i. headlining this wednesday the 17th of june nationwide health worker valleys in france with medics to modding the government to keep its pandemic promise is this support medical stop also. korean relations deteriorate further just a day after blowing up a diplomatic facility and now the north to resume war games in the demilitarized borders of the south will pay a price if it does. the gas german politicians rail against

possible u.s. sanctions over a pipeline project with russia calling the restrictions an unlawful interference. so good afternoon for russians is r.t. international live from a world view sage q. moscow is kevin 0 in with me for the next to this wednesday starting in france where nationwide rallies by health care workers in the past 24 hours so some ugly scenes tens of thousands turned to remind the government about its pledge to help medical staff and support hospitals but not all of it passed by peacefully as you're about to see.

then video showing a nurse being injured during a violent arrest at the rally in paris a spot furious reaction online it was reported that she was detained for throwing projectiles we can report to 2 camera operators from r.t. france were injured while filming some of that unrest when people began throwing stones at the police both receive treatment for medical workers who were at the rally. when it comes to policing offices in france will still be able to use controversial restraining methods the government's backtrack then on completely banning chokeholds after opposition from offices more on that front show the dubin ski. francis interior minister promised 0 tolerance on racism

among the forces a promise that came all the mass protests over allegations of racism and police brutality unleashed following the death of george floyd in the us free stuff yesterday even. during his speech. that you called method known as the strangulation method will be abandoned and will no longer be taught in police schools it was a method that had its dangers in addition if a police officer has to keep someone on the ground during their arrest they will now be prohibited from leaning on their head or neck protesters hailed asked in this move to ban the chokehold but the reaction from the police was theory unions describe the technique as essential. my colleagues who used the choke hold which we call the takedown technique don't do it for the fun of it they do it because they're dealing with a very individual who doesn't want to be taken down as unions demanding talks

officers turned out in protest throwing their hand cuffs. on the butt of what i thought well so we're not allowed to intervene in certain neighborhoods because we don't want the young people to rebel so we have to let a certain amount of delinquency go in certain neighborhoods and then we're told that if we control them then we're racist but want to know how do we proceed with individuals who refused to be arrested were under the effect of narcotics alcohol if they take away our working methods there will be possible anymore it all proved too much for the interior ministry it's now made a u. turn on the chokehold ban suspending it until a so-called alternative can be found now human rights organizations have stepped in . it is unfortunate that interior minister custom there reconsider his decision to abandon the practice of chokehold and the danger which he himself had recalled when the ban was briefly in place it was announced the french police would start to test

stun guns for wide use and there seems to be no backtracking on this as that decision was being taken across the atlantic this happened but you're right about. most of the stuff. that was stung so in a limited but increasing use in france up almost 70 percent between 2017 and 2019 last year the use of stun guns proved fatal once while others suffered severe injuries while stun guns or increasingly becoming the weapon of choice of course europe enforced even the police concern us. we must understand that when the police use force it's because there is someone who doesn't want to obey the law when the technique is banned from the police must be

given a solution and we agree that a stun gun is not the solution. for us is he told in a row over whether or not the force is all racist too or just doing their jobs offices all seeing their methods to control friends suspects being severely beefed up just in your last year is a real problem of racism there's a document check principle based on appearance there is a certain cover up of the problem is their denial is institutional in nature republican not exist without the police which means it is necessary to act and it is necessary to act quickly to trust in the police in france is necessary condition for national unity as long as hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens are afraid to meet the police. when they go out into the streets this indicates a serious problem a significant function in our public. letting you know to place a forms also on the cards in the united states will talk about that very soon

president truman signed an executive order to overhaul law enforcement to partially departments nationwide details ahead. north korea's threatening to send troops into the demilitarized border zone all but wiping out a deal to reduce tensions with the south that was agreed barely 2 years ago on choose day the north blew up the only negotiations outpost between the 2 countries sending their heavily strained relationship to a dangerous new low. they artillery units deployed at the level of the from guard duty to top class combat duty system through the front line and will resume all kind of regular military exercises in the areas close to the boundary if the north actually takes such a move it will certainly pay the price for it. the demolition of that post in the border town of khowst song was shown on north korean t.v. .

there's been weeks of dispute with the south which claims for stalled peace talks and failing to stop defectors distributing cross border propaganda but the north ultimate day could be about attracting attention from much further afield as he goes down off explains next. there's nothing easy in the relationship between north and south from an all out war 2 decades of indecision and now even this tentative peace might be falling apart a liaison office right on the border was meant to incentivise tulips between the neighbors well instead it is literally being blown away now here is a very unequivocal message from kim jong un sr the measure of completely destroying the norse sols joint liaison office chris ponce to the mindset of the enraged people to surely force human scum and those who have sheltered the scum to pay dearly for their crimes the liaison office was tragically ruined was

a terrific explosion. it comes amid an escalation between the 2 neighbors pyongyang for instance has been ramping up threats to move in the 7 into the now demilitarized zone skeptics though saying that all of this is just diversion tactics and really kim wants the attention of washington never again will we provide the u.s. chief executive with another package to be used for achievements without receiving any returns nothing is more hypocritical than an empty promise i think it's just because of those leaflets those anti north korea propaganda let's which they say that's why they did it but it's highly unlikely that that is the only reason because for them to risk alienating seoul and really getting back on the bad side of potentially of the united states because of this aggressive act. it's very difficult to believe that it's simply because of some fliers that were you know

desperate distributed over to the border in north korea so i definitely believe that this is their kind of the last he'll marry attempt to really get america's attention which is becoming increasingly difficult with this domestic situation the u.s. now so i think that's why they resorted to such a aggressive act that they are otherwise maybe wouldn't have done in their eyes they're probably thinking well we tried diplomacy we tried talking to tromp we tried sitting down with the south korean president we tried taking the diplomatic peaceful road but well it's not really gotten us anything and we're still being hurt by the sanctions are khana me it's in shambles. everyone's ignoring us internationally right now and nothing's really going on that's helping us really so we haven't really gotten much out of it something to consider that they might think they might have felt very desperate. there's anger in the german parliament of the

united states over threatened sanctions linked to the major nordstrom to gas pipeline project with russia head of the economic and energy affairs committee wants the government to consider countermeasures is the europe correspondent peter all of a. well this latest move by the united states has caused across the political divide here in germany earlier in the week because we have the german foreign minister saying that relations between washington and berlin at the moment worth of well difficult is how he described it and that was over donald trump's decision to pull u.s. troops out of germany well that relationship is equally as problematic when you look at the north stream to project washington is currently threatening crippling sanctions against companies that they're involved in not project that though is straight up a legal according to the chairman of the bundestag committee for economic affairs and energy. and we don't know what to do against companies but also gives

governments it is an unlawful in the legal system in europe and there's also a german absorbency well the u.s. senators including texas as ted cruz have put forward a bill in the united states that would put the sanctions on any company and insurance firm related to those companies involved in the laying of undersea gas pipelines as part of the north stream project now the german foreign minister the german government saying they reject that out of hand the fact that sanctions are being considered or could possibly be nice she did in the united states does not change anything in our position and nor it's true to dissension has been discussed now are extraterritorial by nature from our point of view we reject them the german government has long had the view that sanctions with extra territorial effects are in conflict with international law and that they're not a contribution to advancing international corporation not stream to is the name

suggest the 2nd face in this underwater gas pipeline project it takes russian gas directly from russia into germany. multi-billion euro project involves companies from a number of different nations it had been supposed to be open running by 29000 but pressure from the united states has forced delays washington says this pipeline gives moscow too much of a hand in the european energy sector however politicians here in berlin well they think there may be and altieri a motive behind the united states protests. and the aim of these actions from the united states is not from our perspective to reduce dependence on russia but rather the goal is naturally to be able to sell their own gas to europe and that is easier to do with less gas is delivered from russia i.e.

the trade relations in the energy sector would be susceptible to disturb it historically not a lot has changed here even in the darkest hours of the cold war west germany as it was then bought energy from the u.s.s.r. as it was then what we have here though is essentially who's going to blink 1st the german government are insisting it's not going to be there they say that it's german energy policy it who germany buys its energy from is german business and that donald trump the united states and any u.s. senators that want to get involved well they should think twice about doing the. next war is this is going to be a story to watch 20 indian soldiers have been killed in hand to hand clashes with chinese forces in a disputed himalayan the border area it's the 1st deadly encounter between them in the region for at least 4 decades china and india have long disputed control of territory with air patrols often coming into contact resulting in occasional skirmishes for its part china's not so whether its troops other than the casualties

both sides blame each other for starting the fighting those moves from china itself related tighter measures in the cap. battle to stave off a 2nd suspected wave of coronavirus 28 neighborhoods are now locked down for at least the next 3 weeks the new wave breaks believed to have been started in beijing's massive food market supplies a huge amount to that city in a city that reported 31 new cases on wednesday and 137 in the past week. related used to greece is officially opened up for tourists from within the e.u. after months of locked the mirror of the iconic island of santorini usually bustling with visitors this time of year pitched for holidaymakers by assuring them that there has not been a single case of coronavirus the rest of the country though has logged over 3000 infections and 185 deaths. which with day 16 moscow time whatever time of day it is

with you thank you for taking the time to watch us coming up the calls for equality and to root out racism or getting high level support but as some politicians questionable actions louder than their words well the modern slavery that's being overlooked we'll look into it when we're back. lead.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. police reform in the united states is in motion president trump signed an executive order to overhaul police departments across the country it's the strongest federal level action yet the now after weeks of often violent unrest against police

brutality following the death of george floyd rival democrats have their own ideas about how to improve policing criticising the trumpet ministrations humbling of the crisis during a senate hearing. people are demanding action. they are not marching in the streets for a watered down proposals that won't hold any officers accountable and there is nothing about what the president announced today that would hold police officers who break the rules and break the law accountable because of existing laws that basically give carte blanche to law enforcement to kill it will what the utterance of these 3 words i'm sorry these 5 words i feared for my life hard for rare prosecutions and difficult convictions have characterized the experiences of families like both. he was killed in his apartment complex even a bowl of ice cream during the 8 years of president obama was there never to get rid of qualified immunity for police officers there were conversations and many

conversations was there as your solution there was not like just was there any legislation and no knock warrants. not to my knowledge was there any legislation created a national registry for bolland by the police. there were efforts to create a national registry i mean things were included in the 21st century police imply i just missed a lot of that so you know this is a tough time for the country and. drops a handful but we're not here because of the failings of one administration we are because of failing that society from the outset the public protests have demanded police reform on that idea since widened to into coles in some quarters to despond entire law enforcement departments with defund the police becoming a rallying cry at some black lives matter rally time from some democratic politicians more on it caleb maupin no. it's been 3 weeks of almost nonstop

protesting since the death of george florida. the president has now signed an executive order banning the use of the chokehold unless the police officers life is in danger however protesters say that doesn't go far enough they want donald trump to defund the police but the president says he is not willing to do that i strongly oppose the radical and dangerous efforts to defend dismantle them dissolve our police departments without police there is chaos without law there is an arche and without safety there is catastrophe so what is in this executive order well it provides federal funding for deescalation training furthermore it encourages the police to be accompanied by social workers when dealing with drug addicts the homeless or the mentally ill it creates

a federal database of complaints so police officers can't go from job to job to job after being fired for brutality now trump clearly hopes these moves will appease the growing unrest however the protesters seem satisfied with his moves trump's executive order is too thin this and meaningless we don't need studies when he believes that commit crimes to be punished all police that use chokeholds claimed their lives were threatened what's new this attempt to calm things down from u.s. president donald trump comes after he promised a crackdown on seattle where protesters have set up what they call an autonomy zone after the local government vacated a police precinct of a governor that doesn't do a damn thing about it and you have a mayor that doesn't know she's alive she's talking about it's going to be a love fest this summer you know if they don't do the job i'll do the job but i've already spoken to the attorney general about it but if they don't do the job we will do the job well and. about 10 different things i that any one of which will

solve the problem quickly crackdown in seattle would certainly fit donald trump's desired image as a law and order president but if the local government in seattle including the mayor is not willing to go along with it it'll be pretty hard for the president to pull it off now the protesters at this point are not exactly running for cover and with a lackluster executive order there are unlikely to be off the streets anytime soon it will happen our new york. with a resurgent black massive movement hitting its stride worldwide politicians of both sides of the atlantic have been offering their solidarity as we've seen but perhaps a few should check their own records when it comes to modern slavery in north africa as our senior correspondent steve explains for the enterprising politician an incumbent by the way to have more ality and principles and empathy every crisis is an opportunity a free ride to relevance on the backs of the rejected and they did jacketed watch

them and learn barack obama and to whom the occupy wall street protests were brutally suppressed with buttons and rubber bullets and tear gas he's now applauding the protesters hillary clinton whose phone us for football ming things has led to a new black slave industry in libya and she's now tweeting high stagg black lives not. this chart tells an incredible story of the power of black lives matter as a mass movement your fellow american sahara and you keep marching over the past few weeks we've seen young people in every corner of the country step up and become leaders through organization and mobilization they're showing us that we can sustain this momentum to bring about real change at the end of the day this is a cruel and unjust world so most war as war and politics is politics take

libya as an example a decade ago it was well a state it had law it was ruled by an autocrat but there was one of the richest states in africa people didn't need to see to europe to find peace but then came european and american jets and bombs and the people rather supporting the people of libya as they build a future that is free and democratic and prosperous attacks by regime forces on the libyan citizens. we came we saw them a few died. see

how can you complain about migrants and having to pay for them when you yourself made life hell for them in their own country will region look at libya now there is no law it's chaos multiplied by civil war to the power of slave markets in 2020 where a black slave can be bought for $200.00 human life for $200.00. migrants are being sold in the market as a commodity selling human beings is becoming a trend among smugglers because the smuggling networks in libya are becoming stronger and stronger if you go to the market you can pay between $2500.00 to get a migrant here's an idea why don't you the enterprise and politician go to libya go to slave market they're outdoors in the sweltering heat walk up to the slave

live past the auctioneers and tell them to their faces that it's not your fault that they're there how they should stay there in that live and not try to escape to europe and then add to how you think that their lives matter throw in be a lemon hash tag see what they think about that if you really care so much about slavery. then why exactly did these politicians support in 2011 the aggressive bombing campaign against libya which was a well governed state. and that led to the creation of slave markets in libya actual slave market today slave market so we're not talking about the transatlantic slave trade from the 17th century we're talking about a slave trade that is ongoing today and yet these politicians do not address that issue because it's so much easier to beat your breast and rail and

shake your fist about an issue that end that hundreds of years ago so yes it is hypocritical but in worse than that it's a fraud and it's a fraud perpetrated by certain groups of white people to enable them to feel superior to other groups of white people and to use that to get to power and that's particularly the case in the united states but to a certain extent that is also true in your. we have a citation that endeavors to question more for you from artie's world news h.q. or mosco kevin owen reporting and have a great day. we

go to work see you straight home. the deepest republic of just a non-conformist utopia or a politically correct i'll take your to dig nonetheless the experiment being played out in seattle is no laughing matter the ideas of law and order and illegitimate use of force are at stake a piece of advice go visit jobs before china us visits you. nuclear become a battleground in the u.s. in vermont people are demanding the shutdown of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because it's

a very dangerous oh no claire power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limit this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where's it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy is power lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in very real ways our struggle on r.t. . time after time say we're going on the ground is today the u.n. human rights council heeds demands from $54.00 african countries to hold an urgent debate on systematic racism and police brutality against people from african

descent after the murder of george floyd by u.s. security forces or limited coronavirus pandemic just proportionally killing people of color coming up on the show as the united states enters its 4th week of protest after the death of another black man ray shot brooks at the hands of the police we ask a man described by don't trump is a great voice in the black community about being summoned to the white house before his president's executive order for police reform plus as all black lives matter is painted on hollywood boulevard. actor activist and time magazine's person of the year rose mcgowan about the culture of american exceptionalism and why this program has reportedly been targeted across the united states but its coverage of george floyd. coming up in today's going underground but 1st the continuing protests in the united states that started in the wake of the murder of george floyd but have now spread around the world of seemingly come to represent the pushback against systemic inequality on a global scale or at least that's what.