our headline stories this hour a knife attack in a park which killed 3 in southern england is declared a terror incident by police the sole suspect is reported to be a libyan asylum seeker also ahead. one person is killed in an overnight shooting in no police protests campaigners resisted officers preventing them from reaching the victims plus this hour a longer look at the week's main use. supporters rally behind a french norrish released from custody after a video of her to the restroom further protests her daughter later hit the

government's treatment of front line workers. a long time medical office. with the top stories from the past 7 days on right up to the moment of elements out as well this is your weekly on r.t.e. international hello and welcome. british police have confirmed that a deadly knife attack in a park in southern england on saturday evening is being treated as terrorism 3 people were killed in the instant in reading which is located around 60 kilometers west of london one victim has been named as a secondary school teacher. the edwards the with what else is known at this stage. 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 things 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 have to tell an 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 the suspect ran into full. 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. that this was declared a terrorist. as a result of. a clear that it was not associated in any way with a matter of protest which took place peacefully earlier on in the day there is no

specific intelligence to suggest that 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 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

bars restaurants they all remain closed at this point so parks all round 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. it sounds pretty tragic 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 were put in place due to the lockdown boris johnson the prime minister is now in contact with the police need in the investigation earlier today though he did meet with security officials place 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.

former london police detective peter kirk i'm commended the response in reading but ses officers there are likely to be working with fewer resources thus making it difficult on forces in 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. of a situation in the u.k. in germany a night of rioting left part of the western city of the garden of the turmoil some

19 police officers were injured as the authorities tried to get a grip on the situation which they described as totally out of control it's believed the riots broke out to 2 officers conducting random checks in the city center related to a drugs bust shops were broken into cars smashed up including police vehicles and germany's federal relief team has been called in to assist with the clean up operation the stock car police confirm 20 people were arrested in the chaos. right to the u.s. where seattle's police free occupation protests saw a shooting overnight one man is dead another injured officers say they had trouble trying to get into the area and got a violent reaction from the cried the initial shots were fired in a park in the so-called autonomous so.

was. the suspect or suspects are still at large seattle police retreated from the zone after protesters started throwing projectiles. officers to use product control weapons the capitol hill organize 'd protests or chop. polling a district in central seattle for 2 weeks the president trump reeled the protesters during a campaign rally today helping this to say. and i have it off or rather say that each time you one will come in will straighten it out in one hour or less. no i've made the wrong. what is probably better for us to just watch that disaster when earlier in the week this video began circulating online showing a protester a partly hunding eyed assault rifles to minors which is illegal in washington state

activists book since he walked us through this a few days ago and he's since left after the deadly shooting but this was his initial take. when was the last time they used and 2 cities at once to my right is the city of seattle typically dreary monday afternoon to. the capitol hill top of the so what is now becoming. currently standing outside of the seattle police department's precinct which has been abandoned 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 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 the

30 years of already story a lot of people look for a president to see what this changes over to 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 have 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 protesting our protests we need some sort of protection. whether that be guns or whether that be our voices we need that shot your guns what kind is it it's. so are you worried about the police coming up in here and trying to bust us out trying to move this thing out it really allows for the empty racism side of the ongoing protests activists have been continuing to take a month wolf they say are hurtful reminders of the slavery you're incidents of

confederate statues being talked bold curried all nationwide throughout the week even though the president called the situation of the scrapes to the country demonstrators say well they're determined to carry on regardless. on take a look at this in the state of virginia b.l.m. supporters carrying guns and surrounding the statue of confederate general robert e. lee to describe their armed patrols us protecting people ringback from the ku klux

klan on the monument and self has been widely sprayed with graffiti and photos of police brutality victims place to run the statue protesters call the money meant a reminder all of the oprah show and. the reason why i'm here is because of this statute that time you know this day she was brought a lot of a lot of her personal people want to see it now and you have certain confederacy people certain klan people said and so the 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 and when i haven't met this is day when i haven't let's move from statues to shop shelves another major american consumer brand overhauled its packaging this week to avoid being labeled as racially insensitive cream of wheat breakfast porridge became the 4th branch in a 24 hour period to reassess the use of images of black people to sell its killer poppins been looking at the levels however of sincerity that went into that

decision. 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 joe myers and many other and cakes in the world we recognize and origins are based on a racial stereotype while work has been down over the years to update the brand will realize those changes are not enough. was based on the 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 found in chris wright a white man again the name after attending the national show they black face did you also know he hired former slave nancy green to be his barry allen jim hannah where she went around to the pancakes instead of people stories of the good ole sack and afterwards they did say how about survive somehow and the feeling of having their very own mammy 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 will now kneel for a moment of silence. just a time. purpose to seize and to listen and heal 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 go. social stability in the united states and its commentary these are neck the issues that go up to 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 cullen every products . artsy new york. also in the big stories of the week at ca lumps in relations in korea literally the north dramatically blows up a diplomatic outpost then follows to send troops into beaten militarize old the side meanwhile warns its neighbor will pay a price more on balance in moments. join

me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

it in minutes past 10 pm here in moscow welcome back let's start back in front square nationwide rallies by health care workers soul some ugly scenes on choose the 10s 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.

the police accuse some violent individuals hijacking a peaceful protest about a video of a french nurse being injured during her arrest at a rally in power sparked a furious reaction to like a free for rita campaign sprang up in response police say she was detained for throwing projectiles out officers for it was eventually released from custody but is june in court in september charged with rebellion when police seized her the 52 year old was heard saying she couldn't breathe i'll ask him for her medication. i heard everyone applauded medical stuff at 8 pm for months but no one wanted to

buy the health of my mother or other health care workers do in these 2 months when one time medical personnel have said that they accept the katyn 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 put 20 years as health care worker and never complain explain how did she come to this. this need to come or operators from r t france were injured while filming some of the unrest when people began throwing stones police both receive treatment for medical workers who were up the rally at least equal or when it comes to policing officers in france will still be. to use controversial restraining methods at the start of the week the government tracked down completely banning cho call after opposition from officer charlotte dubin school gets a little bit deeper into that now. 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 i mean the chokehold 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 hand or next protest is 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 to walk so

this is turned out to protest throwing their hand cuffs. on that but i wasn't 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 are 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 . it is unfortunate that interior minister custom there reconsider his decision to abandon the practice of chokehold and the danger of which he himself could record 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 the stuff 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 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. but told in a row over whether or not the force is all racist to all just doing their jobs offices all seeing their methods to control friends suspects being severely beefed up just when you ask there's 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 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 onto the streets this indicates a serious problem a significant malfunction and now in public. there was a dramatic worsening in korean relations on tuesday the north blew up the only

negotiation outpost with the saw if sending their heavily strained relationship to a dangerous new low. well there's been weeks of dispute with the so i thought which pyongyang blames for stalled peace talks on feeling to stop defectors distributing cross border propaganda north korea also later threatened to send troops into the demilitarized borders old all but wiping out a deal to reduce tensions with the saw at the great burly 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. north korea's been complaining in recent weeks that propaganda leaflets been flowing from the sides claiming it's in

violation of the reached agreements some defector groups been sending flyers by balloon across they have only fortified border the government in the south 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 in fact that north korea was going to retaliate with its own leaflets korea specialise bernal believes pyongyang's ultimate aim could be about generating attention much further afield though. i 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

flyers that we're you know desperate distributed over to the border in north korea so i definitely believe that this is there a kind of a last he'll marry attempt to really get america's attention which is becoming increasingly difficult with this domestic situation the us 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 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 are on a 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 something to consider that they might think they might have felt very. desperate. all right time next for another visit to oksana and the worlds apart

team another lively discussion gets going in moments do join me for for more on the week it was this is marty. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on often very dramatic developments only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of god i'm timed to sit down and talk. in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalists attacks particularly catholic population in belfast tens of thousands

were forced to flee their homes come up with strike can put these attacks was a p.r. you see the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were active participants and the burning of full streets in belfast at the time more than a 100 innocent civilians were unloaded as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and of the currents which the inclusion was involved in some of those cases the killers would later be named to the now new jag i think it went to the very very top i think it the cross the water where politicians you thought was going on and give the go ahead. rahm. matter.

hello and welcome to part from the way to me interact with the environment to how we treat each other and i guess today believes the hold up in their own society is showing as the need so what's in there is my passion when it comes to all that 19 well just as an analogy by frank sesno mcnamara says. that is a diversity of the overall mix and society of the black president says noting that such an honor talking to you thank you very much for its.