there's been a new wave of racism protests in london hundreds of the demonstrators have surrounded a statue. which last week was. declaring him a racist. the. thousands of protesters come out in paris against police brutality and violence. and threatens to send the army to seattle if authorities don't do something about the protesters who occupy part of the city on the on the side of the city's mayor

says the music religion for the illegal. parties lash out at the government's relaxed approach to the corona virus which resulted in one of the highest mortality rates in europe. great to have you with us this evening this is r.t. international. first to london where several anti racism demonstrations are being held on saturday many of them are centered around the boxtops that you wouldn't churchill that's in parliament square last week she was targeted by activists sprayed he was a racist on it police have imposed new restrictions the demand the protesters leave the streets by 5 pm local time in order to prevent violent clashes with counter-demonstrators also planning to protest local journalist james brown reports from parliament square. 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 in other parts of london in the black lives matter demonstrations they've been making their way from hyde park down towards to follow the square and 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 edward 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 especially to protect it from any further damage now that decision has proved controversial and elicited 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 wrong you should not have a situation which people who are protesting on one basis are violently tacky the police are public property and it's not just politicians who have strong views on what city can this is sided to do here we were out on the streets of london.

finding out exactly what locals think about 6 qantas isn't to board up the stratosphere in harm's way i guess people are here to defend statues and i support people defending their 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 bad history and that's one of the issues that's trying to be changed i didn't realise he was racist i didn't realise a lot of things he'd done i never learned and i certainly wouldn't learn it from the stuff he outside i guess i just i would. people should remember it was a lot but. i don't think a lot of the statue should be taken down after gags or ball itself and by the past i think i just soaked in for all the people who are living life to the cd it's 5 o'clock is the official end of the protests here today and the matter supporters

will be getting closer they'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. thousands of anti racism demonstrators came out in the center of paris on saturday. people were saying jumping on statues and flares and anti-racism banners the protesters called by the black lives matter movement. it is essential to improve the system because we are talking about systematic violence here it's not just police violence there is obviously is discrimination overall inequality goes way too deep we need to reform the system in order to create equal conditions for all of. those with no support we need to support this battle against racism this is extremely important it's our duty as french people now after

everything this happened. to join their people you know this is this is special day for us because we're showing our support for the families of those who passed away far too early those who were commemorating today besides we are protesting against the violence we've been facing in the pol districts for a long time now this demonstration is a possibility to speak up to deliver a point and express our anger with the situation. i think something historic is happening now in france i came here today to support those faced discrimination was experienced as well i can see that people with different skin color than ours are treated differently this is happening in poor districts as well as demonstrations i came here to support those people being treated differently. meanwhile $10000.00 officers took to the streets of paris on friday against new government measures to ban chokeholds during arrests law enforcement marched along the shores ellie's a carrying banners no police no peace alongside mark cars honking their horns in

a similar demonstration the day before officers through on to the ground comes after the french interior minister ban police from using chokeholds in arrests describing it as a dangerous method of the general secretary of the french police union is refusing to budge. the statement by christopher customer of this monday is unacceptable he was talking about ben in choke holes in the rest but this is used to an identification just like i and my colleagues were told we are using this method against those who resist identity checks or arrests you know that to avoid this collision of the situation in the police christopher cluster near should revise the current stance on this and confirm in a matter of hours that this ban will not be introduced moreover a list of new methods should be introduced that would be as effective and provide safety for my colleagues otherwise the police protests going on right now across france will continue. the protesters in the newly formed autonomous zone in

seattle are considering their next to me of having seize control of the area after it was abandoned by police president trump threatened to send in the army if local authorities failed 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 you look 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 the great surely 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 start of the week by black lives matter activists they barricaded themselves inside

6 blocks in the center of seattle declaring it a police free zone activist there's a very dilute she explains what life is like inside the commune. i am 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 floyd rebellion as they're calling it that's what the law says if there is they could constitute 24 hour vigil people can like 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 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 barricade points and inside is the autonomous zone people are anticipating on staying as long as possible there in 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. great now. and b.l.m. protests are continuing in other parts of the city on friday thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets and more they called a sign that the protests rally came on the same day federal judge ordered officers to temporarily stop using tear gas or pepper spray against the protests in seattle . we want protests showing no sign of easing in other us states with the center of american commerce no exception new york's or demonstrators come out peacefully to support the black lives matter movement and the rally coincided with a women's empowerment march and ended with a joint platform crowds gathered in manhattan reportedly starting out from trump tower people who see it holding play cards and chanting various demands including defunding the police justice for george fraud and

a focus on the lives of black women. were side from the general public the black lives part of movement has the backing of major u.s. companies think loued amazon microsoft and starbucks but it seems that when it comes to the racial equality because it is more talk than action it's a skill tailor explains. 21st century companies live in fear of kant's cult of old tweets who 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 find the problem is they forgot to do a background check on themselves just found out starbucks is key to ring to the comfort of their resist 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 to boycott them as well that by the end of the tire was. it

was too late because by then incensed activist had gotten a parking space not. the car it's history and sure now starbucks got schooled by its 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 secretly prada tweeted how how sickened and sad did they were by inequality and how they were companies 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 them problematic slave themed party the world of big tech is also massively promoting black lives matter not on $10000.00 men will 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 i was and makes a tidy sum from its dealings with the police it is opportunistic a furnace 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 pre-treat policy center colleges that are clearly targeting and harming black and brown communities and into the mix there are only 8. 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 empty 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 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 couple of pages here an emotional peak that bathroom is a social media stunt the pundits will laugh it up and the books will balance but it looks like posted another where on instagram they forgot to put

a padlock on that closet busting with skeletons. loose in the us are facing increasing hostility amid the ongoing black lives mounted protests a major in the told police department has been criticised for insisting officers on targeting african-americans. he has the figures to back it up it's an issue i discussed with him. you have 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 is 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 back 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 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 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 talk about we've got to be able to have 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 is it well funded now i think were we have gone astray in america is law enforcement has 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 60 percent of the people unfortunately at this country's are are mentally ill and forcing off which doesn't always know that on a sunny and so i actually. why 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 some law enforcement and then asked law enforcement do the same exact work just to be very good but. $1300.00 medics warm but thousands of protesters might be in danger of contracting coded $190.00 because to gas transmission from person to person we took a closer look after a short break. you

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welcome back sweden's hope minister says the country's taking precautions of a potential 2nd wave of the corona virus but there are still doubts and concerns about how 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 with managed to flatten the curve the health care system has coped well as expected the taliban rates are decreasing slowly but steadily.

would took a much more relaxed approach compared to most other european countries with a strict lockdown imposed will have been increasing questions about its success even the state epidemiologist admitted that there were too many fake tellus the whole situation sparked outrage from the 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 according to a recent poll there's been a significant drop in support for the government response to the virus shows a fall of 800 percent in support it's a problem and error off c.e.o.

for an online newspaper and a former member of the social democrat party it's 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 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 loads 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 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 the issue has been highlighted in an open letter signed by almost 1300 us public health and medical professionals it comes amid the nationwide protest against racism that has 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 covert 19 by making the risk of tree tracked more sceptical to infection exacerbating existing inflammation and in juicing coughing apart from coronavirus related health concerns there are other issues too prolonged exposure to the gas or a large dose especially in a closed setting can lead to blindness it also leaves severe chemical burns of the

throat and lungs even deadly risperidone failure philadelphia's police commissioner still argues right control agents remain the safest way to disperse 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 $101.00 area viral or just to the u.k. lancaster university believes concerns about the current use of tear gas 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 being it's true just retrieval of transmission so anything that can expose the respiratory track or create any additional damage to the spirit track is something that would certainly help divide us to any trade into the body otherwise we could

probably protect it so be it for 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 is infected with a girl nobody has or has asked them all or other cuomo to be deities in terms of this for tracking sections or other our community diseases if they were to be under the tear gas or similar kind of type or even that mean that david because feeding more and heart coughing can lead the widest to trouble you want even more having to explore many people in the vicinity would be a lot more exposed to. the international criminal court to slam to washington for sanctioning the organization saying that the court is effectively the last 4 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 so to statement bumppo now has the sanctions a response to a probe into us war crimes in afghanistan he also gave the speech $42.00 almost in a speech almost entirely dedicated to the greatness and exceptionalism of the united states in the more pics of 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 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. 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 $350.00 lawmakers of both parties joined together to vote against representative grayson's amendment to end transfers of military equipment to mobile 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 cable mop and r.t. new york. what you got international thanks for staying with us i'll return.

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