it. was. the headlines in r.t. donald trump threatens to send the army into seattle if local authorities don't do something about the protesters who've occupied parts of the city and declared it and the tone in this zone the city's mayor has said they're using the military would be illegal also to come the international criminal court slams washington for imposing sanctions on it for launching an investigation into u.s. war crimes in afghanistan and swedish opposition parties lash out at the government's relaxed approach to the corona virus which resulted in one of the highest mortality rates in europe.

so the welcome you're watching at international this saturday morning which just call 9 o'clock in moscow. protesters in the newly formed in central seattle are considering their next move having seized control of the area it was abandoned by police president trump has threatened to send in the army if the local authorities fail to resolve the matter. we're not going to let this happen and if we have to go in we're going to go and to go because you're going to do it but to go to do it he's got great national guard troops to do you can do it but one way or the other it's going to get done and these people are not going to occupy a major portion of a great city our president wants to tell a story about domestic terrorists who have a radical agenda and are promoting a conspiracy and fitz's law and order initiatives it's simply not true

the threat to invade seattle to divide and incite violence in our city is not only unwelcome it would be illegal well the capitol hill autonomy own was formed at the beginning of the weight by black lives matter activists they barricaded themselves inside 6 blocks of the center of seattle and declared it a police freezone activists to see if the law can has been explaining what life is like inside the new commie. and down here in the capitol hill autonomous zone also known as chavez and the mood here is come to leave a peaceful ok you can see it over here. we've got people really get some food and over here we also have free pizza shrinks water all types of snacks we've got people handing out bags with masks and hand sanitizer literally everything you can think of and over here is the memorial that is set up

to all of the people that we've lost or during the george lloyd brazilian as they're calling it that's what the law says over there is they could constitute 24 hour vigil people could like candles and you know say their prayers the no just just hang out this is the west entrance to the capitol hill autonomous zone back there we have the the precincts which is where this is where most of the violence was inactive by the police for the last 2 nights the last week or so this is where most of the stuff happened and there are still 4 main barricades point and inside is the autonomous zone people are anticipating on staying as long as possible there have been several tents that have already been set up people are preparing to stay overnight main goal i would say that i could say right now is that people are they calling for the defunding of police you know nationwide we've

seen this minneapolis city council. already you know completely just then vote to disband the minneapolis police were calling for the same thing here in seattle we're calling for a complete defunding of the police a completely allocation and to black and brown community is where it's needed the most and so that is definitely a goal of people. i would say the number one. a rate now where protests are still ongoing in other u.s. states with the heart of the u.s. commerce no exception new york saw protesters come out peacefully to support the black lives matter movement the protest of coincide there with the women's empowerment margin ended with a joint platform crowds gathered in manhattan reportedly starting out from trump tower and people were seen holding placards and chanting demands to defund police justice for george floyd and also a particular focus on the lives of black women but aside from public support the

black live matter movement has been given the backing of major u.s. companies like amazon microsoft and starbucks however it does seem their actions aren't speaking louder than their words taylor explains 21st century companies live in fear of cats culture of old tree too i misjudged jokingly 20 hoss sentence in the court of public opinion so with black lies much of protests sweeping the globe every business is clamoring to see a part of fight the problem is they've got to do a background check on themselves just found out starbucks is key to ring to the comfort of their racist customers but i will skin their stuff not to wear anything in support of black clothes matter so i won't be visiting them and they'll be telling everyone i know to boycott them as well that by the end of the tire was. it was too late because by then incensed activists have gotten

a parking space not if you die the car is history and sure enough starbucks got schooled but it's also hypocrisy. stop bots use a scoff at the 6 tracked by. slaves and what tomorrow or kenya costa rica and panama. remember when they wrote let's talk about racism on the cops remember in the close to half a day because 2 black men were arrested for being black at a starbucks as we always thought they were only about black lives matter when it's convenient lucky for starbucks so it's not taking all the heat as other companies also suffer from selective memory fashion powerhouses i victoria's secret and prada tweeted have how sickened and somehow did they were great inequality and how they were companies with ethics which could be seen as false up the ties and given that if you google though you might stumble across words like child labor best rotation

black face as the vocal obviously the most influential fashion magazine well now it's promoting voices and brands in the black community which probably came as quite a surprise to the publication brazil director who recently celebrated her 50th birthday with him own problematic slave themed party the world of big tech is also massively promoting black lives matter not under as a man will be welcomed by the movement's santa and jeff bezos is publicly naming and shaming customers who send him mean e-mails because of the company's starts which would be a full proof plan to boost your popularity than to make another couple of $100000000.00 if it wasn't for the fact that amazon makes a tidy sum from its dealings with the police it is opportunistic offenders on to use this moment to make empty and hypocritical statements when it is similar tenuously building the backbone for many police departments across the country the

company proprietary policy center acknowledges that are clearly targeting and harming blake and brown communities and into the mix there are only 8. of its managers in the us a black eye you'll see by slapping a beard and that on your home page doesn't quite make the cut as a black woman i feel like it is time to boortz there's a help us troubles everyone wants to join in and profit from us and we're all microsoft has started posting messages from it's like employees but if i do runs out of material pretty quickly given the less than 5 percent of its entire what force is black so we get it big what couple of pages here that bathroom is a social media stunt the pundits one after the up and the books balanced but it looks like they went and posted another where on instagram they forgot to put a padlock on that closet busted with skeletons. are there now the british prime

minister boris johnson has said it is shameful the statue of winston churchill has to be boarded up to protect it from potential vandalism it comes as something of a war has been waged by activists against the nation's monuments in the church will start she was in case the mood after protesters thought he was a racist and his name churchill that the allies to victory in the 2nd world war but is now being sued for a system for some comments he once made the london mayor ordered a review of all monuments and street names that praise people who might be linked to slavery and racism the war on statues or sparks debate on whether it's a raise is the past we asked people in the capital there these. people are here to defend so statues and i support people defended it was to support people try to take it down so i tried to look at things from both perspectives there's a lot of good history behind it but people don't want to talk about the bad history

. one of the issues is try to be changed i didn't. realize a lot of things he'd done i never learned that and i certainly wouldn't be outside and go forward. but i would. say he does learn from a museum or a school with is actually still in school people should remember it was a lot harder than. a lot of the statues should be taken down to gods or gold itself and bought the pods i think it should be this isn't so good for all the people living in the world would love to be the cd. meanwhile over in the u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi is leading the fight against confederate statues on capitol hill she even sent a letter to the joint committee on the library asking for them to be removed amid the nationwide demonstrations against racism can you imagine jefferson davis alexander stephens treason it treason against united and this tragedy

i feel that because their state put them here well this does come amid the current campaign in the country to take down symbols of the confederacy in virginia a statue of a confederate soldier has been removed after standing in its place for more than 100 years as he fought on the side trying to preserve slavery we discuss the war on monuments with a host of r.t. america's on contact show chris hedges. i think it's important to remember what the historian carl becker wrote and that is that history is what the president chooses to remember about the past so historical monuments are an expression of power indication of who has power and that's the power to choose our history is remembered in public places. all of these confederate monuments the ones that you seen coming down mostly in the south of course. were put up in the late

890 s. the early 20th century. to a centrally remind of black people during jim crow and the period of lynching. of the power and celebration of white supremacy and there was a very conscious effort to exclude figures not just in terms of black leadership or those such as not turner and others rose up to rebel against slavery but also white including generals who didn't. support segregation white supremacy or black rights movements have been famous across the u.s. since the 1960 s. one of the most controversial the black panthers started by monitoring cops and challenging police brutality we discussed the cover rise of black lives matter movement civil rights in america and civil rights in america more today with the

renowned political activist and former black panther angela day. i think the world is able to see. this certain nation is far from hell c. o a police department so that was so dramatic expression of structural racism our prisons are full of black people. like to know. that. we have to have an evolution as imagination if we want to go to a future for our city i'm standing ovation and for the world. and you can actually watch that interview in full in the latest episode of going underground which airs this monday now police in the us are becoming increasingly stigmatized amid the ongoing black lives matter protest

a major in tulsa police department has been criticized for arguing officers aren't specifically targeting african-americans he says he yet he has got think is that back up what he's saying and he spoke with artie's neil harvey. you had those isolated incidents where i was going to go and since that her and especially on body camera video they're shown over and over again so i think the general public thinks that's happening in the states we make 350000000 contacts year and obviously the fast majority of those are not in the instance that occur we use force less than one percent of all arrestees but when that mistake happens you know we're all healed that skinner all went that we should root out you know there's no there's no place for police brutality or racism or excessive force anywhere but i think the thing that bothers a lot of officers here is is when it happened somewhere everybody gets the blame for that and i think that's unfair i would encourage your audience you go to the washington post police shooting database and they come pahl the state of source you

can go back and look and since 2015 if you want to look talks about the unarmed individual shot by law enforcement if you break it down between african-american and white it's 3 percent unarmed white shot unarmed and 2 percent of the normal unarmed black so they're very even numbers and you know it's race isn't a factor generally those numbers should be even and so there's this there's this narrative that you know blacks are shot at much higher rate unarmed weiss the truth is weiser actually shot more than black but i think there's a there's a real sphere here in the states to actually talk about that and what i've been trying to say is we've got to be able to we've got to be able to we can at least talk about those facts it's really hard to move forward a problem solve a piece of power and use of excessive force by police in the us who goes right back to the civil rights movement has been going on for a you know 50 is. can you understand why there are coals even like a public movement to defund the police force do you think that that is the right

direction to go in given that the problems have been around for so long isn't it time to try something different or is this the case of just making a bad situation worse if you if you start to defund that's a huge huge decision and you've got to really. think about law enforcement in america isn't well funded now you know most of our current personnel cost or around 90 percent so you start talking defunding a 10 percent level or a 50 percent level you're going to be losing officers on the streets now you are going paperclips are going so you've got to have a replacement there because if you get some police or police are able to respond to the calls to stop they have somebody to investigate crimes get somebody to investigate rapes robberies i think were we have gone astray in america is law enforcement's been tasked with doing things that we never had to do from the mentally ill that that system is broken so law enforcement final straw that we end up you know about city percent of the people unfortunately at this country's are are mentally ill and force an awful she doesn't always know that on

a sunny and so i actually like trying to spawn some programs other than law enforcement to try to take some of that burden away from law enforcement what you can't do is you can't take funding to law enforcement and then asked law for to do the same exact work just to be very good but it's the pentagon confirmed to national guard members in this case actually would deliver the paints it contained glass shards this was in washington d.c. those national guard members would enjoy it but it shows you the elements of hate it's against the law enforcement another god of the mom in this is pretty scary in itself isn't it as well that they actually but less it's almost become the mob rule and it's kind of cool to do these kind of things a lot for sure but i want to let everybody keep in mind there's really no other profession on the planet necessarily that people are treated like this you know if you if people were a need for any type of fashion or ethnicity or group and people routinely treat them like this we would take that very seriously but unfortunately it's kind of become just another day of the week for on force and you see these stories come out

the way they're treated and i would say this we've got to look at the individuals when they do bad behavior and it's really unfortunate that we're looking at groups out there are 850000 police officers the vast majority of them are doing this for the right reason they're getting to their community want to make gifts. and you're very disturbed by what you've seen and they want to be part of the change but it's very difficult to be part of that change when you're casting. now there is concern to gas could cause a dramatic increase in the number of covert 900 cases among protesters the issues been highlighted in an open letter signed by almost 1300 u.s. public health and medical professionals comes amid the nationwide protests against racism that's been raging for 2 and a half weeks. opposing the use of tear gas smoke or other responders 3 irritants which could increase risk for cope with 19 by making the response tree tractor more susceptible to infection exacerbating existing inflammation and in juicing coughing

part from coronavirus related health concerns there are those posed by the tear gas is self prolonged exposure or a large dose of it especially in a closed setting could lead to blindness it can also result in severe chemical burns to the throat and lungs or spirit which can be fatal however for the wealthy as police commissioner still argues that riot control agents remain the safest way to disperse angry crowds the deployment of tear gas was a means to safely diffuse a volatile and dangerous situation and restore order when it became increasingly clear that other measures were ineffective in accomplishing that necessary objective however for all of us that lancaster university mohammed minear believes that concerns about the use of tear gas at this time are justified. actually that we look on to the display issue tract infection they are very easy to be transmitted and one of the contributing factors for the call of august 2 surprised

and take the whole word on nice they didn't for 5 months as being used to treat us through treatment of transformation so anything that can expose the respiratory tract or create a sugar damage or that a spirit or action is something that will certainly have the vitus to penetrate into the body otherwise we could probably be protected so therefore ready to comes to the street exacting section dampened i'm excited caller said julie did the keeping the upper respiratory tract healthy is lot more important and having the tear gas is certainly not a good choice in a biscuit condition in particular so someone who is impacted really grown a lot is or has asked them all or other cuomo to be deities in terms of this critique trackings actions or other are community diseases if they were to be under the tear gas or similar kind of type or even doc mean that david because the more and their heart coughing can lead the virus to trouble you any longer than to meet it is to us that we are really concerned so this means the widest transmission

would be even more can be explored many people in the vicinity would be little more exposed. washington's national back morning steve. we go to work. straight home. long we're seeing is a utter divorce an utter split from the real economy and the financial

lives funny money fed driven casino that is now taken over the globe this is causing to think big overlord class are becoming fabulously wealthy and the peasants are revolting they've got a good old fashioned prison revolt down america and we're not going that's your. welcome back now sweden's health minister says the country's taking precautions ahead of a potential 2nd wave of the corona virus that is despite serious doubts about the government's handling of the 1st way. it is true that the swedish rates of

mortality are comparatively high on certain days or weeks however it's also true that these kinds of comparisons tends to be a snapshot of the pandemic on a certain period of time we've managed to flatten the curve the health care system has coped well as expected the matelot the rates are decreasing slowly but steadily . for sweden took a much more relaxed approach compared to most other european countries with no strict lockdown imposed but there have been increasing questions about its success with even the state epidemiologist admitting that there were too many fatalities the whole situation sparked outrage from opposition parties. the government and the public health authority have been given chance after chance to correct their mistakes despite this the delays and the hand-wringing remain the swedish government has deliberately allowed a large spread of the disease in

a difficult crisis we will always be leaderless as long as this government isn't power. there have been obvious fundamental failures in sweden's covered response we didn't get protective equipment to cure homes in time although everyone knew that their residence where the most vulnerable well according to a recent poll there's been a significant drop in support for the government's response to the virus shows that the there's been a fall of 18 percent since april 10th or off see for an online newspaper and also a former member of the social democrat party is actually surprised there hasn't been more criticism. we have the high mortality rates i mean. of most countries. we are in a situation that other european countries are denying us the right to go there even our neighboring country won't allow us but they will allow the norwegians and the danes and i have understanding for that considering how this which government has handled this chronic crisis. but this is

a fact and testing was never important in fact the government authority that the government now sort of blames they said testing is unnecessary so just these 2 things prove more lies that the government's actions in this crisis has been wrong . and it's pretty obvious for the opposition parties to use that against the government because they have failed in in most ways so not only do they see the active politicians but the people of sweden see it also it's quite unbelievable. that the social democrats and authority hasn't gotten more critique than it has. now the international criminal court has slammed washington for sanctioning the organization saying that the court is effectively the last straw of hope for the victims of atrocities it does come shortly after the us secretary of state might pompei announced sanctions for the probe into us war crimes or claims of us war

crimes in afghanistan and he also gave a speech almost entirely dedicated to the greatness and exceptionalism of the united states and is more the story. donald trump has announced that sanctions are being imposed on the international criminal court it's being alleged that the institution violates the sovereignty of the united states trump ministrations taking the following actions. first we're authorizing the imposition of economic sanctions against i.c.c. officials directly engaged in i.c.c. efforts to investigate u.s. personnel or allied personnel against that allied states consent and against others who material support such officials activities instead of having the international criminal court monitor human rights around the world it seems that the united states government will take on this task all for its own mike pompei o the u.s.

secretary of state recently came out with a report describing religious freedom around the world and he touted the united states as the ideal in the speech mike pompei o trotted out the old image of an exceptional united states that stands above all others when it comes to liberty and freedom our nation is so special as the greatest nation in the history of civilization especially the challenges like the ones that we are confronting here in the united states today will be managed and on the will be a political process this thing gauged of the be wide open debate and are our core principles the the fact that we respect every human being because they are made in the image of god will be reflected in the way that the united states response to these challenges according to mike palm peo american discourse is free and open it's only an other countries apparently that mass protests are taking place. 5. 5. catley it's only in other

countries that peaceful protests are dispersed with tear gas and dissidents are arrested and held without charges only in foreign lands there's the political elite ignore the needs of the people and plow ahead building a police state no. not in america only 6 years ago congress was overwhelming would probe police militarization nancy pelosi eliot engel and over $330.00 lawmakers of both parties joined together to vote against representative grayson's amendment to end transfers of military equipment to local police and 2014 and of course america always respects the rights of journalists and freedom of the press we have received numerous reports of journalists attacked harassed and rested and detained in the course of their work over the protests in the united states against systemic racism and police brutality only in other lands to allies watch in horror at the mis handling of protests we all watch in horror and consternation what's

going on in the united states only in foreign lands that we see citizens begging the united nations to speak up for their rights the undersigned family members of victims of police killings and civil society organizations from around the world call on member states of the un human rights council to urgently convene a special session on the situation of human rights in the united states in order to respond to the unfolding grave human rights crisis borne out of the repression of nationwide protests you see the united states is exceptional it's got a perfect record it does not need an international criminal court and it's got solid ground to stand on and criticize other countries yeah well these days even many staunch u.s. allies might strongly disagree with that cable mop and r.t. new york and that brings up tonight with world events this saturday morning we're back again with the headlines and more stories in about 15 minutes from.

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