president threatened to deploy the army to seattle if the authorities there don't protest. there. would be illegal. cry over the killing of george floyd continue to. flood the streets of paris police brutality. both police. nearly 1300 health

experts call on the us police. could increase the risk of transmission. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm certainly glad to have you with us get right back to our top stories this hour 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 said that 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 deseret de loach 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 coming 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 lloyd brazilian as they're calling it that's what the the wall 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 so people are anticipating on staying as long as possible there have been several tents that have

already been set up people are preparing to stay overnight main goal i would say that i could say right now is that people are they calling for the defunding of police you know nationwide we've seen this minneapolis city council. already you know completely just 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 b.l.m. protests are continuing in other parts of the city as well on friday thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets and 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 protesters in seattle. with 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 are not actually being unfairly targeted says that he has figures to back that information up as well arty's know harvey spoke to him earlier . 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 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 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 a 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 fear 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 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 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 stronger 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. just on some programs of the law enforcement to try to take some of that burden away from law enforcement what you can't do is you can't take funding some law enforcement and then asked law enforcement do the same exact work just for the very good. thousands of anti-racism demonstrators gathered in the center of paris on saturday to protest against police brutality and widespread discrimination. i. prefer that it's not just happening in the us the protest called by the black lives matter movement saw protestors 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 held flares and marched with signs the largely peaceful rallies took place despite a national coronavirus related ban on gatherings of more than 10 people police tried to disperse the 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 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 it's our duty as french people now after everything this happened. to join their people you know 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're 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 $10000.00 officers took to the streets of paris on friday against new government measures to ban chokeholds. during arrests law enforcement is now on the other side of the issue marching along the shelves carrying banners no police no peace alongside marked cars wanting their horns in a similar demonstration the day before officers threw handcuffs on the ground this

comes after the french interior minister banned police from using chokeholds and arrests describing it as a dangerous method but the general security secretary excuse me 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 confirming the matter of ours 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. far right demonstrators gathered in central london on

saturday claiming that they were rallying to defend a statue of winston churchill which was recently defaced by anti-racism activists some of the protesters clashed with police and black lives matter supporters of warning you may find some of the following images disturbing. thank you for all that i. i. i i i i i i. i i i. 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 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 protest 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 that cost 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 especially to protect it from any further damage now that decision has proved controversial and enlisted an angry response from the prime minister you've got a situation in which the statue of winston churchill who is a national hero has had to be boarded up for fear of

a 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. that the attacking the police public property and it's not just politicians who have strong views on what city con this is cited to do here we were out on the streets of london finding out exactly what's locals think about cities qantas's and to board up the structures here in holland where i guess people will hate to defend so instead choose and i suppose you could defend it was to support people trying to take it down because a truck says look at things from both perspectives this is a good history behind it a lot of the stuff she should be taken down have to die for gold itself and bought the pot i think you should be thinking that this is insulting for all the people were living in it well that led to the cd. meanwhile in the northern city of

newcastle scuffles broke out on saturday as black lives matter activists faced off with counter demonstrators army veterans along with football fans and right wing activists encircled the monument to former prime minister earl grey saying they would defend it from anti-racism groups earlier a contributor to the guardian newspaper had suggested taking down the statue claiming it is linked to slavery though he was mocked online as slavery was actually abolished in britain under that premier we gauge to people's opinion in the city about that money minute. it to create a delicious bill for the slavery and look that bill was passed when he was prime minister. to a north pacific what he was famous he was famous for taking. totally disagree with that he was to take to get rid of slavery feel like i don't know enough about

his interest in slavery as to whether it's a good or bad thing so i couldn't say until i knew that more about it. she generally this should be taken down because nobody likes to you know anything a push to not be as it is causing offense in any leadership of this museum and we can have this just you know history sure need i'm sure that some of them probably do need demolishing but as with so often really situations what starts off as a good thing or tends to go back to. let's take this monument fine is fine since in one night we're talking face to found was taken down it wouldn't be reassessed because it could still put in some heritage site which for full safety if he's in a book you need a name in website if you can be safe online days if the people who. are on these wanted to represented on these punishments. a 10 person in slavery call that their own profit then i think it needs to do seriously looked at

whether we have them and as points of reference 0 points power. now all of this is happening amidst a global pandemic and there is concern the use of tear gas could hugely increase the spread of covert 1000 among protesters issue has been highlighted in an open letter signed by almost 1300 u.s. public health and medical professionals this comes amid the nationwide protest against racism that has been raging on for about 2 and a half weeks now. oppose any use of tear gas smoke or other respects irritants which could increase risk for covert 19 by making the risk to most sceptical to infection exacerbating existing inflammation and in juicing coughing apart from chronic virus related health concerns there are other issues as well prolonged exposure to the gas or a large dose especially in close setting can lead to blindness it can also leave

a 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 tea gas was a means to save to 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 mohamed more narrow a viral a just at the u.k.'s 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 august to surprised and take the whole word on nice getting for 5 mums as being a stress free treatment of transmission so anything that can expose the respiratory track or create any additional damage to the spirit of traction is something that would certainly have the vitus to any trade into the body otherwise we could

probably be protected so be it for what it comes to the state exacting section and i'm excited all about it said julie it is keeping the upper respiratory tract healthy is love running toward it and having the tear gas is certainly not a good choice in a biscuit condition in particular so someone who is infected with a groan about as well as ask them all or other cuomo to be deities in terms of this for tracking sections or other are community diseases if they were to be under the tear gas or similar kind of type or even doc mean that david because feeding more and heart coughing can elect the widest to trouble you have a longer than 2 meter distance that we are really good jokes so this means the widest transmission would be even more heading to a floor many people in the vicinity i would be a little more exposed. with donald trump attempting to drum up support ahead of november's election the president is a reiterating his promise to end america's endless wars and one that after

a short break this is party international. there was a period let's call it. the period. of the cold war you have sometimes night or countries and other people sort of ones of russia to be what they describe as a new country right. what they meant by normal was a country that was democratic by western standards now it was capitalists now it was a member of u.s. led international rules graced order established and i think a lot of people saw that as sort of permanent 2nd class status in the u.s. . system and i think it's pretty clear that russia in particular has been pushing

back on that. welcome back this is our team international. 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 night 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 just. in faraway lens. 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 it in 2016 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 $911.00 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 so they voted them into and large numbers for trump but he failed to deliver he today the u.s. is still mired in the so-called endless wars what trump is doing is he's focusing

inward and he is at the same time at tacking international institutions and attacking the very idea of multilateralism so he is trying to appeal to a certain constituency in his speech to the west point grads of isolationists in the usa. switching gears now taking a look at some stories making headlines around the world will go to china 1st. authorities in china say 18 people were killed and more than 160 injured when a truck carrying 5 gas exploded on a highway in the eastern province of chiang on saturday officials said the blast was so powerful it destroyed nearby homes and factories creating an immense fireball and plumes of thick black smoke because of the disaster is currently under

investigation. in south america now there have been some emotional reunions in a care home in sao paolo brazil after a local businessman decided to donate a hug curtain residents who hadn't seen their loved ones for months were finally able to reconnect with them the entrepreneur plans to produce more of the plastic curtains for care homes across the city which has been at the center of the country's corona virus outbreak. with the world's nightlife industry taking tentative steps towards reopening one cocktail bar in seoul has found a novel way to entice customers back in this robot named combo is able to carve perfectly round balls of ice and serve dozens of different drinks all while making conversation the bars boss says it has helped put customers at ease south korea has been on alert since experiencing a recent research. in fact. back

in the states a long time professor at a top college there 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 there might possibly be even more devastated by this especially because some might think that they're racist even if they're not. the punishment of klein has forged deep divisions with opposing petitions appearing in response one is demanding that he is fired while the other wants the 27 year lecturer reinstated the petition supporting the professor has far more signatures as of this moment we discussed the issue with author and political analyst emma

reese everson and political and social issues that you tube or 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 dismissed 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 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 not count because we're going through with thing that 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 like i thought that was really ridiculous i thought it was an excellent e-mail that the professor the same in return 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 and 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 the hood i'm from virginia our group in the mostly like predominately black area all my life i know what it's like i did like adult bullets more the

black people coming to 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 know how to rule. grief i know what the real problems are coming from a change from the white man and from the police is from my eyes so when i see people i argue 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 george florida anyway for their own grandmamma when you're on granddaddy i don't really understand the be issued and that is not accurate either that's not accurate i can't see people in that i can say 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 x.

i don't i don't have a i don't i don't i just 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 you 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 those are 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 honest just be yourself and there is no need to be you know intentionally nasty or intentionally just overly nice to just be rule and what he was doing in a letter was being rude and if you are against racism if you get screaming nation you should be in favor of what he said in the letter he's like look i'm not going to treat a lack students any differently i'm not going to give anybody any kind of special anything because they do skin color and by you do same. i mean back in about 31 and a half minutes this is art international stay with us.

international memorial. has extended its deadline for submissions. all media professionals are eligible whether you are a freelance journalist work for alternative media or a part of a global news platform you can submit to your published works in either video or format go to award go to r.t. dot com and it i know. there. are. a lot of welcome to world the party people in the regime change while there are

a whole countries have been joking that color revolution isn't possible in the united states because you would need an american embassy for that well apparently they were wrong quick problems and riots and even the seizure of government buildings continuing how are america's foes taking being democratic uprising in the world's most celebrated democracy in disguise and i'm now joined by david kilcullen professor of international and political studies at the university of new south wales and corrupt and the author of the dragons are be snakes how the rats learn to buy it was called and great to talk to you congratulations on your latest book and you for having me it's great to be here now i know that it's not your original idea to refer. adversaries as rap tiles you borrow dave wrong. bill clinton's 1st cia director but since you're building now.