tv Documentary RT June 10, 2020 12:30pm-1:31pm EDT
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here we are about 45 minutes from washington d.c. where the white house is. and we have a home in this condition. and it's those they've been the part that really gets me for a while. you'll see an abandoned house an abandoned house an abandoned house and then one person live in a. and then use the whole bunch abandoned house and you know this is not beirut
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this is not a 3rd world country no one should have to live like that. for example that someone lives right there. next to somewhere where a dead body could be in this house right now. you can drive and i don't know any weekend. and if you drive around enough i think i think you will see yellow tape at some point. and we all know what the yellow tape means when it became obvious when the yellow cape come out that means a family body is day. 20. 1 you know. we need to be able to have people come out a separate. positive thing good to come here after the next os like i said. baltimore has a problem with killing murder. it has
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a problem with drug abuse it has a problem with gangs some of the poverty areas in the city have not changed for decades particularly where the riots were in the madama area that has been a poverty stricken area for generations. and it's not changing it needs to change we'd like it to change so far we have not broken that cycle of poverty and crime and really desperation in those areas. and i think in particular of the street gangs the organized gangs that are down there they don't want to see these people escape that kind of poverty they want to keep them in there so you've meet those people too. if the ministry you're doing starts to hamper drug sales they're going to come after anybody that does that it can be anything from a threatening letter sometimes
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a bullet is left in your mailbox or you know on your front porch that's that says that the next bullet you won't hear it will just hit you. it's hard to convince a young man to. to continue in high school and to get a job at one of our fast food restaurants and make minimum wage. when he can be recruited by again and sell drugs and make hundreds of dollars a day. selling drove is an addiction and the addiction is how fast you make money. you got it custom see your life stuff if whatever please you not make it as
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a war. you will be depressed so when a person is still throws. for 10 years. it's a lot of fun. and if you don't have to know how to transfer that energy as you find the same job as an equivalent to that lifestyle is going to fail. see in america because you would have you want to be you know you can go to jail or monday get out in jail and go to college this is how america is but. you've got to want to do they're not going you know take you by your head to say oakum or. me personally there's only 2 jobs i would do yes equal to the lifestyle that i had . barbara drive a truck through so if i could be a barber i'll draw strength from. not
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always want to be a lawyer criminal defense was quite attractive to me for a number of reasons i grew up watching t.v. shows about criminal defense lawyers. i was born and raised here i went off to school i came back so therefore it's it's kind of a natural fit for me as my hometown criminal defense attorney. and there is a fair share of crimes. represented thousands of people the charge of all types of all fences is a stomach problem it's all over drugs money go in hand in hand you've got marginalized community of poor people who see no other way to come across the chance of monies and so they find themselves involved in narcotics. there's not much of a future most end up in prison in and out of prison and back to the neighborhood in
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prison back to the neighborhood that will be their existence the. and so you have a group of people who are unemployed they have no job no income and those are the ones that find themselves mired in the criminal justice system you know the criminal justice system is locking up more and more people once you get a criminal record then you can be discriminated against legally in housing so i need to keep everybody there because they can't find housing somewhere else because they have a criminal record so to keep them locked in that community they can't find jobs because their criminal records or they don't have the money to move out of that community anyway and it's out of the picture but it is the con is. that we that we see you know more and more and more what i just see is getting getting worse in that pocket of individuals and so we're going to build more prisons that's really been the solution build more prisons and that's and that's what's going to continue . the life of.
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black people in general is. still behind everyone else. if the average white family control those. 800000 still see the lavish african-american would control 20 or 30000 cops. who are filling up the prisons but life is a 2nd this cesspit no change. 2 weeks ago when i was in california you know these riot squad with rifles and everything they arrested me and the mascot. they said you're trespassing and i've been there for 40 years i went to jail i came out i went back to the place they came right back so last 2 months ago i
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went to jail twice we're not revolutionaries running around with guns here in america nonviolent resistance for us is transformation you have to have a revolution in the mine if you roll want to make a new world you have to make new people. the cia is here the f.b.i. all these people here washington d.c. is the capital the center. of criminality. the center of oppression. that is my reason for coming here to washington d.c. i would learn all the processes in methodology that they use against the people.
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they have a general policy in america number one if you stand up and try to change this say to have us you could have what you want in the system they'd try to bribe you just joining us ok if you don't do that then they'll try to scary. if you don't shut up if you don't join us we're going to take your house your family your car we're going to take your job we're going to do all that you can read anywhere from anybody if you know we started going to tell the people of hollywood if you put him on with i check your taxes we're going to do all of that sonny leave you alone right the government was so skillful that it destroy. the real movements it imprisoned. people when you step out of the stores you must realize you are writing oh oh oh oh oh.
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oh right america doesn't care about poor people until they ask for something like give me rights give me justice a lot of folks might need health care no that's that's what doesn't respond they don't respond to police violence but they respond to the way we protest is so hypocritical i think a lot of these communities like st louis by baltimore even the south bronx were so poor this is by design like you better believe that institutional racism in the oppression and capitalism are real elements to play. into our impoverished in a hopeless state is a reason why hospitals of failing is the reason why our kids are allowed to drop out old wants us to climb up the food chain. during the riots a couple of years ago a young man was interviewed as to why he participated in the riots and why he
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participated in the looting he was 17 years old and quite frankly said i expect to be dead in a couple of years so i know what. that was somebody without hope for people that are living in the poverty areas it is hard to maintain hope the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the dares thinks. we dare to ask.
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no what's a clip of she will be no use to you. but me my it's always at the k. it was a that's the real moment of the late. not something you. see in the media this happens today they call. it the close to that. if they can't win quickly that the way i. see the. yes. yes. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll show you what's the reason for any type of enhanced u.s. military presence in this area russia. what is it suddenly about the south china
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sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil. take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have nuclear weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so that's why we're going to drill down on the story for you today right here 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. the heart has already been eaten out of their part of america that they used to
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call look cool or of american. farming white people. small communities all in the hills and mountains they don't exist anymore. we believe that the church is the mosque like this should solve the social problems that's what we're working on. this was all dead after they did. actually it was a junkyard and it was tied this whole area where our church is is tied for the highest crime area in the city right here but what we did was we believed it i life
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in christ should also be exemplified in the community so what we did was we started our own community development corporation and we started this and look at it this week we named it paradise manor because we didn't have the money but we had god we had his word was that he's given us the power and we've built this whole community in the neighborhood actually now we've built over 400 homes through our c.d.c. and this is just a part of what our church has done. every white person was in the slave on every white person didn't have a slave you know we're a plantation owners there's plenty of white people who were prospering too they didn't have money. it's not about color it's just the fact that. the african slaves they came over. here fortunately we had some white people who said that's wrong it's in the abolitionists they preached against slavery we had
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for the 1st time in history a country say slavery is wrong and that presented a problem for those who had sleighs because it's about money it's about power the civil war here in america really wasn't about color it was about money him no so that's what it was all about you mess with people's money but it really the fight over it but what i'm saying is that the whole race is message certainly you know there are people who. resent it black people because hey you know you're free now you used to work for me and i don't like you i'm an. inner problem everybody was the same color we'd find something short would be against tall the fat versus the skinny whatever so inward problem so what i'm saying is that today the message to white people today is. you know your races. you're raised you say anything about a black person your races what's happened today is that our country has become
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divided and you know how divided won't stand ok so racism has become a political pawn have a mask on and i i don't profess. i can't. quite do what we call in this country white was coming from the right the democratic party uses it to keep black people voting for them those republicans are racists but actually is the democratic platform that basically is what i call the slave master today meaning what we're going to provide for you we're going to be the ones who help you we'll give you this we'll give you that we'll give you this what is it is just to keep control over and the. words that are being said to black people is that where you know your unit of in a white supreme is country because you're black you can't do this and you can't have it that's a lie. really really. really. you
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know weird interesting group. so the cameras do come the cameras came during the civil rights movement. the cameras will continue to come. because you kick up enough does cameras are going to come because it's good television in this exciting . it's all white world and white power structure white people run everything they control the media black people don't and a part of the white power structure here in the united states is to keep us as 2nd class citizens i was born in 1963 so the voting rights act i believe was in 1968 with the civil rights act and black men had a right to vote so discrimination became illegal. back in the 1960 so they had to find other trick ways in order to keep us mentally and slaves.
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they have to keep racism out there because that's how they keep the black vote they keep the black vote by saying those other people are races in remember what they did to you so what it does is a keeps us bitter keeps black people focused on the negative stuff that happened vs what we need to do and be as a people in a land of opportunity and freedom so it's propaganda it's a device it's a tool there's use to keep people's vote voted against oppression are we have to remember the democrats won the popular vote to stoop that is built controlling people of color and poor people they've never apologized for racism the biggest terror threat in this country is why. the greatest division in our country in my opinion is the political division you see beginning between the democrats and the republicans they're looking at the next
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election they're trying to find something to say things about the next election so that they can win you know just like with russia all he's russian is the russian this and i mean it's all you know and i just believe right now that more blacks are coming to the realization that the democratic party can't control us anymore like they've done in the past listen racism has become a political gain is played by politicians. like question i don't want. my. racism exist but racism really doesn't matter discrimination does.
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all around this area is town that gets things from to live in this area not in the local and not like in mayfield will quote foot bottom or end of project no my cost to live in a condo not a rate. continues to go on and all can just go continue to go you can't stop. people coming up there you should still got a stone or a radical bill show you where to steal. from the dead the mexicans who hear the message can know that they have unified day work. just as hard for little or nothing they make less than we do. but they work together. they are 1st class unity people they take a little something and they got a lot. we as a bride who we don't never have no uniter no way all the calls are green or scared to someone go ahead ward in what you ere. another war.
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that's what i'd say. if you lead to another war. they do not want black people to be equal they might want one black friend or they want one black famous person they want one black this and one black that you see and after they have that they don't want any more so it's the illusion of not being racist but isn't that shrew way of not been racist. there's been no real improvement just because we have black mayors just because we have black senators just because we have black congress and that doesn't mean anything for the people. do you know more people get killed
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black people get killed during obama's time they need do the right houses time. because you have a black president you can't say it's not good right. all the symptoms of decline. schools are closing america had the best educational system in the world. now it's down. the american transportation system highway system used to be the best in the world is falling apart. for him. american economy used to control the worldwide economy. now america's economy the scrum. we have
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experienced anything like this as the great depression since 2008 our communities have been in ruins you haven't seen this kind of loss of wealth in black america since the collapse of the free. for 240 years. our nation's call to citizenship has given work and purpose to each new generation thank you america is a better stronger place than it was when we start. thank . you after all we remain the wealthiest most powerful. and most respected nation on earth. are you our drive. our diversity and all of us are. resting in the
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seemed wrong. role just all. get to shape out just they come out ok and in games from equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when you choose to look for common ground . they can come and blow our brains out at any given time if we can't really do anything actually america is the only country in the world where you can kill people. war illegally get away with. all the fire crawls
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stillbirth you all the trouble here is pretty fail the point it's hollow ploy to k.k.k. exists because america wants it to exist they are the biggest terrorist group to ever operate in this country and they're dead to me they're worse also than the people who destroyed the world trade centers of the scroll was. probably the greatest success of the civil rights movement which was respect for human dignity all lives matter under the rule of law that was then but today the same concept has been turned on its head we were told to change to meet or face consequences social sheeny is being turned into a ruling ideology. of no wants a clip of she will have no use to look up to sca but you might it's always at the
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well coming up viewers from around the world live from central london this is our to u.k. . prime minister barak's johnson announces the easing of more knockdown measures these include the introduction of support bubbles for those living alone can join forces with one other household without having to maintain social distancing. but this comes as doctors warn of an epidemic and loneliness dozens of people are discovered dead in their homes after weeks of long down as n.h.s. bosses want hospital waiting lists but sometimes a mini and by the end of the year we hear from a medical doctor. that you have slave trader robert milliken is really his campaign this time get at least 16 other controversial monuments in the u.k. we hear from an activist of black lives matter and
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a barrister. and the architect of the u.k. last time professor neil ferguson claims the government failed to adequately protect can host despite knowing the risks and says figures reveal over 60 percent of care home residents have died as a result of covert 19. prime minister boris johnson has announced more plans to release the coronavirus knock down measures in england from this weekend those who live alone will be able to join up with one of the household known as support bubbles without having to maintain social distancing guidelines or r.t.u. case isa rally joins me now either he says so the government does not see the easing of more lock down measures absolutely we've seen boris johnson this week already having to announce you on some of his strategy to get the country out of lockdown in particular with regards to children go back to schools however with
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other parts of the law the prime minister says he intends to continue moving forward including with the opening of schools of apologies especially the opening of pubs restaurants non-essential shops but also other attractions that people can visit outdoors. there are too many people still too many people particularly those who live by themselves who are lonely and struggling with being unable to see friends and family so from this weekend we were allowed single adult households adults living alone or single parents with children under 18 to form a support bubble a support bubble with one other household all those in a support bubble will be able to act as if they live in the same household
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meaning they can spend time together inside each other's homes and do not need to stay 2 meters apart we can open up some more outdoor attractions for people to enjoy this summer so from monday we will allow outdoor attractions where people can stay in their cars such as safari parks and drive in cinemas to open. i'm very grateful to the zoo industry for their cooperation and forbearance and i'm happy to confirm that they too can reopen from monday provided visitor numbers are managed and safeguards put in place. now throughout the crisis we've had this to me to social distancing rule in place although violence he was also at the daily briefing today saying that that's not strictly a rule more scientific advice and we have been hearing with regards to the 2 metre
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aspects of it other elements within the government within the cabinet itself calling for that to be reduced from 2 metres down to one meter spot of allowances comments an indication the government would be willing to consider bringing that down in line with world health organization advice and that would help again lounges cafes restaurants and so on to open their doors and get people in and particularly to get more people in so hopefully from their perspective get the economy going once more and to get the money coming back through the coffers what about the economy and bubbles then he said thank you very much indeed. now doctors are investigating the deaths of dozens of people found alone in their homes during the pandemic many have died late undiscovered for up to 2 weeks prompting fears many people aren't seeking health treatment when they need it to a discovery means some bodies have begun to decompose making it difficult to establish of the cause of death was from covert 19 for charities and medics have
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pointed to a drop in people seeking help for serious illnesses like heart attacks and strokes since the pandemic started. it comes as n.h.s. bosses will but by the end of the year hospital waiting this poseur juries in england could have more than doubled from the 4400000 shared before the pandemic the n.h.s. confederation's said this dropped to 4200000 in launch as doctors preferred fewer people for procedures like hip replacements and cataract removal but these waiting lists could surpass 10000000 by the end of the year as hospitals do with a possible 2nd wave of the virus staff shortages under reduction in beds 2 to social distancing in a letter to the prime minister the head of the n.h.s. confederation said the government needed to be realistic about what was possible it will not be possible simply to switch on n.h.s. services the government has a vital role to play in making this clear and providing reassurance that every possible step is being taken to control the virus as we start to resume routine
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services the n.h.s. is keen to regime as many services as it can but we need a level of realism about what can and what cannot be achieved safely in the coming months well the government said that private hospitals could be used to help clear the backlog while the health secretary said the drop in those attending emergency rooms was partly due to people seeking appropriate advice from a local doctor but he's previously stressed that people should seek hospital treatment if they need it while the department of health said it had already issued guidance to the n.h.s. i how services can be restored safely thanks to all the hard work and dedication of n.h.s. staff hospitals were not overwhelmed to touring the peak of the corona virus outbreak guidance has already been issued to the n.h.s. on how they should start to restore services in a safe way. well the war on this and i joined by many to talk to david bull david thank you for joining us let's look at the situation that the elderly are some of
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the most at risk here look down hasn't necessarily protected those most at risk because it no i think what this shows really is the very sort of human tragedy behind coronavirus i think every day we're born by barb's it by statistics and the number of deaths than the number of new cases and actually you know we've we've socially isolated millions of people 1500000 vulnerable people who have been isolated for weeks for months and of course you know the stories that are coming out of these people who've been socially isolated left alone no one's checked on them is a terrible human tragedy and i think you know what this shows more than anything is that we need to check on those people who are alone to make sure they have services to ensure that they not only get sort of the medical support they need a little safe food but also the sort of social support because we know that there is a fine balance here between the physical health and also the mental health effects of what's been happening but also to what extent do you think that these tests have
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been caused by people staying at home when they actually needed medical help yeah i mean we certainly know that in fact the messaging has been very clear hasn't it you know the government has been clear to say you know protect the n.h.s. save lives stay at home and actually we now realize that many people are taking that message to heart but the really key message here is if you have an urgent condition if you are worried then you need to seek medical help now at the time that the coronavirus pandemic was asked to speak obviously hospitals cleared and room was made for those coronavirus patients but as a result of course all those operations were canceled non-urgent operations will cancel and that's meant that people are seeking help for the ocean conditions it's also meant that routine surgery has also been postponed and as you've seen we now have a major problem we have 4400000 people on the waiting list and if we. don't resume elective procedures soon we're going to increase that waiting list significantly so
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the government now has to make a very clear decision about what is going to happen going forward because it's one thing to say we are being led by science but it's also a political decision so the government needs to be clear and it also needs to inform the public as to its indications and what it's going to do what the government is going to get n.h.s. that is back up and running they've said so in her consent either this backlog could be as high as 10000000 by the end of the year yeah i think all doctors are very concerned in fact i was talking to them doctors today i think you know it is a fine balance isn't it between protecting people from coronavirus and then protecting them from other illnesses so i think all of us are extremely concerned now one of the problems is as you say the our number is below one it's between no point 70.9 and the number of cases is still falling but the social distancing is a real problem because if we continue it to meet is that the risk is about 3 percent if you drop down to sorry one to me to say. that
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of one meet so the point is the hospitals even when they resume will still be a need able to work at about 60 percent of capacity so i think again as the cases fall as they are number decreases then obviously we need to ensure that people can get access to the services that they need or what steps should the government be taking to mitigate these with the me we had the night you know hospitals the patients is it possible we could i can open them up yeah i mean they they were produced at a rapid rate and obviously the capacity is enormous they weren't used to tall to the capacity that they were intended and so obviously they are still there and they are still on standby and i think many doctors actually want to ensure that coronavirus patients are seen in specialist units and then hospitals can get on with the day to day operations day to day elective procedures that have been postponed at the. i meant well finally the day before you get we've heard boris johnson talk of the support bubbles that something that's come from the government
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today should we had these much earlier do you think i think it with the retrospective scope it's easy to say we should have done a lot of things differently i think one of the things that we were always keen to do was to protect the most vulnerable the 1500000 people with those chronic underlying conditions like heart disease or spiritual conditions diabetes and the immunosuppressed but of course what we didn't really take into account in the same way was the mental health of people and i think opening up those social bubbles to ensure that people who are isolated on their own can now mix with family is really really important it means they'll have the support they need and it will also improve people's mental health in them so they can bill thank you very much for joining us. now let's take a look at how the corona virus outbreak is affecting the case for home nations the u.k. death toll has reached 41128 having risen by 245 fatalities since
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tuesday and it just england has reported 88 hospital deaths while the scottish housefull soldiers have reported 12 across all settings wales reported 9 the northern island has reported no new deaths for the 4th day in a way. but the u.k. set to become the worst economic effective country in the developed world pli the coronavirus pandemic according to a report by the organization for economic cooperation and development britain's national income is for cost for by over 11 percent this year the document cited a soaring unemployment rate as the chief concern predicting the u.k. slump is likely to overtake countries including brazil and sweden both to put your face to heavy criticism over the coronavirus responses. and now let's turn to the global coronavirus figures that have been over 7200000 confirmed infections according to worldwide data collated by johns hopkins university in the us more
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than 412000 people have died while the total number of recoveries approaches $4000000.00. coming up after the break. former government advisor newell ferguson claims number 10 new the coronavirus risk to care homes for sale too much data reveals 6 percent said president. the world is driven by a dream shaped by our own person. or
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or inmate in the shallowness. welcome back one of the u.k. governments for mckie science advisers claims the authorities underestimated the degree to which corona virus would spread in care homes now ferguson whose research instigated the lockdown appeared before the science and technology committee and was asked to explain why the death toll has exceeded his initial predictions we truly have underestimated how far into the government has done was let's call the roots the 2nd car which i think is more avoided it would be more portable.
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is that one of those in grants. and we could all we're going to do some. government policy if by that. we see or hear from friends. but we've got to say he is infection rates are probably more times higher but it's emerged that over 6 percent of people have died in care homes in england and wales as a result of the coronavirus pandemic according to the statistics watched. just over 400000 people live in care homes across england and wales with around one in 16 having died during the coronavirus crisis according to the office for national statistics there have been just over 26000 excess deaths in care homes since the beginning of the pandemic just under 12000 have been due to cope with 19 while other fatal artists have been linked to other medical problems well as the much
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controversy surrounding u.k. care home since the beginning of the pandemic the government has been slammed after hospital patients were sent back to their homes without being tested for the virus critics say this move contributed to the rapid rise of coronavirus within these institutions previously prime minister boris johnson has said medical professionals would only have discharged patients if they were medically fit to leave while others claim that interference with the health care system has also led to an increased number of deaths among the elderly. the u.k. opposition a sit out of the government for delaying an independent review into britain's counter-terrorism scheme prevent the review into the prevent programme which aims to stop vulnerable people falling prey to terrorist ideologies was commissioned in january last year however the body that will conduct the review still doesn't have a chairman after lord carlile start stood down in december 29th teen or critics of the scheme say it disproportionately targets people from was them backgrounds and
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ignores far right terrorists it comes as the government push through a 2nd reading of a new counter-terrorism bill which removes a deadline for ministers to respond to the findings of the prevent review it also aims to increase maximum sentences and lower the burden of proof which labor m.p. david lammy says is completely wrong. whatever they have done wrong those suggest by dangerous ideologies in their teenage years must be given every opportunity to change the conservative government seems to have taken 9 years to move away from labor policy and then to return to full circle back to it madam deputy speaker whether it can be justified or not lowering the standard of proof inevitably creases the chances of innocent individuals being subjected to serious constraints of their freedom and given the courts found no
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problems with the current threshold and as the independent review of terrorism legislation notes what are the reasons for this u. turn radicalization expert dr taric yunus told me he believes the constant delays to there if you only show the extent of government apathy the delay is just another straw are so to speak on the camel's back of many many struck. one has to take this into consideration the fact that calls for a formal review of prevent have been really dismissed 3 years until they were formally accepted. and then carlos chosen and i should mention your letter carlos also chosen among choices you would be under bad joke category of choices which is of course how he was forced to step down and now obviously. these
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dismissals and now these doing these really just i think for many in the community . demonstrate just how performative this whole thing is it's not something those ready ever really taken seriously and what about this game itself do you think is it ineffective. the prevent team is most likely perhaps one of the most atrocious public health policy is or public policy dicey across the global north in a in in its treatment and understanding of of trying to prevent crime in the future it's absolutely it's absolutely one of the worst ones that i've see what's what are the flaws what makes it so bad. well 1st of all there's a lot of research that demonstrate in public consciousness sort of the british public's imagination the threat of terrorism is common sense clear associated with
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muslims with this and with the signs and symbols and performance that there are sources muslims in islam and so to make it a public statutory duty for people to report on through good feelings when they feel they are encountering something done may potentially lead to criminality in the future. that is. inconceivable. people around the country have been taking the need to remember george floyd's the black man killed in police custody in america and locations around the u.k. protesters dropped to one knee to pay their respects to floyd he was unarmed when he died he was laid to rest in his hometown of houston on cheers day well his death sparked protests around the world when it comes following days of black lives matter protests as memorials to historical figures in the u.k. continue to cause controversy in the u.k. the statue of slave trader robert milligan who has been removed from outside a london museum robert milligan it was an 18th century scottish merchant who owned
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over 500 slaves in jamaica as well as a sugar plantation the museum describe the monuments presents as uncomfortable and a reminder of britain's problematic past this comes after the monument of another slave trader edward coast and was forcibly removed by protesters infrastructure and thrown into a river the council says it will be retrieved and placed in a museum meanwhile demonstrators are calling for the review of other controversial monuments. i.
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before the protests are expected over the coming days following a police reaction is also under the microscope london's mayor is drawing up plans to address concerns about alleged disproportionate use of force against minority communities that since one news issue posted a video of the 62 year old father being tasered. i feel east haven police brutality is still rife among the black community and the metropolitan police have defended the use of force while the labor leader and prime minister clashed over the implementation of an independent report by labor m.p. david lammy aimed at addressing injustices most of the recommendations in the law made report into inequality in the criminal justice system have yet to be implemented 3 years after the report was published similarly the long delayed and damning report by wendy williams into the windrush scandal has yet to be
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implemented i spoke last night to black community leaders and they had a very clear message for the prime minister implement the recall you've already got so could the prime minister now turbo charge the government responses we are increasing already the number of black minority ethnic people in the prison service is david lammy i recommended we are increasing the use of body one cameras and how we are trying to ensure amongst other things that young be any people are not immediately prosecuted as a result of the trouble they find themselves in and we try to make sure that we give people a chance but i must stress that on the lam report and on all these matters it is absolutely vital at the same time that we keep our streets safe one of the organizers of the black lives mass movement in the u.k. gary mcfarland told me that schools need to update their curriculum to teach children about the true legacy of the slave trade. actually existence of the
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monuments is a distortion of history far from being monuments these people. should be written into the history books and proper history taught about the real legacy of a slave trade and the real part played by the slave trade in the building of modern britain that's the set of industrial revolution and the british empire none of that is currently integrated into the national curriculum despite decades of demanding but real history has taught history of the people that live on this island and the people are completely missed ireland and the 2 groups of the wealth of this country none of that is really taught in our schools yeah getting with the monuments is a step in the right direction so it gets and truth in suv discourse but how is that about how you also get rid of the statues as well is that a case of infantilizing them is actually wrong 2 wrongs don't make a right do that isn't there a sort of more democratic way of removing the now when i was the height of
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democracy 30000 people coming to government and restore what's up in this problem the biggest demonstrations bristol seen for a very long time and all revolutions situations statues articles and yes that's a good sign for the future because we do need a revolution in this country and many others say advocating revolution but looking at great here's one of the sectors that they are also people would like to have remade for didn't also advocate abolishing slave trade as i say well no the americans against the store simply stated people who should be getting the strategies that people like to use only the people a bit of a slave trade that's the state of rebel leaders of the slate leaders of the caribbean that made slavery impossible to maintain by the european powers while barrister and for n.h.s. nurse rebecca butler told me she supports change but doesn't support the means by which it's being achieved. the historical records should be accurate now the cost and statue in bristol has caused a lot of problems over the decades but they've had
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a black mayor for 4 years who has done nothing about it so i don't find it objectionable to say that the place for that statue is a museum but i think that historical record needs to be accurate and it needs to be clear that his money was gained through the slave trade i have absolutely no issue with that it is a historical record and the historical record has to be accurate so i'm on the side of black lies matter when it comes to that sort of thing what i don't agree with is the violence and the way in which it is done particularly take issue with the roads must fall statue at oriel college in oxford because the rhodes scholarship is actually sponsored by nelson mandela as well it's a it's a joint scholarship between mandela and rhodes and nelson mandela sort of indicated
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it back in 2003 so there's there's a little bit of intellectual does dissonance when it comes to an attempt to wipe out the history as we know it and we'll see it's a very dangerous thing to set and that's all for our to u.k. at the top of the hour on what he america will take over but from the team here in london by. thank you i. thank. you. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. this drug where her cocaine is where 4 bucks for the under 50.
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