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breaking news from r t the knife attack in a park that killed 3 in southern england as earlier today been declared a terror incident by police also. on person killed in an overnight shooting in seattle's no police protests campaigners resisted officers as they arrive preventing them from reaching the victims and to come to this hour in our news or view of the week. supporters rally behind a french nurse released from custody after a video of her groove a to the restroom further angry protests her daughter later hit out of the government's treatment of medical workers. longtime medical personnel have said
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that they are supplicating but they're not being heard. of their own kevin irwin here with you from our international's world view center moscow recapping for the next half hour the big stories as reported by our so over the last 7 days and company we're going to start with our breaking news and the developments there from the u.k. earlier on british police have confirmed that a deadly knife attack in a park in southern england on saturday evening is no believed to be treated as terrorism 3 people died in the incident and reading which is about 60 kilometers west of london show is of course as i say believe no it is being treated as terrorism according to the police however accounts of what happened it is a terrorist a geisha change the the police taki what are they saying. so as you say please have now declared stopping attack in writing in which 3 people died as
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a terror incident at 25 year old writing last night was arrested at the scene around 7 o'clock local time which also left 3 people seriously injured now the british me. press a widely reporting that the 25 year old man is believed to be of a libyan descent though that's partly uncle at defense by any officials however one of the patients that was meant to a hospital in the initial stage after those things has now been discharged and another remains in stable condition but is currently under observation so as you say as i said the counterterrorism piece has now taken over the investigation from the thames on a piece meaning that they've declared a terror incident meaning that the severity level has now been seriously ramped up to the highest level now the head of the u.k. counterterrorism piece he said that the suspect ran into 4 breakout insults apoc in the reading area and attacked members of the public with a knife however the police have no reason to believe that he was acting with anybody else they can form reconfirm. that this was declared
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a terrorist incident. as a result of this investigation. clear that it was not associated in any way with the black lives matter protest which took place peacefully earlier in the day there is no specific intelligence to suggest that anyone attending credit places is at risk but i would ask the public please continue with your lives. when you are out in public. now around 40 witnesses have come forward assisting the peace in their lines of investigation at this point though it's also understood that pace has carried out an operation in the block of flats where the suspect is believed to have lived allegedly neighbors have even heard a controlled explosion in the premises now the total number of injured is indicating there could be a few more injuries today though we have got a comment from boris johnson the prime minister he says he's appalled and sickened
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by the attack and that lessons need to be and one of these lessons though obviously is the matter of security obviously the united kingdom is in the elementary stages of lifting the lockdown procedures hit due to the coronavirus and many people are taking to hanging out in parks during the lockdown is no where else is open restaurants they all remain closed at this point so parks all run fortunately not surveyed they're not met and most of them don't even have any security and last night's events have really shaken the public cannot. repeat. something. it sounds very tragic the kind of thing is happening and maybe. take you. now the mayor of writing has announced a minute's silence is to be held tomorrow at 10 o'clock and the long running behind closed doors due to of course social distancing measures that are put in place due to the knock down boris johnson by himself the prime minister is now in contact
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with the police leading the investigation earlier today though he did meet with security officials police and senior ministers at downing street all of this later this latest incident is hiding ticket to all the instance across the united kingdom because as we know britain has been home to terror incidents in previous years.
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obviously this is a developing story about a weekend and lockdown has now turned very dark indeed. to keep on the line there are later on a day to see if any more details come through thanks for now though we spoke to former london to take to chief inspector peter kirk who commanded the local police response they're ready but says they're likely to be working with fewer resources of course and forces in the bigger cities. it's something that's been of concern for some time. whilst the response to terrorist incidents in places like central london or central manchester is often held up as being fantastic and really quick and lots of officers and their rapidly brought to a conclusion that wouldn't be the case in smaller cities and towns throughout the u.k. the police in those areas they have far fewer resources there are far fewer officers cover far covering far larger areas and so by definition the response to an incident is going to be slower there's going to be fewer officers getting to the
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scene in this particular instance it seems like the attacker heard. a number of people in the park and then made his way out of the park and was arrested by officers arriving at the scene a short time later so it was brought to a rapid conclusion in any event. keep you posted on that no this came in last another story out of date chew on that came in from kiev an explosion has destroyed part of a residential building in the capital killing at least 2 it happened around 10 o'clock local time this morning in a 9 story block what's left of it you can see a lot of damage there 21 people were evacuated to safety but emergency crews pulled 2 bodies from the rubble as well and mitchell report suggested a gas leak was to blame but then a twist later the ukrainian interior minister said that it may have been caused by an explosive device we've got a correspondents are getting a handle on that seems to get more information we'll update you. america seattle's
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a police free occupation protest so shooting overnight one man dead another injured officers say they had trouble trying to get into the area and got a violent reaction from the crowd the initial shots were fired in a park in the so-called autonomy. suspect or suspects. seattle police retreated from the zone off protests that started from projectiles causing officers to use crowd control weapons the capitol hill organized protest shop for short as we look upon your district in central seattle for 2 weeks now president trump railed at those protesters during a campaign rally on saturday but it seems won't weigh in just yet. and i have it off or rather say that each time you one will come in with
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a straight did in one hour or less. no i may be wrong. but is probably better for us to just watch that disaster earlier in the wake of this video began circulating online showing a protester apparently handing out assault rifles to minus which is illegal in washington state activist. walked us through the zone a couple of times in the wake now after the shooting yesterday he's left the area but winding back a bit this is how he described the atmosphere then earlier on in the week before it took that eye glee to. what was the last time they used 2 cities at once to my right is the city of seattle typically dreary monday afternoon and. the capitol hill autonomous so it's now becoming known as chad's. currently standing outside of the police department's precinct which has been
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abandoned now after a series of protests that devolved into riots the seattle police department decided to be prudent to actually leave the station and so this is become the kind of epicenter for for chavez the capitol hill autonomous zone. this absolutely beautiful mural of the recent black lives that have been lost in these protests this is. a lot of people looking for a president to see what the street is already some down at cal anderson park right now which has become sort of a living center for the capitol hill a town in the so and you can see in the distance quite a few tents and people been setting up and kind of creating slowly over the last couple days a living community people are going to come here. and like testing our protest we need some sort of protection. whether that be guns or whether that be your voices we need that. kind of that.
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so are you worried about the police coming up in here and trying to bust this out trying to move this thing out. really as for the anti-racism side of the ongoing protests activists if we continue to take aim at silent reminders of the era of slavery throughout the week incidents of confederate statues being toppled nationwide even though the president called the situation a disgrace to the country nonetheless demonstrators said they're determined to take the racist symbols of america's past.
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from statues to shop shelves another major american consumer brand overhauling its packaging this week to avoid being called. that is racially insensitive cream of wheat breakfast porridge became the 4th brand in 24 hours to reassess the use of images of black people to sell goods caleb maupin looks at the levels of sincerity behind the scenes though behind these changes. rebellion across america it's very clear u.s. society needs to do something to address its flaws when it comes to issues of racism something must be done so corporate and political elites have decided it's time to change corporate logos and advertising and jim i'm a pancake mix made by pepsi corp is going to be changed more people have flipped over and through my mother's ban and many other and cakes in the world we recognize
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and origins are based on a racial stereotype while work has been done over the years to update the brand where realize those changes are not enough and was based on nancy green a beloved african-american storyteller was born in slavery but rose to become a talented entrepreneur in the post civil war years there was something about it and to my mother the call for angela my mother to be changed has been building on social media for a long time did you know the founder chris wright a white man to get the name after attending to michelle the black face did you also know we had former slaves there is a great city is very much amana where she went around to the barricades and tell the people stories of the good ole sad and afterwards they had sent home about 7 to her and that feeling of having their very own man that was mad at people.
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even over this some say it's far from racist to have the image of a black person on a food product list of brands changing their logos is growing. amid all the protest and public outrage it seems that images symbols and monuments have become the focus of so much public discussion. politicians are eager to make grand gestures for those who wish to leave one now neal for a moment of science. just a. purpose to seize and to listen and heal now is the time for racial justice
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but will this solve the actual issue behind the protests the conditions facing african-americans symbolic gestures that the corporations and some government entities are involved it's not going to be enough to win social stability in the united states and it's commentary these are neck the issues that brought millions of people into the streets the government needs to address institutional racism in the united states it has to address the militarization of the police to demilitarize law enforcement officials the protests are not about images and symbols they're about economic injustice police chokeholds mass incarceration and much more addressing the issues that have spawned decades of racial unrest in the united states would require some very big dramatic shifts the very foundations of u.s. society might need to be altered so why is the media focused on cohen every products
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it will mop and artsy new york yeah this is all taken from h.q. moscow good afternoon thanks for watching or the week's headlines stories ahead this sunday including this one big old spot to collapse in relations in korea the north dramatically blowing up a diplomatic post in the way. following to send troops into the demilitarized zone the south warning to that its neighbor will pay a price of it does. i no team. no shots. actually. well. no 1st. point should your thirst for action.
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the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person or those great. military thinks. we dare to ask. people. in france nationwide rallies by health care workers saw some ugly scenes on choose
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day tens of thousands turned to remind the government about its pledge to help medical stuff and support hospital but as the day progressed the peaceful protests took a darker. then this video of a french nurse being injured during her violin to rest at the rally in paris sparking a fear is reaction online a free for reader campaign also sprang up police say she was detained for throwing projectiles at officers frieda was eventually released from custody and is jus in
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court in september charged with rebellion when police seized her as she was heard saying she couldn't breathe and asking for harassment medication. her. english i heard much about everyone applauded medical staff at 8 pm for months but no one avoided by the health of my mother or other health care workers do in these 2 months for a long time medical personnel have said that the suffocating but they're not being heard perhaps you should ask yourself how come a 51 year old woman a mother of 2 who has worked for 20 years in the public service for 20 years is a health care worker never complain network how did she come to this. additional aid to come or operators from r.t. france who were also injured while filming some of the rest when people began throwing stones at the police both receive treatment from medical workers who were there at that rally. and when it comes to policing officers in france will still be
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able to use controversial restraining methods news on but came out monday the government backed truck then i'm completely banning chokeholds after opposition from offices covering it charlotte dubai and ski for us. but says 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
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described the technique as essential. my colleagues who used the chokehold 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 to work so this is turned out to protest throwing their hand cuffs. on the bar what are we 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. how do we proceed with individuals who refuse to be arrested we're 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
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. it is unfortunate that interior minister custom there reconsider his decision to abandon the practice of chokehold and the danger of 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 which is one of . those of the. stun guns so in limited but increasing use in france up almost 70 percent between 2017 and 2019 last year the use of stun guns proved fatal ones while others suffered severe injuries while stun guns or increasingly
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becoming the weapon of choice of course europe enforced even the police concern use. we must understand that when the police use force 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 and what forces him buckled in a row over whether or not the force is all racist to brutal or just doing their jobs offices all seeing their methods to control friends suspects being severely beefed up. just in your past there is a real problem of racism there's a document check principle based on appearance there is a certain cover up of the problems their denial is institutional in nature the 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
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for national unity as long as hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens are afraid to meet the police. when they go out of the street this indicates a serious problem and significant function in our republic. this was big news in the wake dramatic deterioration in korean relations choose day the north blew up the only negotiation outpost of the south sending their heavily strained relationship already to a dangerous new low. before that they've been weeks a dispute with the size which peeled young players for stalled peace talks and failing to stop the fact is distributing cross border propaganda north korea also the latest threat to send troops into the 3rd militarized borders of wiping out the deal introduced tensions for the south it was agreed barely 2 years ago. the artillery units deployed will operate the level of the from guard duty to top class combat duty system through the front line and will resume all kind of regular
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military exercises in the areas close to the boundary of the north actually take such a move it will certainly pay the price for it. north korea's been complaining in recent weeks that propaganda leaflets have been flowing from the south claiming it's in violation of those reached agreements we talked about some defector groups have indeed been sending flies by balloon across the heavily fortified border into the government in the south has taken police action against those groups saying their activities were not helping efforts to achieve peace and prosperity on the korean peninsula then another twist on saturday kind of thing reports emerge from north korea that there were going to retaliate with their own leaflets career especially as gabrielle but now believes the north sold some of they could really be about getting attention from much further afield i. think it's just because of those leaflets those anti north korea propaganda. which they say that's why they
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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 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 distributed over to the border in north korea so i definitely believe that this is their kind of a last. he'll marry attempts to really get america's attention which is becoming increasingly difficult with this domestic situation in the us now so i think that's why they're resorted to such aggressive act now they are otherwise maybe wouldn't have done in their eyes they're probably thinking well we tried diplomacy we tried talking to trump we tried sitting down with the south korean president we tried taking the diplomatic peaceful route but well it's not really gotten us anything and we're still being hurt by the sanctions our economy is in shambles. everyone's
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ignoring us internationally right now and nothing's really going on that's helping us really so we haven't really got much out of it something to consider that they might think they might have felt very desperate. a coronavirus scare of the week with more of one anyway china's chief epidemiologist now saying this week corona virus outbreak in beijing was described as very serious is now under control the capital had to partially lockdown though after a flare up of cases traced back to beijing's biggest food market several employees tested positive at that market where an outbreak could also been registered all that a week ago it's since been temporarily shut down flights to from beijing have been halted and schools closed tens of thousands of residents having to be tested in fact it led to a lengthy queues forming their hospitals on the sports complex in beijing as part of a mass screening program china had seen many weeks of reporting on the small numbers of cases professor why when who's the executive doing it china is renmin university
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shared his thoughts on the new outbreak. expecting to find us with it because beijing issues how. i believe so true but you will not because i know. in the past a mouse has accumulated sufficient experience against the one about us almost as if he's in beijing. wear masks every day i believe that the outbreak should be she will not be more serious than they are you wow 5 miles are now days and. maybe the 2nd week of the pandemic is coming so because the chinese government has not relaxed its precautions against a spread of about us. so they keep a good handle on who they stay safe and well but was the weekly from our to internationalise not sure of the stories we brought you over the last 7 days
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reporting from moscow is kevin i was sunning often arjuna's here in half an hour thanks for watching and enjoy the rest of the weekend. some control for a middle class the homeless of a night muslim are very hardworking people who want to get ahead that either have some some health issues or have some of how destructive bad luck a full time job won't always pay for a place to live and missing just a month's rent can get she was a victim to gunpoint if anything bad happens to any thing that just throws your budget off slightly. you better catch up real quick or you're going to have a judgment of possession against you and get addicted to anyone that's homeless it is tree like garbage people look at you like a monster or someone batter you chose to be there most of the time it's not the
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