breaking news from r t a knife. which killed 3 in southern england is the 3rd terror incident bipolar also ahead on the program. one person is killed in an overnight shooting in seattle no police protest zone campaigners resisted. 1 preventing them from reaching the victims plus this hour among our look at the week's main news. supporters at rally. nourished released from custody after a video of her arrest for the angry protests her daughter. the

government's treatment of medical workers. who are long time medical personnel. but then i've been here. with the stories from the past 7 days on right up to the moment of elements as well this is the weekly on r t international hello and welcome british police have confirmed that a deadly knife in a park in southern england on saturday evening is being treated us terrorism 3 people were killed in the incident in reading which is about 60 kilometers west of london r t the edwards has more on this. 25 year old man from reading last night was arrested at the scene around 7 o'clock local time which also left 3 people seriously injured now the british media and press are widely reporting that the 25

year old man is believed to be of a libyan descent though that's partly unconfirmed at this stage by any officials however one of the patients that was meant to tear hospital in the initial stage after those stoppings has now been discharged and another remains in stable condition but is currently under observation the counterterrorism piece has now taken over the investigation from the thames valley police meaning that they've declared a terrorist incident. now being seriously ramped up to the highest level now the head of the u.k. counterterrorism piece he said the suspect ran into for break out in the park 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 i can form reconfirm. that this was declared a terrorist. as a result so. 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 attending crowded 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 it's also understood that place 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 unconfirmed 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 by the attack and that lessons need to be learned one of these lessons obviously is the matter of security obviously the. i did kingdom is in the elementary stages of lifting the lockdown procedures head due to the corona virus and many people are taking to hanging out in parks during the lockdown is no where else is open pubs boss restaurants they all remain closed at this point so parks all run fortunately

not surveyed they're not let most of them don't even have any security and last night's events have really shaken the public in that matter. pretty quick. it sounds pretty tragic and it's the kind of thing that's happening and maybe next time. take you. so. loud 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 with the police need in the investigation earlier today though he did meet with security officials pleas and senior ministers at downing street all of this later this latest incident is hiding decorative other incidents across the united kingdom because as we know britain has been home to terror incidents in previous years.

before merlin the police detective chief inspector peter kirk commended the local police response but ses they're likely to be working with fewer resources than forces in the big 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 scene in this particular instance it seems like the attacker heard attacked 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. ok moving the program on seattle's police free occupation protests saw a shooting overnight one man is dead and another injured officer 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 this so-called autonomous cell. the suspect or suspects are still at large seattle police retreated from this so enough to protesters started throwing projectiles causing officers to use crowd control weapons the capitol hill organize protests or chop. a district in central seattle for 2 weeks not president trump real doubt the protesters during a campaign rally on saturday having this to say. and i have an awful rather say that each time you won will come in wall street did in one hour or less i know i

may be wrong. what is probably better for us to just watch that disaster. well earlier in the week this video began circulating online showing a protester a partly hunting out assault rifles to minors which is illegal in washington state to this book since he walked us through this only a few days ago he left after the deadly shootings but here's how he then describe the atmosphere before it took an ugly turn. when was the last time that you student 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 as chad is. currently standing outside of the police department's precinct which has been abandoned now after

a series of protests that devolved into riots seattle police department decided to be prudent to actually leave the station and so this is become the kind of epicenter for. the capitol hill autonomous. this absolutely beautiful mural of the recent black lives of been lost in these protests this is the. presidency where the siege is over to some down at cal anderson park right now which has become sort of a living center for the capitol hill autonomy and you can see in the distance quite a few tents and people been setting up and 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.

so are you worried about the police coming up in here and trying to bust this out trying to move this thing out. really. for the anti-racism side of the ongoing protests activists have been continuing to take aim at what they say are hurtful reminders of the slavery era incidents of confederate statues being talked both. nationwide throughout the week even though the president called the situation of this grace to the country demonstrators say they are determined to carry on regardless.

meanwhile in virginia b.l.m. supporters were currying surrounding the statue of confederate general robert e. lee they describe their patrolling as an attempt to protect people from the ku klux klan the monument itself has been sprayed with graffiti and photos of police brutality victims in place to run the. protesters have also called the monument a reminder of oppression. the reason why i am here is because this statute to this day she has brought a lot of a lot of pressure on people who want to see it now you have certain confederacy people certain claim people certain people who don't want to see it down they want to keep it up to remind us of the oppression to keep us in the system i have in that this is a day when i haven't been. well from statues to the shop shelves another major

american consumer brand overhauled its packaging this week to avoid being labeled as racially insensitive cream of wheat breakfast became the 4th brand in a 24 hour period to reassess the use of images of black people to sell goods and looks now at the levels of sincerity that went into that the 7. 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 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 your mind 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 the national show they black face did you also know he hired former slave nancy grace to be his very much amana where she went around to the bank case instead of people stories of the good ole sad and the as they had sent home about 7 to her and the feeling of having their very own man back laughing matter people. even over. 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 we one now neal for a moment of science. just a. purpose to seize and to listen. now is the time for racial justice 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 that's commentary these are net the issues that go up to millions of people into the streets and 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 kaleb mop an artsy new york. also among the week's big stories

a collapse in relations in korea the north dramatically blows up a diplomatic outpost $10.00 to send troops into bed to militarize old saw it warns its neighbor will pay a price more not in. the world is driven by a dream. no dares thinks. we dare to ask.

we go to work so straight home. all right let's start the program back in france where nationwide rallies by healthcare workers saw some ugly scenes on the choose they tens of thousands turned the government about its pledge to help medical stuff and support hospitals as the day progressed the peaceful protests took

a darker turn. police accuse some violent individuals of hijacking a peaceful protest video of a french nurse being injured during her a rest stop the rally in part a sparked a furious reaction online a free for rita campaign also sprang up police say she was detained for throwing projectiles our officers for rita was eventually released from custody almost 2 in court in september charged with rebellion when police seized her she was heard

saying she couldn't breathe asking for her medication. i heard everyone applauded medical stuff and h.b.r. for months but no one wanted to buy the health of my mother or other health care workers do in these 2 months when long time medical personnel have said that they asked the katyn but they're not being heard perhaps you should ask who saw how come a 51 year old woman a mother of 2 who has worked for 20 years in the public service for 20 years says how skilled workers never complain explain how did she come to this. to camera operators from r t france were also injured while filming some of the rest when people began throwing stones at police both receive treatment for medical workers who were out there relatively. well when it comes to policing officers in france will still be

able to use controversial restraining methods at the start of the week the government backtracked on completely banning chokeholds for opposition from officers more another aspect from charlotte didn't ski. france's 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 cast in there 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 to protest is haled 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 demand think to yourself this is turned out to protest throwing their hand cuffs. on the butt of what are also 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 choke hold ban suspending it until a so-called alternative can't 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 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 or 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 becoming the weapon of choice of course europe enforced even the police concern

us. we must understand that when the police use force because there is someone who doesn't want to obey the law when that certainly has banned from the police must be given a solution and we agree that a stun gun is not the solution and what is it called in a row over whether or not the force is all racist too brutal 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 problems there 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 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 street this indicates a serious problem and significant function in our public. there was a dramatic deterioration in korean relations on tuesday the north blew up the only negotiation outpost with the south sending their heavily strained relationship to a dangerous new low. there have been weeks of dispute with the side which pyongyang blames for a stalled peace talks unfeeling to stealth defectors distributing cross border propaganda north korea also later threaten to send troops into the militarized borders own all but wife being allocated deal to reduce tensions with the site agreed purdie 2 years ago. the artillery units deployed will operate the level of the from guard duty to top class combat duty system through all 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 paid the price for it. well north korea has been complaining in recent weeks that propaganda leaflets help being flowing from the so it claiming it's in violation of the reached agreements some defector groups sending fliers by balloon across the heavily fortified border the government in the south has taken police action against the group saying their activities were not helping efforts to achieve peace and prosperity on the korean peninsula on saturday reports emerged that north korea was going to retaliate with its own leaflets especially. believes pyongyang's ultimate aim though code really about generating attention much further afield. think it's just because of those leaflets those

anti north korea propaganda. 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 attempts 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're resorted to such a 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 tromp 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 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 got much out of it but something to consider that they my. they might have felt very desperate. living on china's chief epidemiologists this week's corona virus outbreak in beijing is now under control the capital partially locked door and after a flurry of cases traced back to beijing biggest food market several employees tested positive out the market were not brick had also been registered more than a week ago it's since been temporarily shut down flights to and from beijing have been halted schools closed tens of thousands of residents are having to be tested. lengthy queues for near hospitals on a sports complex in beijing as part of the must screening program china had seen

many weeks of reporting only small numbers of new cases professor one when he was the executive dina renmin university shared his thoughts on the new i break in the country. would be issues how. i believe. but you will not become a 2nd no one. in the past. has accumulated sufficient experience against the most of those he'd be where every day i believe that i'll be she will not be more serious than there was 5 miles now do you see. there maybe we. can be so because. it has

relaxed. precautions against this fragile about us. from the newsweek there was plenty of developments as well this sunday to keep you up to date on throughout the day here in moscow and join me again in a 30 minute. for the world to see that. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race in. spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time time to sit down and talk.

join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. in dublin the campaign group justice for the forgotten had for years been demanding a public inquiry into the double pneumonia bombings. it still took 7 years for the irish government 6 years after the ira's $994.00 cease fire to agree to a restricted form of inquiry under justice henry barr on the inquiry found in his own careful words and despite london refusing to cooperate with the inquiry.