around the world from moscow this 1st of all in the 2nd of july an hour to international law for a week long vote on changes to the russian constitution early results show almost 80 percent of voters but the amendments. elsewhere enough is enough police clear the self-proclaimed autonomy protests on in seattle after a series of shootings and repeated violence. a popular pro trump forum is banned from the discussion website read it over claims of hate speech coming up then we look at how the social network's big pull between public and political scrutiny. this is a strange one is chess racist because the white pieces move 1st well

a strong national broadcaster is accused of trying to stoke an inflammatory debate about it a former leading player told us the networks exploiting the racial debate. between western democracies there is an agenda that you push for increased racial tension and the a.b.c. tried to jump on that bandwagon by including. good morning from russia for me in the team here are these world news age q it's kevin owen with this hour's update 1st the week of voting across russia here's seen the nation decide on a raft of wide ranging amendments to the constitution was nearly all ballots no counted 78 percent voted in favor with around 21 percent against overall turnout appears to have been around 65 percent. election authorities insist the process was

transparent although there have been some claims of violations for instance security cameras to one suspected fraud of a woman a party see ballot stuffing in west a moscow vote counting at the polling stations been suspended he says could taylor was across the final day of voting along with you know neal here in the studio. while full 100000 polling stations across russia's fos to 11 times say it's officially closed meaning that the vote on the changes to the russian constitution has come to an end and what an unconventional vote it has beena meant to take place in april it was perspire and due to the coronavirus done for security reasons it was made into this mom must week long voting process that stretched from the 25th of june until the fust of july it's still people mostyn gloved up 13 and polling stations voting online voting. is there

a feeling among those who've been hitting the polls up to the wall no overwhelming issue that voters are getting behind or it's a generally this is the constitution this is the package this is what we want to have her say all this purpose white house really engage people not is of course reflected in the talent out 60 percent which might not sound like a lot but actually it is much higher than we have historically seen here and rush out with similar votes but it was not an easy decision for the people at all and i think that was in great part due to the all nothing the 13 scheme the fact that people had to vote either fool or against the entire package of amendments and that was of course an astonishing 147 of that was a real conundrum and i think really left people deliberating internally but i think what could have swayed it in the yes direction was the fact that the package of social amendments found incredibly white appeal things like adjusting the pension in line with inflation providing financial support for low income. families and

ensuring that the that the minimum wage never went below the cost of living so these are the kinds of things that affect everyone's day to day life so it really would have pulled people out to the polling stations that's not to say that this vote has been without its control for seized what about proved to be particularly polarizing and that was the one potentially concerting applied to make the current rules state that a russian president can solve 2 times in a row that means he could take a break and then come back an amendment would change that to to tums full stop much like in america but what proved to be the most controversial was the so-called zeroing out or a flight to make putin's previous tabs meaning that he gets a clean slate and so could potentially run in the future and that was what left a lot of people decided as to how to vote so a big day for russian politics as a constitution that has been in place since 1993 really shows its ability to adapt

and take on new and challenging geopolitical realities. here pick a promoter a member of the south could mention the research of the current presidential terms than it means that was a group could potentially run for another 12 years after his current men's something that spring ballroom west of media a lot more than any other proposed amendment. he's the longest serving russian leader since the dictatorial days of stalin and should he decide to run again it's looking like for the 16 years you know for much of us many of us observing this from around the world that's what the russians are voting on today do they want putin basically forever or do they want something different there is this feeling that it doesn't make any difference your vote counts for nothing there's nothing written can do if you wouldn't like to see him stay on in power some observers told 'd that you can just see from the results from the central action committee where people went for the went to vote for him terribly that turnout was about 30 percent

and where people were made to go to the to cast their ballots and that turnout was about 70 percent that's just not normal maybe at our translated by the easiest mess the edge truck could message is all the president want to stay here for 2030 seats and sometimes they are not so many enter starting complex framework legal framework like a constitution to find what really is important for the future of the country and for the society the normal people living in russia i found many many points where you still show reforms that he's there all all women and also the new balance of power would have deserved more attention but that the it's you know the good news is no news that some used to say i

reject these i studied your project 'd our constitution then i found something very interesting. in a sort of bring in the last couple of weeks nag's police have cleared out now the self declared autonomous protest zone in seattle activists occupy that area which became known as. after police moved out of their precinct building the campaign is saying at the time they'd hoped to create a peaceful police free utopia but that peace didn't last long as it turned out in the 3 weeks of protests the zone saw 4 shootings with them fatal there are also reports of assaults burglaries and even a rape the protesters some armed will board that they could face arrest if they didn't leave over 30 have been detained settle police released video to some of the violence. or. go.

to she moves. first the mayor wanted to leave the activist to the protest but she was later forced to take action how long do you think seattle in those few blocks looks like this. i don't know we could have the summer globes the deteriorating conditions and repeated gun violence required us to immediately address public safety concerns it was clear that many individuals would not leave and public safety could not be improved until they did leave so the message and came out to protest has marched on her home demanding police funding be cut off local activists that pose in ski watch the police move the protesters on. so i am outside of the pine street entrance of chop right now where a bunch of police have set up a barricade and the protesters are now beginning to gather not just. got there.

blocking the street trying to cause a little bit more awareness and the officers took that as an opportunity to fully enforce their version of law. oh yeah i want. the police came in to chop and ousted the remaining people who were staying there does that have around 32 arrests from your perspective what exactly happened basically i was that far and. far and again it all started when bang bang bang screams and. you know. there were a couple individuals who were speaking loudly red megaphone switching the crowd energized to actually bringing people in off the streets and the cops in a little bike brigade actually charging targeted those people arresting them individually and throwing them into the back of cop cars the far end of chalk. not

too long ago there were a bunch of tents in these areas there were people hanging out just living but. in 5 hours. everyone has been evacuated you know like you had a. pretty tough i tell them. my matches burned down. and there are other friends you know i don't think anybody in seattle did not see this coming ever since the string of 4 to 5 shootings that have. recently found out that the last shooting there was a 14 of a 16 year old kid who were killed so charles has actually been relatively empty and relatively quiet past couple days but i think that this morning it was. the cops decided it was time to put an end to it there's a lot of demoralization right now especially in the crowd of protesters because i think a lot of people are taking this is a bit of a loss because we. got much.

this entire idea. seems to have not only failed but come to an end. the social networks are under intense all round 6 because of the at the moment on getting a handle on hate speech so much pressure about the discussion website reddit then is the latest to make a move expand a large pro trump forum saying is violating the rules more ghastly of next than taking a look at whether the ax is falling because of public offense or political pressure maybe. it's a sad state of affairs isn't it what's happening to the internet to the discussion increasingly no one month stay here an opinion that isn't theirs or that they don't agree with even recognize it specially the education but that is reddit which has just done the internet's largest community of donald trump supporters as

a place for community and belonging not through attacking people who don't hold has been in violation of one could direct reddit cvs to take a look at the hundreds of ads he trump groups are a target to wave of bile but what's the point it isn't a hate if they agree with it which is what users are now saying this ban wave that included the donald targeted mostly conservative voices. read it's been a bunch of mostly irrelevant sub thread it is just a cover to ban the donald which was the largest problematic munity on the internet reddit just banned 2000 separate it's almost exclusively right leaning channels censorship is very real i don't support trump but the censorship hate speech is subjective it is what that's ok right it isn't public property it's a private enterprise they can do whatever they want bad whoever they want at the

same time radical left sub right it's where people can organize harassment that attacks and pump out vile hate those communities thrive the way conservatives see it what reddit and other tech companies are doing isn't about protecting minorities it's about using minorities as an excuse to shut up trump and his predominantly white american supporters you can't make this monstrous. prejudice up big tech is well out of control twitter and other social media platforms targeting their bias against president trump and conservatives on line big tech is out of control filled with hubris and flagrantly silencing those with whom they disagree from conservative media organizations to the president of the united states senator cruz by the way along with millions of

conservatives of looking to paula a website that dubs itself as an unbiased alternative to leftist run bread it's an twit isn't facebook's and some trump officials are ditching twitter for a new social media platform which is called pala so paul i'm a big waves claiming to attract $2000000.00 freedom and free speech loving uses in just over 2 weeks what you think happened next that the right wing platform embrace leftist. views of the pinions or and me to start banning them exactly like left wing platforms that are bad in conservative.

the donald on reddit was a cesspit of barely concealed prejudice it's what i've always see that but so is so many radical left soubrette it's like the fascists have read it the way i see it the right in the left they deserve each other 2 sides of the same court both con stand hearing opposing views both con stand a chronology that there are opposing views and big tech where it should moderate and help it capitalizes and monetizes on people's prejudice and division is a safe space they say a pattern a little universe where you can move only with people like you and be the ads tailored to you and your browsing history and after years and years of this how can people find that surprising that the right and the left simply hate each other isn't a good thing if people running to their corners if people think it poorly or. republican

social network. it'll be an echo chamber they want to be where the action is and they want to be able to debate the other side everyone has had it up to their necks with silicon valley clear by other charity able. to. frame public discourse in this country the cold war we aren't we are and and we have been in a 2nd cold war in this country for a long time it's internal. chess may be a game of strategy skill and patients per for australia's national broadcaster it's turned out to be another paul in the global racism debate it seems the a.b.c. planned to ask radio all the audiences is chess racist because white pieces move 1st what didn't go down well with a former australian chess federation representative who was asked to take part in

the debate john adams refused and took to twitter to rebuke the a.b.c. saying the taxpayer funded national broadcaster is raising a relevant topics therefore during a pandemic is anger was echoed by world class players like the russian grandmaster anatoly karpov. the period of total insanity has begun what does it have in common with the centuries old game john adams who's 20 propelled the row into open then says that the order of who goes 1st has got nothing to do of race and called out the a.b.c. for inflaming racial tensions i was on the phone call the a b c one and to have a discussion about whether they should change the rule because of the current rochelle context i think it's a big scandal the fact that what goes 1st has nothing to do with race it all comes down to a convention established in the late eighty's i think in western democracies there is an agenda to push for increased racial tension and the a.b.c.

tried to jump on the bandwagon by including the fact that the a.b.c. decided to pick chess as a topic i think of fully exposed what their agenda is we don't need more tension would only to divide people i think it's dangerous if we allow games that have nothing to do with race to be. footnote to this the a.b.c. says it's a must be misunderstood the radio host whose show planned to hold the discussion insist they were looking for people to say chess is racist in said james valentine says they were looking to create fresh conversation about the world now going head into break just to set this breaking news. story on the results of the russian constitution vote the central election commission says all votes are now counted so the final declared result is this it's 78 percent in favor with iran 21 percent polling against turnout figures as we mentioned earlier around 65 percent so big

majority they're in favor of those big changes coming up. joining me everything on the alex salmond sure i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or. i'm sure. i'll see you there.

20 per cent of the time there's been an upsurge to report next in yemen has drawn out conflict the saudi led coalition has launched a fresh operation against the rebel who see movement there saudi state television saying it's off to missiles were fired at the capital riyadh the coalition classifies the who these as terrorists and has been at war with them since 2015 a year after year civil conflict 1st broke out it's considered by the u.n. in fact to be the world's worst humanitarian crisis at the moment and this is one of the worst affected cities.

i haven't had a productivity due to the war i abandon my house i was afraid for my children and you had to leave after a show in our home and completely destroyed it now we have nothing to get the pedals. up the house but they left it does me in 5 years the war entirely eases left behind destruction and levelness and especially homesick for example on the eastern side of chinese it looks like he's been hit by a hurricane. that hit the damage spreads to public institutions like hospitals and other services in general dozens of institutions and hundreds of hundreds thousands

that are destroyed beyond use that. this is new in the german defense ministry is to partly dissolve an elite commando unit over right wing extremism in the ranks partly reporting from berlin on that the next is our europe correspondent peter all of. for over 70 years germany's muscle on the international stage is being economic as opposed to military but a developing neo nazi scandal inside an elite unit of the german armed forces has caused outrage among the public and forced the government into a visible response the key ski cannot continue to exist in its current form it must be changed from within and better integrated into the boom disappear who will give

the case key town to press the reset button. k s k drawn from the best of what the bond is there has to offer but it seems some of germany's special forces have been harboring some d.p. unsavory beliefs. i. worryingly

those in the know believe this goes deeper than a few bad apples and one unit in the guns cause even if the vast majority of soldiers are in line with the constitution i'm great winick stream ism is not a new phenomenon in society and. we have identified a new dimension. as it stands one of the k.s. cases for companies which is understood to be the fulcrum of extremist activities will be disbanded all together with the remaining commando units brought under mortar. control of the bond is very chain of command critics of the move say this is just window dressing and doesn't deal with the real problem yet and finally there is a comprehensive package of measures from leadership training to social research in attitudes and there it's all correct but so far it's only on paper as shocking as the revelations about the k s k r right wing neo nazi extremism has been and continues to be investigated across

the german military with hundreds of new cases being launched the defense ministry giving a clear public message that extremism has no place in the book there isn't a minister our defense minister follows a 0 tolerance approach this is not only about this pressure forces command this is about something fundamental about the case key has become and that cannot be denied very conspirators in the last weeks and months. the thing is some of these ideas that are being investigated in the military are also prevalent among the general public last weekend so until immigration politicians leading a demo against migrants and the left wing who they blame for violence last month. some of those in attendance drawing inspiration from the united states even if the protest and counter demo were far from the scale we've seen on the other side of the atlantic. there's a lot of pressure on defense minister and

a great can count to get the response to this far right extremism scandal correct the woman who had been tipped widely as a potential successor to angle a miracle is chancellor until she counted as self out of the running as a potentially tricky job on her hand the government has to appear on waving when it comes to stamping out far right extremism in the military but also understanding to the concerns of those on the right of the public who they'll be looking to for votes when it comes to election time. next year. not sure what we're covering today if you want to see more teams online and social media working around the clock for you as well for now the reporting from moscow is kevin i would say thank you for watching this update and have a great day we're feeling.

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welcome to the alex salmond show from strike an album didn't show up in scotland but i guess today is a very special academic everyone who's on the left did up by a beer has caused to be grateful to the us and everyone without a god for racial equality should listen carefully to what he's got to say so godfrey henley all of a comma or b. is a professor emeritus in the school of life sciences had a universe. and a human rights activist he discovered the bali abrasion process while reception at the brewing resets phone dacian in the late sixty's in 1908 palmer became the 4th passing on the fust european to be honored before the american society of brewing chemists award of the stench and consider of the nobel prize of brewing. and once you make your mind just probably came the 1st black professor over in scotland and

he was melted in $2014.00 today i've got the great pleasure of speaking to geoff pam oliver is wife and work force over to go was good just made up your tweets emails and your messages thank you alex we passed a fantastic response last week to understand she was featuring professor tom divine and professor john robinson with hundreds and hundreds of messages and record viewing pleasure is over 3 quarters of a 1000000 on faith alone we hear 1st from tom brady who says just hope the current school leavers are better equipped with a foursome understanding of our history as to tom suggested should be the new word and the 1960 s. show in a ducal says very interesting points raised as to what to do or not to do with the statues and other monuments which are causing offense to many it is great listening to tom devine and al examined harvey says why not a new placket touched stating the world has evolved ethics have changed slavery is

unacceptable in 2022 to sherman from johannesburg says once again humankind chose itself as the most destructive species on earth even destroying its own monuments marcel from ontario says this is so sad to see history destroyed no matter what happened in the past we live too much in the past edwyn from london says the western european civilization has built its wealth and legacy on the strength of colonialism imperialism capitalism mercantile ism which is mostly based on exploitation and marginalization of africans i'm learning since the death of floyd that western european civilization is not a meritorious one debra from durban said no maybe it wasn't meritorious but it is what it is every event in history was progress from the previous event every generation has its own tilt to tell and progress step to take at the.