president. deployed the army to seattle if the authorities there don't crack down on protesters occupying part of the city but the mayor has shot back saying the use of military force would be illegal 4 c. the outcry over the killing of georgia floyd continues thousands of anti-racism protesters flood the streets of paris to denounce police brutality. hundreds of far right demonstrators defend a statue of winston churchill in central london after it was downed with graffiti

branding the wartime leader a racist. and nearly 1300 health experts call on the us police to stop using tear gas and other against demonstrators warning such tactics could increase the risk of 19 transmission. broadcasting live coverage from our studios and this is r t international thomas certainly glad to have you with us and 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. 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 that matter activists they barricaded themselves inside 6 blocks in the center of seattle and declared it a police free area to the desert explains what life is like inside the commune. i am down here in the capitol hill autonomous zone also known as chaz and the mood here is commonly 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 at some drinks water all types of

snacks we've got people handing out bags with masks and hand sanitizer literally everything you can think of and over here is the memorial that is set up to all of the people that we've lost or during the george floyd rebellion as they're calling it that's what the law says over 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 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 ban or vote to disband the minneapolis police were calling for the same thing here in seattle we're calling for a complete defunding of the police a completely allocation and to black and brown community is where it's needed the most and so that is definitely a goal of people. i would say the number one. right now. and b.l.m. protests are continuing in other parts of the city as well on friday thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets in what they called a silent protest the 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. 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. says that he has the figures to back that up as well arty's neil harvey spoke to him earlier. you had those isolated incidents where i was going to 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 enjoy 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 talks about the unarmed individual shot by law enforcement if you break it down

between african-americans 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 racism 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 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 speed 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 force it off which doesn't always know that on a sunny and so i actually like time response and programs other than law enforcement to try to take some of that burden away small force what you can't do is you can't take funding to law enforcement and then asked law enforcement do the same exact or just a new version of. aside from the general public the black lives that 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 parties saskia taylor explains transfer century companies live in fear of cats culture alone

tweet to i misjudge joke can lead to a harsh sentence in the court of public opinion so with black lies not to protest sweeping the globe every business is clamoring to say they are part of 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 activist had gotten a pumpkin spice not if you're tying it to the company's history and sure enough starbucks got pulled it by its own hypocrisy starbucks use a scoff at the 6 tracked by 80 year old 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 were 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 secrets and prada tweeters 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 we didn't 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 stance 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 perpetually policy isn't acknowledges that are clearly targeting and harming black and brown communities and into the mix that only 8 percent of its managers in the us are black and you will see by slapping a banner on your home page doesn't quite make the cut. as

a black woman i feel like it is time to go it's there's a help us try those everyone wants to join in and profit from us and what microsoft has started posting messages from it's not complete they don't mind and runs out of material pretty quickly given the less than 5 percent of its entire what falls flat so we guess it look couple of connections hit an emotional peak that runs through the social media stunt the pundits will get up and the books will stay balanced but it looks like they went to posted another on instagram and they forgot to put a potluck on that was it busting with skeletons. thousands of anti-racism demonstrators gathered in the center of paris on saturday to protest against police brutality and widespread discrimination. in. the protests to call the by the black lives matter movements all protesters

climb a building to tear down a huge banner denouncing anti-white racism the banner had been placed there by a group of far right activists from the generation identity group anti-racism demonstrators also jumped on statues and held flares and marched with signs the largely peaceful rallies took place despite a national crowd of virus 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 obvious discrimination overall inequality 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 it's our duty as french people now after everything that's happened. to join their people in the movement this is

a special day for us because we're showing our support for the families of those host the way 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 that face discrimination that 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 looking at the other side of the coin 10000 officers to the streets of paris on friday against a new government measures to ban chokehold during arrests law enforcement marched along the. carrying banners no police no peace alongside mark cars on

horns in a similar demonstration the day before officers threw handcuffs on the ground and it comes after the french interior minister banned police from using chokeholds in arrests describing it as a dangerous method but the general secretary of the french police union is refusing to budge. so. the statement by christopher guest and their this monday is unacceptable he was talking about burn 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 in order to avoid this collation 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. in the meantime rightwing demonstrations

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 and police have imposed restrictions demanding protesters leave the street by 5 pm local time to prevent violent clashes between the 2 sides james brown reports now from problem and 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 a 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 but only 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 violent the attacking the police or public property and it's not just politicians who have strong views

on what city can this is cited to do here we were out on the streets of london finding out exactly what locals think about cities can decision to board up the statues 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 try to look at things from both perspectives there's a lot of good tissue. behind it a lot of the structure should be taken down at the guy or the ball itself the bottom of the pot i think you should be thinking that this isn't so good for all the people who are living in that world where they have to be to see the. limits to all of this global chaos don't forget we are the middle of a pandemic there is concern the use of tear gas could hugely increase the spread 'd of covert 19 among protesters the issue has been highlighted in an open letter signed by almost 1300 us public health and medical professionals this comes amid the nationwide protest against racism that has been raging for 2 and

a half weeks now oppose any use of tear gas smoke or other respects irritants which could increase risk for coated 19 by making the response tractable 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 riot 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 all the measures when effective in accomplishing that necessary objective mohammad more near a viral a just add to the u.k.'s lancaster university believes concerns about the current

use of tear gas are justified. actually then we look on to the display issue track inspection they are very easy to be trust me today and one of the contributing factors for the call of august 2 surprised and take the whole word on nice they didn't for 5 months as being used for best new treatment of transmission so anything that can expose the respiratory tract or create any additional damage to the disparate tracks is something that would certainly have the widest to any trade into the body otherwise we would be probably protected so be it for what it comes to the street exacting section dampened i'm excited caller said julie did the keeping the upper respiratory tract healthy is not what i'm told and having to tear gas is certainly not a good choice in this good condition in particular so someone who is infected with a groan about us or has asked them all or other people motivated to use in terms of this critic tracking sections or other are community diseases if they were to be under the tear gas or similar kind of type or even check me to david because maybe

more and heart coughing can electrify just to trouble you any longer than to meet it is to us that we are really good jokes so this means the widest transmission would be even more and do it for many people in the vicinity would be able to get exposed. donald trump attempting to drum up support ahead of november's election the president is a reiterating his promise to end america's analyst wars more on that after a short break this is are today.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this very dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

welcome back now donald trump has declared that he is going to put an end to quote 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 interventionist message was reminiscent of pronouncements made during his 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 driven decision to foreign wars that make us less they shipped our jobs or wealth to other countries and our borders wide open. for more on this we're joined live by ken stone from the hamilton coalition to stop the war ken thanks for being with us

as always. if we get right to it is there any reason that we can believe in i don't think so. in 2016 a trump made the same promises to the american people and he was elected partly because of that because the american people are getting very tired of the endless war that's gone on since 911 and watching their tax dollars go to the military while they don't have jobs while they don't have housing proper housing while they don't have medicare while they're saddled with enormous debt so they voted in large numbers but he failed to deliver he today the u.s. is still mired in the so-called endless wars in iraq and afghanistan and the u.s. is still engaged in regime change operations in syria and you can run venezuela and

other countries as well ok now good so it actually like during trump's 1st term u.s. military operations have actually been expanded in some countries and the rules of engagement relaxed will the electorate take the president's promise seriously given that he's kind of done the opposite of what he said he would do. that's hard to say but. the fact is that in his speech trump is playing to a certain traditional constituency in the us right wing and racist isolationists these are our he's talking to them with underlying racist message that we don't we we don't like foreigners. the people he's talking to the isolationists and especially if they're non white foreigners and trump is saying to them we're not going to spend american treasure and american lives on on projects such as nation building or bringing democracy

american style democracy to other countries. what trump is doing is he's focusing inward and he is at the same time. we can as we can see what the world health organization i talking international institutions and attacking the very idea multi-lateralism so he is trying to appeal to a certain constituency and his speech to the west point grads of isolationists in the usa well isolationism or strict anti intervention alist policy is this in america's best interest i mean it could be seen as a roading washington's power on the world stage. regrettably what he's saying in his speech to the west point grads is for an american consumption to an american audience the us president whether it's trauma or biden is presiding over a fully fledged empire with an imperial ruling class

a billionaire capitalists who are united on 3 things at least in foreign policy the 1st one is that their manifest destiny of the us is to dominate the world in every respect number 2 is that national sovereignty counts for nothing except as it applies to the us and number 3 that the us as an exceptional and indispensable country and that was the theme of obama's speech when he was president of the west point grads and what exceptionalism and indispensability means in american foreign policy jargon is that the usa is a buyout international law and the rules of international laws don't apply to the us it can do what it wants so since the interests of the us ruling class in compas the entire world and that visibly. it will come into conflict with certain

countries who refuse to toe the line indeed that's where that's where the us brings in the nato alliance the 12 military and its well carrier fleet and the 850 military bases around the world to bring those countries into the line by force though that's why we'll continue to have overseas conflicts as long as the us is an empire like this and stone hamilton that coalition to stop the war you and i can talk about this for an entire show i'm sure we hope to have you back for up to. right a long time professor at a top us college has been placed on leave after refusing special treatment for black students a group of students had asked u.c.l.a. teacher gordon kline for the final exam to be postponed for them due to the impact of george floyd's death this was klein's response. any idea if any students are from minneapolis i assume that they probably are especially devastates is well i'm thinking that

a white student from them might possibly be even more devastated by this especially because some might think that they are racist even if they're not but the punishment of klein has forged a deep divisions with opposing petitions appearing in response one is demanding he is fired while the other wants the 27 year old lecturer or sorry 27 year lecturer reinstated this petition supporting the professor has far more signatures we discussed the issue with author and political analyst and reese everson and a political and social issues you tube or and blogger anthony brian 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 white 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 where 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 they're not related to him so how can it really be so overtaken with grief so the point where they can just go by the number every day like i thought that was really ridiculous i thought it was an excellent e-mail that a professor seeing 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 who you are grew up in the mostly like predominately black area all my life i know what it's like i did like adult bullets most 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 what a rule. grief i know where there were problems are coming from from the white man and from the police is from us so when i see people like i here grieving for george miller you know ok you're mine too although you might you might be needed to say i was getting good behavior from me you don't know this man he could be prepared for weeks people at worst people would be more for george floyd and it would for their own grandma mourner own grandaddy i don't really understand that being.