blow our brains out at any given time we can't really do anything actually america is the only country in the world where you can kill people. war and legally get away with. all the trouble. of playing the k.k.k. exists because america wants it to exist they are the biggest terrorist group ever operate in this country and they're dead to me they're worse than the people who destroyed the world trade center. there is a new wave of anti racism protests in london hundreds of demonstrators have surrounded

a statue of winston churchill which last week was. declaring him to be a racist. do something about the protests. of the city. using military force would be illegal. position to the government's relaxed approach to corona virus which resulted in one of the highest mortality rates in europe. by the great to have you with us. i said 1st to london where several anti racism demonstrations have been held today many a centered around the bookstop statue of winston churchill that's in parliament square. which last week was targeted by activists who sprayed he was

a racist on it police have imposed new restrictions demanding the protesters leave the streets by 5 pm local time in order to prevent violent clashes especially as counter-demonstrators are also planning to protest. ok let's get more on this and go live to the scene local reporter james brown is down there james what's the situation right now like in london. well here where we are in parliament square things are relatively peaceful this is the designated meeting place for right wing groups who say that they have come here to defend britain's cultural heritage to defend its monuments however there have been a number of clashes with police that have taken place throughout the day here where police were charged police had bottles thrown at them and we noticed 2 cameramen from different stations coming towards us with seriously bloodied faces who were obviously injured in other parts of london in trafalgar square there were also

clashes smoke was released what we think is a smoke bomb and fireworks were also let off of there so parts of the day have been more eventful than others but now things are relatively calm here in other parts of london in the black lives matter demonstrations they've been making their way from hyde park down towards to file the square how much of the controversy that surrounded the black lives matter protests has been around the vandalism and attacks on statues which are connected with britain's colonial past last week for instance in bristol the statue of at colston a slave trader was taken down thrown into the river and winston churchill who normally can be seen behind me here had his pedestal dog with the slogan was a racist now in response to that the mayor of london city can decided that he would board up this statue in a number of others mostly to protect it from any further damage now that decision has proved controversial and enlisted an angry response from the prime minister.

you've got a situation in which the statue of winston churchill who is a national hero has had to be boarded up for fear of violent attack and that to me is both absurd and and should not have a situation which people who are protesting on one basis are violently attacked he the police all public property. and it's not just politicians who have strong views on what's the con this is cited to do here we were out on the streets of london finding out exactly what locals think about civics qantas's into. the stratosphere it's where. i guess people are here to defend statues and i suppose people defended people trying to take a. look at things from both perspectives there's a lot of good history behind it people don't want to talk about the bad history and

that's one of the issues that's trying to be changed i didn't. realize a lot of things he'd done i never learned that. he outside. people should remember it was a lot hopping. and i think a lot of the statue should be taken down at the guy or involved in something but it was i think i just insulted for all the people who are living. in the seedy. now everything is very calm even the supporters who were here of stock singing there's been markedly less drink being consumed and same thing to be going along quite smoothly so far the police haven't had very much to do it's 5 o'clock is the official end of the protests here today and the supporters will be getting closer.

i'll be closer to trafalgar square fairly shortly so we will see what will happen but the police will of course be on their guard to make sure that the 2 opposing factions here do not meet each other. james brown with the latest for us from london thank you. protesters in the newly formed autonomous zone in seattle are considering their next move having seize control of the area after it was abundant by police president from threatened to send in the army though if 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 in 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 argue play 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 the capitol hill autonomous zone was formed at the beginning of the week by blank lives month or ranked of us they barricaded themselves inside 6 blocks in the center of seattle declaring it a police free zone activist deseret de loach explains what life is like inside the called me. i am down here in the capitol hill autonomous zone also known as chaz and the mood here is coming a peaceful 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 floyd rebellion as they're calling it that's what the wall 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 complete reallocation 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 goal for right now. b.l.m. protests continue in other parts of the city too on friday thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets in what they called a silent protest the rally came on the same day the federal judge ordered officers to temporarily stop using tear gas or pepper spray against protests in seattle. meanwhile the protests are showing no sign of easing in other us though it's either with the center of american commerce no exception new york's or demonstrators come out peacefully to support black lives matter of movement the rally coincided with

a women's empowerment march and ended with a joint plan for the demand has been reportedly starting out and trump tower you can see in holding plaque cards and chanting various demands those included defunding the police justice for george floyd and a focus on the lives of black women. side from the general public the black lives matter movement has the backing of major u.s. companies including amazon microsoft and starbucks however it seems that when it comes to the racial equality cause it's more talk than action that's good taylor explains. 21st century companies live in fear of castle culture of old tweed too i misjudged jokingly 20 hoss sentence in the court of public opinion so with black lies not to protests 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 by 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 too boy called them as well that ban on b.l.m. attire 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 uses coffee the sixpack to buy. slaves and what tamara kenyon costa rica and panama. remember when they wrote let's talk about racism on the cops remember when the close to half a day because 2 black men were arrested for being black at a starbucks as we always thought they're 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's and prada tweeted how how sick and insulted they were by 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 exploitation 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 in own problematic slave themed party the world of big tech is also massively promoting black lives matter not on to amazon then you'll be welcomed by the movement's banner 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 black and brown communities added into the mix that only 8 percent. of its managers in the u.s. a black and you'll see like slapping a b. and that on your home page doesn't quite make the cut as a black woman i feel like it is time to thoughts there's a help us troubles everyone wants to join in and profit from us and what microsoft has started posting messages from it's like employee east they don't mind and runs out of material pretty quickly given the less than 5 percent of its entire what is

black so we get it look couple of pages here an emotional peak that bathroom is a social media stunt the pundits will laugh it up and the books balance but it looks like as they went posted another where on instagram they forgot to put a padlock on that closet bursting with skeletons black rights movements have been famous across the united states since the 96 thinks one of the most controversial blood pump started by monitoring cops and challenging police brutality who discussed the current rise of the black lives massive movement along with current civil rights in america with renowned political activist and former black panther herself and julie davis you can watch the full interview on monday but for now here's a preview. i think the world is able to see that this nation is far from healthy that. police departments are the most

dramatic expression of structural racism that. prisons are full of black people and latinos that. that we have to have an abolitionist imagination if we want to get into a future for our city and i was standing nation and for the world's. police and the u.s. becoming increasingly stigmatized amid the ongoing black lives month to protest a major in the police department has been criticised for arguing officers and specifically targeting african-americans he says that he has the think is to back up what he's saying i had a chance to speak with him. you had those isolated incidents where i was going to 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 is not in the instance that occur we use force less than one percent of all arrestees and 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 force 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 whites in 2 percent and on what unarmed black so they're very even numbers and you know if that race isn't a factor generally those numbers should be even there's a real senior 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 miss laura 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 now why the recalls 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 america is it well funded now i see were we have gone astray in america is law enforcement speed task doing things that we never had to do from the mentally ill that that system is broken so law enforcement on a stronger that we end up you know about 60 percent of the people unfortunately at this country's are are mentally ill and forcing off which it doesn't always know that on it's funny and so i actually like trying to find some programs of the 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 from law enforcement and then asked law

enforcement do the same exact work just to be very difficult. still has a $1300.00 medics will thousands of protesters not be in danger of contracting covert 19 all because tig gas is helping his transmission from person to person to take a closer look after the break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the death. or inmate in the shallowness. health minister says the country's taking precautions and of a potential 2nd wave of the corona virus however there are still doubts and concerns about how the 1st wave itself 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 with managed to flatten the curve the health care system has coped well as expected the metallica rates are decreasing slowly but steadily. sweden took a much more relaxed approach compared to most other european countries with no strict lockdown imposed for the up and increasing questions about its success with even the state epidemiology just admitting there were too many fatalities the whole situation has 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 this way does 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. according to recent poll there's been a significant drop in support for the government's response to the virus shows a fall of 18 percent since april can't a rough c.e.o. for an online newspaper and a former member of the social democrat party is actually surprised that there hasn't been more criticism we have 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 with 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 lows 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 most ways so not only do they see that the politicians but the people of sweden see it's also it's quite unbelievable. the social democrats and authority hasn't gotten more critique than it has. this concern the use of tear gas could hugely increase the spread of covert 19 among protesters issues been highlighted in an open letter signed by almost 1300 us public health and medical professionals 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 3 irritants which

could increase risk for covert 19 by making the risk of tree tracked more sceptical to infection exacerbating existing inflammation and in juicing coughing part from coronavirus related health concerns there are other issues too prolonged exposure to the gas or a large dose especially in a close setting can lead to blindness it can also leave severe chemical burns of the throat and lungs and even deadly rasputin failure philadelphia's police commissioner phil argues right control agents remain the safest way of dispersing 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 in fact if in accomplishing that necessary objective how to do an air viral or just that the u.k.'s lancaster university believes concerns about the current use of tear gas are just defied. actually then we look on to the dispatcher track inspection they are very easy to be cross mated and one

of the contributing factors for the call of ideas to write and take the whole word on nice they didn't for 5 months as bait is true just through treatment of transmission so anything that can expose the respiratory track or create any additional damage to the spirit tract is something that would certainly help the virus to any trait into the body otherwise it could be probably protected so therefore ready to construct a straight exacting section and i'm excited cornell are certainly good at keeping the upper respiratory tract healthy is not very important and having to tear gas is certainly not a good choice in this condition in particular so someone who has interacted with a girl nobody has or has asked them all or 'd other cuomo to be ditties in terms of descriptive tracking sections or other are community diseases if they were to be under the tear gas or similar kind of type or even that mean that they become feeding more and heart coughing can lead the hardest to trouble you any longer

going to meet it is just that we are really good jokes so this means the lightest transmission would be even more having to explore many people in the vicinity would be a lot more exposed. international criminal court has slammed washington for sanctioning the organization saying that the court is a fight to the last hug for 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 for justice. to statement pompei owner of the sanctions in response to a probe into u.s. war crimes in afghanistan also gave a speech almost entirely dedicated to the greatness and exceptionalism of the united states and i'm open as a 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 administration is taking the following

actions. 1st 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 oh 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 this especially the challenges like the ones that we are confronting here in the united states today will be managed head 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. by. 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 as 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 with probe police militarization nancy pelosi elliott angle and of the $300.00 to $2.00

lawmakers of both parties joined together to vote against representative do. since amendment to end transfers of military equipment to mobile 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 him 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 do allies watch in horror at the mishandling of protests we all watch in horror 'd 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 up and r.t. new york. next thing without international updates coming your way in 30 minutes. what we're seeing is a utter divorce an utter blip from the real economy and the financial lives funny money fed driven casino that is now taking over the globe this is causing to think the overlord class are becoming fabulously wealthy and the peasants are revolting they've got a good old fashioned peasant revolt down america and we're not sure.

we're going underground ahead of tomorrow's down of us tree of the ground fire that killed 72 people in the london area where the poorest to live among the richest in the world could be a result of taurine a liberal star if he put profits over people coming on the show in the wake of the grim felon tragedies is the u.k. government institutionally racist we speak to people was just an activist loopy about the colonial mindset that lionizes winston churchill once great just now being branded led racist. for bristol to london is the time now to take back our.