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relaxed approach to the corona virus which resulted in one of the highest mortality rates. defended the boxtops churchill in london's parliament square which last week was targeted by activists who sprayed he was a racist on it imposed restrictions demanding protesters leave the streets by 5 pm local time to prevent violent clashes between the 2 sides. 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 file 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 culson 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 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 counts isn't to board up the structures here in holland square 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 would. museum or in school with. people should remember it was a lot of pop and. i don't think a lot of the statue should be taken down after gags or bold itself and bought the pots i think it should be business insulting for all the people living in the world to be to see the. thousands of demonstrators came out in the center of paris on saturday protesting against police brutality and widespread discrimination. i. protest called by the black lives matter movement so protesters climb

a building to turn down a huge banner denouncing white racism a band that had been placed there by a group of far right activists from the generation identity and to racism demonstrators also jumped on statues held flares and marched with signs the peaceful rallies took place despite a national coronavirus related ban on gatherings of more than 10 people is trying to disperse demonstrators with tear gas. it is essential to improve the system because we are talking about systematic violence here it's not just police violence there is up here 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 there because of the movies 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 the face 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 or enforcement marched along nations elisei carrying banners no police. no peace alongside marked cars that honked their horns in a similar demonstration the day before officers threw hank of son to the ground

comes after the french interior minister banned police from using chokeholds in the arrests describing them as a dangerous method the general secretary the french police union is refusing to budge. to. the statement by christopher guest and they are 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 collation of the situation in the police christopher custer near should revise the current stance on this and confirm in the matter of hours that this ban will not be introduced moreover a list of new methods should be introduced there will be as effective and provide safety for my colleagues otherwise the police protests going on right now across france will continue. protesters in the newly formed autonomous zone in seattle look at setting their next move having seize control of the area after it

was abandoned by police president trump asserted dissent in the army if local authorities fail to resolve the matter. we're not to let this happen in seattle if we have to go and we're going to go into governor's you're going to do it but to go to do it he's got great national guard troops he 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. the capitol hill autonomous zone was formed at the beginning of the week by black blogs much practice they barricaded themselves inside 6 blocks in the center of seattle and declared to the police for resigned to

his desire a dillo checks planes a lot of his like insulin to come in. and down here in the capitol hill autonomous zone also known as chavez and the mood here is completely peaceful you can see it over here. we've got people really get some food and over here we also have free pizza drinks water all types of snacks that people handing out bags we 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 wall says over there is they could constitute 24 hour vigil people can make candles and you know say their prayers just just hang out this is the west entrance to the capitol hill autonomous zone back there we have the precincts which is where this is where

most of the violence was connected by the you. for the last few 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 and staying as long as possible. there have been several tents that have already been said people are preparing to stay overnight i mean i would say that i could see 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 vote to disband minneapolis police were calling for the same thing here in seattle we're calling for a complete defunding of the police a complete reallocation into black and brown community is where it's needed the most and so that is definitely the people. i would say the number one golfer right

now. protests are continuing in other parts of the city on friday thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets in what they call a silent protest rally came on the same day as a federal judge ordered officers to temporarily stop using. protesters in. the more protests showed no sign of easing in other u.s. states but the center of american commerce no exception new york shore demonstrators come out peacefully to support the black last month a movement for the rallies that coincided with the women's empowerment march ended with a joint but for the demand reportedly starting from trump tower. holding placards and chanting various demands including defunding police justice for george floyd and the focus on the lives of black women. so i'm for the general public the gloves are to movement has the backing of major u.s. companies. microsoft and starbucks but it seems that when it comes to the racial

equality cause it is more talk than action. 21st century companies live in fear of castle culture of long tweed too i misjudged joe can lead to a 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 phoned up 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 to boy called them as well that ban on b.l.m. attire was late 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 scoffed at the 6 tracked by. slaves and what tamara kenyon costa rica and panama. remember when they were 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 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 how how sickened and somehow did they work 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 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 than own problematic slave themed party the world of big tech is also massively promoting black lives matter no answer as a man 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 amazon 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 proprietary policy center acknowledges that are clearly

targeting and harming black and brown communities and into the mix that only ate the said. of its managers in the u.s. a black and you'll see why slapping a bad 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 like employees they don't mind and runs out of material pretty quickly given the less than 5 percent of its entire what force is black so we get it look couple of pages here in emotional peak that bathroom in 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 bursting with skeletons. we see in the us are facing increasing hostility amid the ongoing black lives matter protests

a major in the police department has been criticized for insisting officers on targeting african-americans he has the figures to back it up it's an issue i discussed with em. 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 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 back 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 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 shot unarmed and 2 percent of one or more 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 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 it we'll find it now i think we're 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 city 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 like trying to spawn some programs of the law enforcement to try to take some of that burden away small 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. so stay with stay longer if you count more news after this break. max kaiser's financial advice they say money the bellatrix. pledge is it this is a central bank supported by a plumber is going to call them right now so you stop to.

welcome back sweden's health minister says of the countries taking precautions ahead of a potential 2nd wave of the corona virus however there are still doubts and concerns about how the 1st wave 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 mortality rates are decreasing slowly but steadily. sweden took a much more relaxed approach compared to most other european countries with no strict lockdown imposed but have been increasing questions about its success with even the state of virginia ologist admitting that there were too many fatalities the whole situation is 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 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 and a rough c.e.o. for an online newspaper and 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 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 or less 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 this authority hasn't gotten more critique than it has. little trump ours reiterated that the united states is not the world's policeman marking

a shift from claims made by former president in a speech to the west point military academy trump also pledged to stop america lead and this was across the globe the us president has made similar pronouncements in his 1st campaign we are ending the era. of endless wars it is not the duty of u.s. ships to solve ancient conflicts in faraway lens. that many people have never even heard of. we are not the policemen of the world they've dragged us into foreign wars that make us less they shipped our jobs or wealth to other countries and they left our borders wide open their home. to an official michael maloof joins me a great to have you on michael what did you think of that speech do you really believe donald trump when he says he wants to put an end to america's overseas

conflicts. but that's not that's what donald trump wants at the reality is that the trumpet ministration with its neo conservative. leadership such as pop a 0. vice president. and others are showing just the opposite they are. they are rejiggering us forces now to confront china i mean if he doesn't and will remain in indefinitely not only in iraq but also in syria and we're aiming and we have 34 bases by the way surrounding iran so if if if he wants to he's got to it's got to put action were where his mouth is at this point and and start bringing back u.s. troops or reposition them and give maybe new jobs. because the u.s. us. u.s. has. the u.s.

has basically. the u.s. has basically. assumed the role continue role of being the world policeman and it's got to stop and and when you listen to the people in his administration. we're continuing to act as though we are maintaining that position for example the threats that were made to intervene and intercept ships on the high seas for that matter of iraq iranian ships going into venezuela we have no business. even threatening that you said in the beginning to run so that this is what donald trump wants to you know stop a involvement in conflicts around the world he's obviously made these pledges before 5 years ago he hasn't been able to do thing really to make this come to become a reality so him saying all this again is this just a case of some early electioneering do you think this is what the base wants to

hear. it's wishful thinking on his part but again he's not in control of his own administration it's very clear to me at this point that. other people really guide his administration and and given everything else that's occurred such as coronavirus the extra extraordinary level of unemployment as a consequence and now internal disorder his his attention is being diverted tremendously and this is allowing those with their own agendas within his administration to continue doing this now i know what he said that the so the cadets at west point it sounds good it's great rhetoric but but it's still america 1st and and the nia conservatives are still going to push their agenda that if you don't go along with our democracy we're going to shoot it into your heads we have 12 carrier task forces around the world and if if he was really serious it

would be cutting back on those and we would be focusing more internally and affect the reality on the ground in the united states as we need to be looking to. fend for tend to take care of our own business for a change because we have a lot we have extraordinary problems internally and we should not be dictating to other people what their. government should be doing or or what they should be. undertaking and who and try to interfere and take over and occupy distant lands as we have been doing historically it's it's crazy. someone who would within the pentagon think least these comments will cause particular concern within the defense ministry in the united states. you know the old norm they guys they have they because you're have to you're going to have a big military it's

a self-serving thing you're going to have a big military you've got to have crises and it's a it's a symbiotic relationship in order to justify having military you've got a point to various crisis and that's why he's developed one against not only russia but also against china and as a consequence it's actually hardened the positions in both of those countries and as a consequence now we have a new arms race about ready to kick off and this is this is feeding into that narrative of trying to maintain a strong military when when we have basically created our own problems in many ways and now we're doing it again toward iran and iran has basically said look if you attack us we're going to hit one of your 34 bases in our region and that has actually tended to make donald trump stand back to a little bit but and i think that this is but also you have countries such as saudi

arabia that now bill feel that they can no longer trust the security of the united states to protect them as they used to because of because of other priorities that the united states is the pellets so it's it is a policy in flux the united states is shifting more toward. asia even though it's trying to even the elements within the trump administration are are trying to keep a presence in in the middle east and and in the balkans i would add because they want to impede russian as well as chinese growing influence into those regions particularly with their belt road initiative not just military but also economic and political influence that is now filling that void as a consequence of the diminished power of the united states. many thanks to my guest

this hour a former pentagon official michael maloof thank you. pleasure. wraps things up very nicely for they say our appreciate you company stay without say a dice and often. we go to work so you straight home. join me every socially on the elec simon sure.