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president trump threatens to deploy the army to seattle if the authorities there don't crack down on protesters occupied part of the city and declared it in a zone but the city's mayor says using military force would be illegal. for. hundreds of far right demonstrators defend a statue of winston churchill in central london after it was dogged with graffiti frenzy the wartime leader a racist. thousands

of anti-racism protesters flood the streets of paris to denounce police brutality and to stand in solidarity with the demonstrators in the united states. and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team international i'm sean thomas really glad to have you with us right now the mayor of seattle has responded furiously to a threat by donald trump to deploy the military to her city to break up an autonomous zone set up by black lives matter protesters jenny durkan said any such action by the u.s. president would be against the law 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 lives matter activists they barricaded themselves inside 6 blocks in the center of seattle and declared it a police free area activist deseret. 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 for the 1000000000 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 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 have been several tents that have already been set up people are preparing to stay overnight main goal i would say that i could say right now is that people are they calling for the defunding of

police you know nationwide we've seen this minneapolis city council. already you know completely just then vote to disband the minneapolis police were calling for the same thing here in seattle we're calling for a complete defunding of the police a completely allocation and to black and brown community is where it's needed the most and so that is definitely a goal of people. i would say the number one. right now. and a b.l.m. protests are continuing in other parts of the city as well on friday fountains of demonstrators marched through the streets and what they called a silent protest rally came on the same day as a federal judge ordered officers to temporarily stop using tear gas or pepper spray against the protests in seattle. and with police officers in the u.s. facing growing hostility a major in the police department in tulsa oklahoma has come under fire for claiming

that african-americans aren't being unfairly targeted travis yates well he has figures to back that up so he says earlier my colleague neil harvey spoke to him. you had those isolated incidents rifles and go and since that her and especially on body camera video they're shown over and over again so i think the general public thinks that's happening in the states we make 350000000 contacts year and obviously the fast majority of those are not in the instance that occur we use force less than one percent of all arrestees but when that mistake happens you know we're all healed and that's going to role play into that 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 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 we've got to be able to we can at least talk about those facts it's really hard to move forward a problem solve a piece of power and use of excessive force by police in the us who goes right back to the civil rights movement has been going on for a you know 50 is. can you understand why there are coals even like a public movement to defund the police force do you think that that is the right direction to go in given that the problems have been around for so long isn't it time to try something different or is this the case of just making a bad situation worse if you if you start to defund that's a huge huge decision and you've got to really think about law enforcement in america 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 on

a 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 other than law enforcement to try to take some of that burden away from law enforcement what you can't do is you can't take funding from law enforcement and then asked law enforcement do the same exact work just to be very good press. aside from the general public of 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 as artie's saskia taylor explains transfer century companies live in fear of castle culture of lone tree 2 i misjudged 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 see

a part of 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 boycott them as well that ban on the end of the tire was late for a bus but it was too late because by then incensed activists have gotten a parking space not if you die it's the company's history and sure enough starbucks got pulled it by it's own hypocrisy starbucks uses coffee the 6 tracked by 18 year old slaves and what to molly 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 there are only about black lives matter when it's

convenient luckily for starbucks though it's not taking all the heat as other companies also suffer from selective memory fashion powerhouses i victoria's secret and prada tweeted have how sickened and sudden 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 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 him own 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 if it wasn't for the fact that i was in big zip tied some 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 colleges that are clearly targeting and harming black and brown communities and into the mix there are only 8 percent of its managers in the us a black eye you'll see why slapping a banner on your home page doesn't quite make the cut. as a black woman i feel like it is time to boortz there's a help us troubles everyone wants to join in and profit from us and what microsoft has started posting messages from it's like increased their own mind and runs out

of material pretty quickly given the less than 5 percent of its entire what force is black so we guess it looks like she's here that bathroom in a social media stunt the pundits will laugh it up and the books will stay balanced but it looks like they went and posted another on instagram and they forgot to put a padlock on that closet busting with skeletons. right when demonstrators have defended the boxed up statue of winston churchill in london's parliament square which last week was targeted by activists who sprayed he was a racist on it police have imposed restrictions demanding protesters leave the streets by 5 pm local time to prevent a violent clashes between the 2 sides journalist james brown reports now 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 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 every cult in the slave trade 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 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 attacking the police or 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's locals think about cities can decision to board up the statue here in harm's way i guess people are here to defend statues and i support people defended you know you support people trying to take you down so i tried to look at things from both perspectives there's a lot of good tissue. behind it a lot of the stuff should be taken down to bags or gold and something odd that the

pots i think speak that this isn't so good for all the people who are living in a world where that should be the cd. thousands of anti-racism demonstrators gathered in the center of paris on saturday to protest against police brutality and why it spread discrimination. i think i can protest called by the black lives that matter movement saw protestors quietly building to tear down and kids banners denouncing anti-white racism the banner had been placed there by a group of far right activists from the generation identity anti-racism demonstrators also jumped on statues held flares and marched with signs. marginally peaceful rallies took place despite a nationwide coronavirus related ban on gatherings of more than 10 people police tried 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 obviously is discrimination overall inequality that goes way too deep we need to reform the system in order to create equal conditions for all. those with no support we need to support this battle against racism this is extremely important because it's our duty as french people now after everything this happened. to join their people feel this is a special day for us because we're showing our support for the families of those host the way far too early those who were commemorating today besides we are protesting against the violence we've been facing in the poor 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 that was experienced as well i can see that people with different skin colors and

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 on the other side of the coin around 10000 officers took to the streets of paris on friday against a new government measures to ban. chokeholds during arrests law enforcement marched along the shall say carrying banners no police no peace alongside marked cars honking their horns in a similar demonstration the day before officers threw handcuffs on the ground it comes after the french interior minister banned police from using chokeholds and arrest describing it as a dangerous method but the general secretary of the french police union is refusing to budge. the statement because the focus today on 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 custom issued revised 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. there is 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's been raging for 2 and a half weeks oppose any use of tear gas smoke or other responders 3 irritants which could increase risk for covert 19 by making the response track to more sceptical to infection exacerbating existing inflammation and in juicing coughing. apart from

coronavirus related health concerns there are other issues as well prolonged exposure to the gas or a large dose especially in a closed setting can lead to blindness it can also leave severe chemical burns of the throat and lungs and even deadly respiratory failure but philadelphia's police commissioner still argues not riot control agents remain the safest way to disperse crowds the deployment of tea gas was a means to safely diffuse a volatile and dangerous situation and restore order when it became increasingly clear that all the measures been effective in accomplishing that necessary objective mohammad moon erin. lancaster university believes concerns about the current use of tear gas are justified. actually when 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 ideas to spread and take the whole word

on nice they didn't for 5 months as being a stress free treatment of course we should so anything that can expose the respiratory tract or create any additional damage to the disorder tract 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 comes to the street attacking section democrat i'm excited for nobody said julie did the keeping the up to rescue the faculty is not more important and having to tear gas is certainly not a good choice in a biscuit condition in particular to someone who is in fact a really grown up ideas or has asked for more or other people motivated to use 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 type or even that mean that they become feeding more and sarkozy can lead to the lightest of trouble you alone are going to meet it is to study largely with your so this means the widest

transmission would be even more heading to a floor many people in the vicinity how would people get exposed. a long time professor at a top u.s. college has been placed on leave after refusing special treatment for black students a group of students had to ask u.c.l.a. teacher gordon kline for the final exam to be postponed for them due to the impact of georgia floyd's death this was klein's response any idea of any students from minneapolis i assume that they probably are especially devastated as well i'm thinking that a white student from there might possibly be even more devastated by this especially because some might think that they're racist even if they're not. but the punishment of klein has forged deep deep divisions with opposing petitions appearing in response one is demanding he is fired while the other wants the 27 year lecturer reinstated the petition supporting of the professor has far more signatures we discussed the issue with the author and political analyst reese

everson and political and social issues you tuber and blogger anthony bryan logan. he literally made a mockery of the fact that people who were experiencing george floyd death and dealing with the trauma of that as an african-american person in america that they would have any type of real trauma he just missed it he made a mockery of it and frankly it's disgusting that he would and disappointing frankly that someone in his position would be a little the experience of students that he's supposed to be caring for and what he said what he was talking about as far as why people that may live in minneapolis feeling a little bit more sympathetic they could be right because that person that brought the complaint to begin with was what he said of course white ally so i mean there was a black person that came for and say can we take off exams can exams that count because we're going through with thing people don't know this may and they're not related to him so how can it really be so overtaken with grief so the point where you can

just go by the number every day life i thought that was really ridiculous i thought it was an excellent email better professor same i don't know george for him personally but as a black woman in america and maybe a.b.l. himself doesn't have this experience and maybe he doesn't identify in his blackness but as a black woman in america i remember being pulled over by the police because i was african-american i remember feeling afraid for my life i know what it's like to have people who are african-american that i care about come in contact with the police and fear for their very life and because of that the death of george floyd resonates with me strongly and it's a morning when women at me being a woman when i know that i can birth a child who will be killed or who can be killed simply because of the color of his skin i'm going to use on my hero as a whole thing about about the blackness but not the whole blackness part i mean i come from. our group in the mostly like predominately black area all my life i know

what it's like i did like don't smoke the black people come into my window i know what it's all about so there's always thing about oh maybe you don't identify i know are different than if i i know to. grief i know what the real problems are coming from a train from the white man and from the police is from my eyes so when i see people i are grieving for george miller you know ok your mind will do you might you might say you did them saying oh you know here's a behavior for weeks you don't you don't know this man you could be group or for weeks people at worst people give you more for georgia florida and it would for their own grandma mourner on granddaddy i don't really understand the be issued and that is not accurate either that's not accurate i can't see how people in the eye can see what we're seeing are black people who are responding to a collective body of pain if you're familiar with the phrase pain body there is a collective pain body of hundreds of years of pain from oppression slavery and other things that have basically impacted the mind in a lot of black people carry what we call a post-traumatic stress disorder because of the economy i don't have i don't i

don't republicans feel maybe a.b.l. you when you see the police maybe if you've been pulled over you're not concerned that they see black 1st and that you're a man 2nd but many people in this country who walk around in know an african-american skin or black skin have that fear and it's a very real concern one thing i would say to anybody it is i who actually don't care because you are if you're feeling bad for black people because of one person and i don't do that just be on is just be you so there is no need to be you know it turns truly nasty or intentionally just overly nice to just be rule and what he was doing in a letter was being a rule and if you are against racism if you give him a nation you should be in favor of what you say in the later he's like look i'm not going to treat like students in differently i'm not going to give anybody any kind of special anything because they do skin color thereby going to do same. donald trump has declared that he is ending quote the era of endless wars in

a speech at the west point military academy on saturday the president also stressed that it is not america's job to act as the world's policeman the anti intervention interventionist message was reminiscent of pronouncements made during the 2016 campaign we are ending the era. of endless wars it is not the duty of u.s. troops to solve ancient conflicts in faraway lands. 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 to other continents. our borders wide open. a lot of people voted for trump originally because he was saying that he wanted to end the endless words but he hasn't he's repeating something that he said since he was campaigning and he hasn't been doing it in the time that we've been here he you know he was amping up the fighting

in syria against the government syrian government while saying that he was leaving . he's continued to u.s. involvement with the saudi war on yemen which is really a saudi and american war and the people of yemen. he has continued in the drone attacks in iraq and really. expanded the war in iraq afghanistan rather while saying it he was pulling us out i haven't seen that really happen so. i think it's more talk than anything else. all right glad to have you with us i'll be back in about 32 and a half minutes with another full of your news you're watching our 2 international.

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if they want to. yes. yes. line afshin rattansi we're going underground ahead of tomorrow's 3rd anniversary of the grandfather fire that killed 72 people in the london area where the poorest to live among the richest in the world a result of taurine a liberal austerity that put profit over people coming on the show in the wake of the grand fell and when russia tragedies is the u.k. government institutionally racist we speak to hip hop artist and activist lukey about the colonial mindset that lionizes winston churchill once our greatest briton

now being branded the alleged racist is that his trouble for bristol to london is the time now to take back power from the over some more coming up in today's going on the ground 1st in the week of george ford's funeral u.k. pm boris johnson born in the upper east side of manhattan in new york city had this to say when asked about president trump after saying the words black lives matter as for the other qualities of the. mr let me say he has amongst many other things he is president of the united states which is all i would choose are our most important ally in the world today and whatever people may say about it whatever those on the left may say about it the united states is a bastion of peace and freedom and has been for most of my lifetime maybe he never noticed us wars killing wounding or displacing tens of millions amidst the peace and freedom he claims to have witnessed during his lifetime in fact british politicians this week called for act.