well reducing our. that's undercutting what's good for markets good for the global economy. the headlines this hour donald trump threatens to send in the army into seattle to flow call authorities don't do something about protesters occupied part of the city and declared it's an autonomy this is now that he says using the military would be illegal also this hour the international criminal court slams washington for imposing sanctions on launching an investigation into u.s. war crimes in afghanistan and swedish opposition seems lash out at the government's relaxed approach to the growing the virus that's resulted in one of the highest mortality rates in europe.

hello there good morning it's saturday the 13th of june you're watching r.t. international worst scum 11 o'clock am in moscow protesters in the newly formed autonomy in seattle they're considering their next move having seize control of the area after it was abandoned by police president 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 there is you going to do it but to go to do it he's got great national guard troops to iraq 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 while the capitol hill autonomous zone was formed at the beginning of the week by black lives matter activists they barricaded themselves inside 6 blocks in the center of seattle and declared it a police free zone activist is there explains what life is like inside the coming. i am down here in the capitol hill autonomous zone also known as chaz and the mood here is come a peaceful bit you can see it over here. we've got people really get some food and over here we also have free pizza at some drinks 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 floyd rebellion as they're calling it that's what the the law says of in there there's a good constant 24 hour vigil people can light candles and you know say their prayers see you know just just hang out this is the west entrance to the capitol hill autonomous zone back there we have the the precinct 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 barricade points and inside is the autonomous so 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 ban or 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. great now the views of an activist there in seattle meanwhile protests still ongoing in other u.s. states to the heart of u.s. commerce no exception new york saw protesters come out peacefully to support the black lives matter movement the protests coincided with the women's empowerment march and ended with a joint platform crowds gathered in manhattan reportedly starting out from trump tower people were seen holding placards and chanting demands various demands they included the funding the police justice for george floyd and also

a particular focus on the lives black women aside from public support the black lives matter movement has been given the backing of major u.s. companies to like amazon microsoft and starbucks however it does seem their actions aren't speaking louder than their words starsky taylor explains. 21st century companies live in fear of castle culture along tweed to i misjudged joe can lead to a hoss sentence in the court of public opinion so with black lies not to protest sweeping the globe every business is clamoring to say they are part of the fight the problem is they forgot to do a background check on themselves just found out starbucks is catering to the comfort of their racist customers but i asking 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 boy called them as well that bag ought to be end of the tire was

laid for a bus but it was too late because by then incensed activist had gotten a pumpkin spice latte fuel deep ties to the company's history and sure enough starbucks got salted by its own hypocrisy starbucks use a scoff at the 6 tracked by. slaves and what tamara kenyon costa rica and panama in the close to half a day because 2 black men were arrested for being black at a starbucks as we always thought 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 secretly prada tweeted how how sickened and sad did they were make inequality and how they were companies the 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 asked for

vogue 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 an own problematic. slave themed party the world of big tech is also massively promoting. not on towers and then you'll be welcomed by the movement and jeff bezos is publicly naming and shaming customers to send to me emails because of the company's starts which would be a full proof plan to boost your popularity than to make another couple of 100000000 if it wasn't for the fact that i wasn't 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 colleges that are clearly targeting and harming blake and brown communities added into the mix that only 8 percent of its managers in the us are black and you will see why slapping a new on your home page doesn't quite make the cut as a black woman i feel like it is time to boards there's a help us troubles everyone wants to join in and profit from us and what microsoft has started posting messages from its black employees but if i do runs out of material pretty quickly given the less than 5 percent of its entire workforce is black so we get it got a couple of pages here an emotional piece that bathroom in a social media stunt the pundits will laugh it up and the books will stay balanced but it looks like posted another where on instagram they forgot to put a padlock on that closet busting with skeletons. in the u.k.

prime minister boris johnson has said it is shameful true winston churchill this needed to be boarded up to protect it against activists. you've got a situation in which the statue of winston churchill who is a national hero this had to be boarded up for fear of violent attack and that to me is both absurd and and wrong you should not have a situation which people who are protesting or for one bases are vile that be attacking the police or public property the church will start she was encased in a protective box after protesters thought he was a racist under his name last week churchill let the allies to victory in the 2nd world war but is now being accused of racism for some comments he once made london's mayor this week ordered a review of all monuments and street names that praise people who might be linked

to slavery and racism the war on statues to spark debate and whether it actually raises the past we asked people in the capital for their views. i guess people are here to defend certain statues in our support vehicle defend it or you support people trying to take it down so i try to look at things from both perspectives there's a lot of good history behind it people don't want to talk about the burgess tree. one of the issues is trying to be changed i didn't realize he was racist i didn't realize a lot of things he'd done i never learned that i certainly would learn it from the stuff he outside. but i would. pray he does learn some museum or in school which is actually still in school people should remember that was a lot harder than. i think a lot of the statue should be take it down to gods or gold suffered by the past i think it should be no business insulting for all the people who are living in

a world where they have to be the cd. now over in the united states the house speaker nancy pelosi is leading the fight against confederate statues on capitol hill she's 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 sure isn't against united to know and this judge is a shield a bit harsh if state showed him here because her comments that he come amid the current campaign in the country to take down symbols of the confederacy in norfolk virginia a statue of a confederate soldier has been removed after standing in its place for more than 100 years however official stated the decision to take it down was made out of safety concerns in portsmouth a man that suffered serious injuries after being hit by a statue that was toppled by demonstrators in total for statues of being beheaded

in the city we discuss the war on monuments with a host of r.t. america's own 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 discuss the current rise of the black lives matter movement along with current civil rights in america with the renowned political activist and former black panther angela davis you can watch the interview in full here not a on monday but has a taste of what was said. i think the well is able to see that this certain nation is far from healthy that. police departments

are the most dramatic expression of structural racism the. prisons so full of black people and latinos that. we have to have an abolitionist imagination if we want to get into a future for our city and standing nation and for the world's. police in the us are becoming increasingly stigmatized amid the ongoing black lives matter protests and major in the talks the police department has been criticized for arguing offices on specifically targeting african-americans and he says that he has the figures to back up what he saying he spoke with neil harvey. you had those isolated incidents rifles and go incidents that occur and especially on body camera video they're shown over and over again so i think the general public thinks that's

happening all the time 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 where all hell that's going to rob pointed that i would encourage your audience your 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 talk simply about the unarmed individual shot by law enforcement if you break it down between african-american and white it's 3 percent unarmed white satin arm 2 percent and on what unarmed black so they're very even numbers and you know it's race isn't a factor generally those numbers should be even there's a real senior here in the states to actually talk about. 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 forever you know 50 years. can you understand why the recalls even look a public movement to defund the police forces 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 that you've got to really think about law enforcement america is it well funded now i think were we have gone astray in america is law enforcement speak tasked with doing things that we never had to do from the mentally ill that that system is broken so law enforcement stronger that we end up you know about 60 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 stay on some programs of the law enforcement to try to take some of that burden away small force what you can't do

is you can't take funding from law enforcement and then asked law enforcement do the same exact work just to be very sick but. still to come this hour 300 medics one that thousands of protesters might be in danger of contracting cave 19 all because gas is helping its transmission from person to person we'll take a closer look just after the break. financial guy i don't buy it i'm honest. i'm surprised. as i have some advice for the future cracker what's kaiser.

again now there's concern that take gas could dramatically increase the spread of hiv 19 among protesters the issue has been highlighted in the open letter signed by

almost 1300 u.s. public health and medical professionals it comes amid the nationwide protest against racism that's been raging for 2 and a half weeks. opposing the use of tear gas smoke or other respect tree irritants which could increase risk for covert 19 by making the response tree tracked more susceptible to infection exacerbating existing inflammation and in juicing coughing apart from coronavirus related health concerns there are other issues to explore exposure or a large dose of it especially in a close setting could lead to blindness it can also result in severe chemical burns to the throat and lungs or respect failure which could be fatal however philadelphia's 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 the volatile and dangerous situation and restore order

when it became increasingly clear that other measures were ineffective in accomplishing that necessary objective for all of us that lancaster university mohammed minear believes that concerns about the use of tear gas at this time though are justified. actually then we look on to the dispatcher track inspection they are very easy to be cross mentioned and one of the contributing factors for the call of augustine's right and take the whole word on nice they didn't for 5 months as bait is true just retrieval of prosecution so anything that can expose the respiratory track or create any additional damage to the spirit of traction is something that would certainly help provide us to any trade into the body otherwise we could probably protect it so dear forget it comes to the state exacting section deafened i'm excited cornell are certainly good at keeping the upper respiratory tract healthy is not what i'm told and having the tear gas is certainly not a good choice in

a biskit condition in particular so someone who is impacted really grown a lot as well as ask them all or other cuomo to be deities in terms of this pretty attacking sections or other our community diseases if they were to be under the tear gas or similar kind of or even doc mean that they become feeding more and heart coughing can lead to the lightest of trouble you any longer going to meet it is to study we are really good jokes so this means the largest transmission would be even more having to explore many people in the vicinity how would be able or exposed to. the international criminal court has slammed washington for sanctioning the organizations saying the court is effectively the last hope for the victims of atrocities. an attack on the i.c.c. represents an attack against the interests of victims of atrocity crimes for many of whom the court represents the last hope for justice the u.s. secretary of state might pump a 09 sanctions in response to upright been to u.s.

war crimes in afghanistan he also gave a speech to my son time dedicated to the greatness and exceptionalism of the united states reports. 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 it's 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 prove 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 in 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 arrested 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 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 born out of the repression of nationwide protests you seem 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 it will mop and r.t. new york sweden's health minister says the country is taking precautions ahead of a potential 2nd wife with a coronavirus however there are still dads and concerns too about had the 1st wife was handled. 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 mortality rates are decreasing slowly but steadily or sweden took a much more relaxed approach compared to most of the european countries with no strict lockdown imposed but there have been increasing questions about its success with even the state epidemiologist admitting there were too many fatalities the whole situation a 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 difficult crisis we will always be leaderless as

long as this government is in power. there have been obvious fundamental failures in sweden's covered response we didn't get protective equipment to care homes in time although everyone knew that their residence where the most vulnerable or according to a recent poll there's been a significant drop in support for the government's response to the virus it shows a fall of 18 percent since april kenda are off c.e.o. 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 or less that the government's actions in this crisis has been wrong. and it's pretty obvious for the opposition parties to use it 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 just been at our past levon the morning here in moscow that seventies for now here now to go back again to a toughie. there

was a period let's call it the uni polar you know period after the end of the cold war with the u.s. and nato countries and other people sort of wanted russia to become what they described as a normal country what they meant by normal was a country that was democratic by western standards that was capitalist that was a member of u.s. led international rules graced the water established by the u.s. i think a lot of people saw that as sort of permanent 2nd class status in the u.s. led system and i think it's pretty clear that russia in particular has been pushing back on that.

max kaiser this is the kaiser report this is your cap inspecting we're starting to enter terribly close place fast and you're so bruce. well i think you might be talking about our stock markets these days driven by fed liquidity and well whole bunch of people in america 100 over 100000000 got free money remember and free money what do you do you spend free money you go crazy with free money it's like walking into the casino and they give you some pretty drinks and free chips and they say go at it well not a single s. and p. 500 stock is down over the last 10 weeks today was a 3rd straight day with over 6000000000 shares traded on the nasdaq all of which have been higher than any day in history to put that in.