well you. know as to. which your thirst for action. a 2nd weekend of racism protests tens of. the united states have been markedly more peaceful in contrast to the rioting and policing earlier this week. the mayhem on main street some of the early erupted into riots resulting in show business is being run socked in several states. the risks of reporting the riots more than a 100 violations against press freedom in 3 days media watchdog a russian news agency correspondent tells us being fired up. and yelled i'm

right and they start shooting in a barrage of stinger grenades i have. on my side of my torso this is a clear targeting of journalists. with the stories that shape the past 7 days on rival to the moment developments as well this is the weekly r t international hello and welcome you know me. from washington to l.a. and from philadelphia to chicago saturday saw america's big cities filled with protesters against racism and police brutality nearly 2 weeks after the death of george ford mostly peaceful scenes through our 2 alike earlier this week when crowds felt the full force of riot police and military vehicles patrolled us streets at least 11 have died during the protests and all 4 former officers present

when george ford was killed will face murder charges. in. coast to coast from small groups to streets filled with fury there have been protests throughout the week in all 50 states the national guard were deployed in iraq half of them curfews were imposed in at least 29 locations with demonstrators

throughout the week the scribing continued heavy handed policing as rioting and looting spread. from the days that i've been out the only time that violence erupts or gresham is shown is when the police have come out and shown force was struck and as i was trying to walk away. from the protests they began openly shooting rounds of tear gas rubber bullets into the crowd. there was violence by the police is a call made in the streets of jacksonville they resulted in the necessary use of tear gas we suffered from tear gas and all types of pressure and arrests in the

ones that i wish it were unjustifiable violence was coming from the state from the police. is that enough. they feel that no one cares. this is the only way to lash out at the system. they come from neighborhoods that there is you know economically deprived you know it's like you know you got to keep me low you going to. you know basically this system is merely on around the ugly side of the week's rallies house force businesses to take precautions wooden hording smushed windows no line in the streets of even the most prestigious shopping districts some looters went to extreme measures this forklift was used to ram an electronics retailer in calif. are going even further with their security measures with stuff arming themselves up

and takes us through why the looting risks erupting into something more dangerous. here's one thinks of the protests. against police brutality i. was sure. however by 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 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't be replaced but loss of life so no definitely 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 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 telling one of the screw off stuff. because i don't. trust us enough about the violence breeds violence and the riots keep going the police response has 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 write my. own you think i'm going to my would you no no no no no no no the authorities have been openly suggesting store owners protect themselves with guns and if you try to break into their homes to still. set fires. highly recommending they blow you back out of the house with their guns armed vigilante groups are now patrolling the streets this is how you take your neighborhood back here the 2nd risers you know we're ready for the rush these are police and we are up here they are 15 we are protecting our neighborhood. and all of this arrested for civil conflict across america and just continued on the point it is clear that some communities have been very much at all to with each other over the street rallies this is a peaceful march in the state of indiana monday no sign of aggression but the route was lined with locals armed with rifles watching as they protest by it's been

happening elsewhere to. come according to state saturday night right. stansell yeah. you guys are already mad they play you know what we're doing here is we're protecting them trolling our neighborhood after the riot started out in south minneapolis we have a conscious decision while the police were hammering out over there that we were going to come together and protect our buildings here and protect our families on joe i came out here because it's about damn time. you know guys like me guys that you know would be viewed as just a heavily armed redneck and stuff like that good with fellow citizens regardless of race regardless of whether we were in the same local community or not it's time we stand together. this picture was taken in side a russian restaurant in san diego in california were armed locals lined up to the

fan premises the owner is among those who felt the need to be armed in the current circumstances he talked about what it's been like there. heavy looting in the city of san diego it wasn't in our neighborhood the muslim neighborhood 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 easy to see this piece which you see. young american young young black lives being lost or something stupid like this. and the fact that you know going to really help the cause that's that's just my personal experience my person would be. there could be. could be a better way to go about this and then robbing small businesses these people have nothing to do with it well aside from businesses protecting themselves during the

violence another group has been facing a threat in their line of work a number of journalists have been attacked by police while covering the countrywide protests the press freedom watchdog the committee to protect journalists there have been at least 300 file ations against new stuff since the 26th of may but i include at rioters on police it also states that dozens of journalists have been arrested history is calling for an investigation into the rough handling of a t.v. news team while they were reporting live on the washington riots. well. there was talk of i don't think we're going to go for a while. i were. going to take a look at. a guy. who

won a very last shot she may have just been able to me there was an american journalist saying. she was working for the russian news agency sputnik near the white house on monday evening and the scribes have officers reacted knowing she was there to report on the phone. call that my press badge they just like this and said. i'm tracks and press and i was holding it right or and it's after and yelled i'm press and that they start shooting me with a barrage of stinger grenades i have 7 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 shields to push us down to the ground so they they also pushed me to the ground and i slid along after all and had a lot of operations on my side they were very well aware that i was practiced and this is a clear targeting of journalists many administrations united states governments

have had 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 experience from yesterday is that the u.s. is all too willing to be willing to visit violence upon journalists here and to try to silence journal. here am i start again if i had members of the past experiencing a game. called live on earth they're against the press and social media has been abuzz with for the age of officers reacting with force and in some cases beyond the law 'd against protesters people have been injured by tear gas tasers rubber bullets and even vehicles being driven into crowds there are no multiple lawsuits on investigations into police conduct

a new york police department vehicle was filmed attempting to drive through a crowd last saturday. this was live streamed on facebook i'm on pepper sprayed by an officer in michigan before having a tear gas canister fired at him from early on me for a part. in the city of atlanta here 2 officers have been sacked after forcibly arresting 2 students. new york state so all the latest big case to grab headlines this week 2 officers pleading not guilty to assault on sodomy after they were filmed pushing an elderly tester who fell and sustained a head injury over the police department's version of events initially said the monk tripped and fell on his own similarly he and the show report on george floyd's death which sparked this local protests against police brutality law certain details.

he was ordered to step from his car after he got out he physically resisted offices officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress officers control ambulance he was transported to hennepin county medical center by ambulance where he died a short time later. to remove the. stock da.

but you have got your back. don't do not stop drop left with your body very much. i pad. videos paint a story sort of a culture where a lot of the public has been trained and encouraged to not believe like people. in the spike the tension ok also the certainty on many streets there have been some of the limits of light along the way one protester in california run up to a police officer while you're in kentucky they did the same thing giving them both . away from u.s. shores solidarity demonstrations were witnessed throughout the week from a street. to argentina while in europe there were large scale is really all over

the place really britain france at least we've increased in the netherlands. the protesters are again right in central london let's go live to for the last time we checked in with him was outside the the u.s. embassy big numbers in sydney parliament yesterday what's it looking like where you are this sunday afternoon. absolutely this is the day of

protests here in london in the wake of the killing of george floored there are still people arriving to this protest thousands of them outside the u.s. embassy it's a lot calmer than it was yesterday of course those images outside downing street the police today taking a much more hands off approach when it comes to policing this incident we saw yesterday police forces charging into the crowd to try to break them up outside downing street leading to some quite strong images of clashes. that we have seen attempts by the government discouraged. these types of protests the health secretary. making reference to of course the fact that we still do have

the coronavirus. going on claiming that there will be a spike as a result of these protests but of course all those will point to the fact that last week of the week before the u.k. still some hope people going to the park going to the beach is really ignoring most of the social distancing the vice and so for that reason people saying that these protests take priority far more important and that's why these thousands of people have come out in spite of the fact that there is of course a crowd of virus stranger still lacking in the background. isha thanks for bringing us right up the dates all not stay safe stay well. the u.s. embassy in london.

malcolm x. is a hero for many protesters on the streets of america speaking about the media he once said that if you're not careful it could have you hating the people being oppressed and loving the people doing the oppressing but what does that distinction me in today's usa. you can't be both with the yeah you want.

20 minutes into the hour welcome back now a major cleanup operation is underway in the russian arctic following him us of a fuel leak near the city of negril tsk there's now a state of emergency after 20000 tons of diesel seeped into a river and what environmentalists are calling the arctic regions worst ever catastrophe it was so bad it could be seen from space based satellite images from the russian space agency called small skiff u.n. idea the extent of the pollution containment device is known as boom barriers are in place to try and stop the fuel reaching the sea more than

a 1000 tons of diesel have not been recovered but the cleanup could take years to complete the off thora t.'s are furious that they were only alerted to the leak 2 days after it happened. do you know what on the list was no that would imply that she was going or what did the authorities only come to know about this after 2 days and we're now going to find out about emergencies like these from social media are you feeling all right. 'd just want to say you're so sure it was sort of a rescue team intervened very quickly the fuel spill was localized in them and are now river and the rescuers have already started working intensively to collect i'll be boiled.

rush's investigative committee has launched 3 investigations into what happened and have arrested the director of the power plant where the fuel tank filled. darwin in europe shut down to stem coronavirus sweden kept going most businesses stayed open in what was seen from abroad as a risky move but the swedish state epidemiologist behind that strategy told a newspaper awareness there that although it caused too many deaths he doesn't think it was wholly wrong. if we were to encounter the same disease with exactly what we know about it today i think we would learn midway between sweden dude and what the rest of the world good. well sweden has suffered more than 4 a half 1000 deaths odd of a population of around 10000000 that makes it the most affected of the scandinavian

countries the others enforced harsher restrictions the swedish government though sees it was ready to take on wider measures against the virus if advice to buy be healthy agency residents aren't so sure though a poll out on thursday echoed others suggesting that confidence among swedish citizens in the state's ability to deal with the brick house drop significantly since april another swedish epidemiologist we spoke to didn't hold back from criticizing either we're normally started we entered so why didn't matter then of course the information us how did washington in their. way which agree there it was centered the experiences of other countries around us it was started by a normal student and by that there was another country's if you wish there could not see where we could not know then no course you know then they were trying to do

for me they were trying to save them just that mindset has and not going to straighten all shit out of countries but we're we're being i think much more unfortunate. well europe's internal open borders are still some way off being a 2 way street in the week the italian prime minister. austria and greece for maintaining travel restrictions on italian citizens call them discriminatory and totally unacceptable it's only reopened its borders to e.u. citizens on wednesday to try and breed some sort of life into its stalled tourism industry peter oliver has been looking at how getting around europe these days isn't as clear cut as it used to be. summer is here and it's good news for germans were enduring if they're going to get a sunshine break this year the government here in berlin is lifting warnings against travel to european nations from the middle of this month the foreign

minister heiko mass in making me announcement though was keen to stress this isn't a green light for travel with wild abandon. travel warnings or not travel bans and travel guidelines are not invitations we want to make it clear in our travel guidelines that travelers are urged not to go to the u.k. we're not essential and as long as there is a 14 day quarantine in place getting ahead of everyone else in europe is italy they opened their borders on wednesday the lockdown is brought upon italy the worst recession since world war 2 the government is looking to holiday make is to revive the economy prime minister conte says the crowds of travelers they hope will be flocking into the country is a risk italy is willing to take. knowing also a most sincerely put them a logical curb may rise again however there are fears the tourists will skip visits

to the coliseum and gondola rides this year it's early is still reporting dozens of covert 19 cases daily a claim by a well known italian doctor that corona virus is losing potency so the world health organization stepped in with international experts warning against a foe. sense of security you know the reality is a virus practically no longer exists from a clinical standpoint it has got to return to being a normal country because there's evidence we can go back to having a normal life there are still thousands of people every day die from this woes so we need to be exceptionally careful not to create a sense that all of a sudden the virus by its all dilution has no decided to be less pathogenic nevertheless the italian foreign minister is doing the rounds trying to convince everyone that italy is safe for tourists to visit while local mayors are doing their part to try and draw people in to beaches restaurants and cafes that have been empty for too long.

surest will be able to come too close or not safe and we are ready to reopen with great success we can accommodate many tourists the risk of contracting the virus is extremely low we have to be open to accept people however it seems silly we'll still have to wait for its neighbors to open up as the reopening has already caused some troubles on the border. but we can go there but we can't go back to france so if we're going to get start there it's not worth it those european nations that rely heavily on tourism cash are desperate for holiday makers to come to them the

question now is how many will be willing to travel while coronavirus continues to infect people are all over r.t. belin. ok time to visit one of our documentaries now on the timely wants not do today's protests in america have as much to do with inequality as police violence the following program adds weight to that question and it starts right up to the brink. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being

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