

spilled over. i. 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 when there are incidents when there are at us committed by members of the police as the interior minister has always said the right investigations and when the sanctions what us are determined the government has also called for cold. keen to point out the protests drawer is to ask was 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 unity because i think that those who want to say that the friendship to ation is not comparable to

that of the united states although she wants to stifle the struggle for justice they are supporters of the system those who do not want things to change but those who want things to continue she wants as has been the case for 40 years on the systemic impunity of the police and. when it comes to the inhabitants of working class neighborhoods. rallies against racism and police brutality coleman place here but to see these protests in the city of thousands and 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 show that deep in ski r.t. paris. this is our to international life in moscow coming up after being told to stay away from work because of a potentially deadly virus. to make it easier on employers the european commission

says it's not so bad i'll start the reports and we'll. you can't be both with yeah you. seem wrong. well just don't call. me. yet to stamp out this day become educated and engagement because the trail.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. 15 minutes into the program welcome back we've all been message drilled into us about the threats of infection from coronavirus 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 as our europe correspondent peter all of our reports. 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 traveling in and out of the country no longer. the risk level has risen from moderate to high hateful people in the european union now top brass have made the decision to reclassify 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 work 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 takes on the job and fiction the move comes as some employees in germany are already far from happy with the conditions they have to work in 00000. 0. people came out and worked every day from the early dawn with no medical masks covering the amounts crammed in baskets sometimes that would give us that sometimes there would be c at the same time they were being insulted while in the field and treated. i don't know who is not even from the greek they have their designated paying us 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 could be 1000 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 there's 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 it 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 bernie targeted relief. the european union has taken a pounding from the corona virus and tens of thousands of families of hearts of bury loves to warms 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 rippin 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 virus 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 u. commission has labeled it a 3rd category managed which is to see little danger i have doubts about it time will tell the heat in the quarantine measures imposed in each country have led to a certain overall improvement in this by the senator in conditions of peach country at any moment complications main merge and the tide will turn that. big debate over the next story a memorial to terrorism victims and norway is expected to open next year that's the 10th anniversary it will be of a far right across the city there but there has been fierce this spirit in recent years with locals calling memorial invasive a lot of other things as well saying that they will only reopen essentially all wounds.

it's outrage shame that norwegian government is still struggling. at least fire 6 years to get irrational. and there was a great resistance among the local people is it was specially mom those who live close to the case who are afraid the morea 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 at the beginning all the tourists. every time i was away tourists guarding the guts track and now it's starting again i. think i think that the decision is unilaterally made by the state the neighbors opinion has not been heard at all. we're now talking about making the memorial site smaller. to make it more of a program i don't want to make a mark up the whole point of memorials. make people want to remember to remember every single day this happened missed out on your neighborhood.

that's just not it's just not a pressing issue that's just not a big enough argument accessible should be already remember in stockholm and you. start. a yemeni journalist who was often the contributor for artie's ripley video agency being killed you know its side his home you know the stricken port city of 8 and he was gunned down in what's been described as a plan the sustentation nabila son who was 34 leaves a wife and 3 children his widow was 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's some of the video he filmed including surviving a drone attack. quite an incredible moment the exact moment in fact happened. bravely faced similar

challenges threat steering his health to bring a better understanding of the yemeni conflict to the international community. thousands turned over to mourn him seeing prayers on cheering to celebrate his life as the cardinal builds coffin to his family he's not been buried in 8 and the head of the un's education and culture agency has paid tribute. i condemn the murder of newbie who has. brave reporters like an appeal has done carry out important work keeping people in the amman informed and documenting the extreme conditions that countries are experiencing they must be offered every possible protection. for this hour all the big updates all the news they and lots more content besides can always be followed almost social media channels just a click away and in iran 30 minutes from the broadcasting range are taken over by r t u k the london team will take you through all the stories that matter this friday

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