as or put on the registry this is simply an hour in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. asian is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history the shame our heroes the race of years . to mark independent state donald trump takes aim at people who want monuments destroyed as part of the intensified anti racism campaign. the flate dean moralized overcalls to defund the american police struggling with a battered reputation with the overwhelming majority say they'd never want their children to become offices. facebook fails again admitting 3rd party apps have been wrongly harvesting uses data despite repeated promises to crack down on it.

the weekend with me kevin 0 in here today i'm here for 30 minutes with the latest from our world news h.q. here in moscow 1st then overlooked by his presidential preter says mount rushmore donald trump took aim at people wanting to ted monuments in an address on the eve of independence day this year's 4th of july celebrations come with a backdrop of weeks of anti-racism protests which is seen demonstrate to seek to remove or destroy the statues linked to slavery along with symbols of the civil war confederacy which are all indelibly linked to that era. our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history defame our heroes a race our values and indoctrinate our children angry mobs are trying

to tear down statues of our founders deface our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities a few hours before that address those a stand off to the national guard in protest is held by native american activists more than 100 block the road leading to the trump a vent riot police shot smoke shells at their feet and used pepper spray around 15 protesters were arrested as the deadline set for them to leave fast. so this year there's likely to be a few mixed emotions as americans mark their history and it perhaps means new questions over traditional symbols were not next from donald quarter. the 4th of july is a time for barbecues fireworks and of course the american flag a time when americans are exceptionally proud to be well american and for decades leaders have used the occasion to proclaim that they're part of the greatest country around america is the greatest country in human history. that

america is the greatest country on the face of the earth but this year people apparently are not buying it recent polls suggest only 17 percent of americans can confidently say that they're proud of the current state of their homeland and who can blame them this year's 4th of july falls on a day when economic recession a global pandemic and nationwide protests against institutionalized racism all plague the country the us desperately need solutions and the people desperately need a holiday but for some criticizing july 4th symbols of patriotism seems to be on the top of the agenda. many are calling to switch the national anthem from the star-spangled banner to america the beautiful supporters of the change say that the current anthem is racist since its composer own slaves and some of its original lyrics were no doubt outrageously bigoted but most americans rarely ever made that association in the 1st place.

flying the flag on independence day has been as american as apple pie for as long as memory serves but this summer the stars and stripes are feeling the heat thank you. for just. over a 1000000 means even signed a petition to replace the flag with this version of america's most patriotic symbol of course it was. likely not intended to be taken seriously but the sentiment remains. the founding fathers another icon americans can easily identify with they declared that all men are created equal and endowed with unalienable rights but in 2020 many have been more concerned

with their slave owning past and the statues built in their name have come under assault because of it washington parks the monument to its namesake is just the latest in the city to get painted over there in baltimore at the george washington memorial and statue of drill park you can see how it's been burned allies with red paint on the words destroyed races another statue in portland has been taken down by protesters this time george washington video on social media also shows them lighting it on fire america's latest on rest against police brutality is not the 1st time we've seen how a country's past can influence the president in a negative way but will attacking national symbols that serve to unite americans on independence day fix those problems or will they serve to further divide a nation that seems to be ripping apart at the seams it very well could end up being dangerous i mean we could see us going back to things that we don't want to go back to you could see is forgetting about things that we don't want to forget

about there may be statues and in different types of symbols that might need to be removed but if we leave it up to the looks it'll go basically it will go crazy i mean because we've got people on the left who are trying to tear down abraham lincoln and other members of the union so it's not just the confederacy some of them are just seeking to to to cause damage and destruction our nation has been very divided over the past 3 or 4 or 5 years or so it's been a lot of those that are next it's been a lot of the fringes fighting in the loudest on each side you know excoriated so it has caused a deep divide and i think it will take some time to get back to a sense of normalcy and to mend the rift that's been formed. for the 2nd night in 3 days police in poland in the state of oregon have declared protests that to be a riot. oh over at the latest rally there had remained peaceful though it through the night

until a group of protesters then set fire to some wood outside the justice center police say several people started fires threw rocks and launched projectiles with sling shots at offices. sides of this the reputation of american police has taken a major blow over the past month with calls to defund and disband forces it's hitting morale too in those offices a recent survey out has found that a staggering 80 percent would not encourage their children to enter a career in law enforcement only 7.5 percent said they would some of the main reasons listed for that include black of support from bosses and overall black of respect for the profession and concerns for officer safety however ray lewis is a retired philadelphia police captain himself he said he would recommend joining the police now and here is why. officers that are not encouraging young people to go into law enforcement are those officers who are afraid of accountability. they fear being held to the high standards of the job and so

far they've had free reign they've been able to do what they want when they want and now that's and it right there is no respect and there should not be until it's earned i said there are 19 of my years in the belly of the beast in the ghetto socio economically depressed black areas and that historically these people have seen and heard of police brutality either of them their family their names you heard their relatives it was a late night there's been police brutality since day one but never and now what i consider one of the greatest inventions ever is the video cell from white america is waking up because now all that they heard all their life is being contradicted by what they see i would absolutely encourage anybody to join the police force

because it's a changing police force now the new police force forces are going to be held much more accountable to be responsible to their communities and there is no more rewarding job then a police officer. nigeria says it sadden the 2 sculptures it says belong to the country's say it bo community have been auctioned off in paris the country maintaining that was stolen during the $160.00 civil war but the ocean is chrissie's insists the sale of this week was legitimate. these objects have been lawfully sold having been publicly exhibited and previously sold over the last decades prior to christie's involvement the curator of nigeria's national museum and saying the work should be repatriated and compensation should be paid he also appealed to other auction houses to stop sales of artifacts suspected of being

looted during the war evoking the black clothes matter movement a petition to try and stop the christie's auction said that racial injustice applies see and not only to the black body but also the black culture and identity but all that said the cell went ahead anyway the 2 wooden figures selling for nearly a quarter of a $1000000.00 a member of nigeria's national commission for museums told us there's no doubt that our dailies did pocket trophies of war these sculptures that i was a particularly interested it were taking in 6869 while there was a civil war going on in a chair and these were stolen from the air or regional. and shipped across the border. where the european. where waiting for there and pretty much what christie's was saying is that it was not european dealers all the objects from the original owners are there they are free to sober

you know their words it all came to sell the west a little by someone else this is basically where they're clearly and i think there is rum i don't think that that can be sourced in any legal proceeding. chinese media 0 in on washington's top diplomat we can report for filing tensions between india and china secretary of state might pompei or lord india for banning chinese mobile apps amid a simmering territorial row which reached the deadly pictures last 'd month. we welcome india's ban on certain mobile apps that can serve as an appendage of the c.c.p. surveillance state india's clean apple approach will boost india's sovereignty will also boost india's integrity and national security as the indian government cell itself has stated. like

a cheerleader the us is guaranteed india with no real investment but inspiring lip service it will not benefit india's development if the country is captivated by empty talk anyone with the signing eyes can easily tell what pompei or who keep spreading lies and misleading the public intended to do was nothing but grab every possible chance to prime the flames of hatred against china so remarks came after in the a ban the up citing national security concerns tensions between the 2 countries reached a head last month when 20 indian soldiers were killed in a brutal clash with the chinese troops in the disputed border territory and there's also anger too in india over claims that china is flooding the country with cheap imports something the government described as unfair competition having faced strong pressure over how to respond to what india sees the chinese incursions in the indian prime minister narendra modi paid tribute to the killed soldiers during a surprise visit to the disputed there are but in turn china is warning its neighbor against making

a strategic miscalculation in that area and for the 2 to work together for the sake of stability chinese international relations expert pick to go told us washington is exploiting these heightened tensions. and our right now has a border problem with india that's a fact but other countries especially the united states army superpower militarily speaking the world should avoid getting involved should avoid picking one side against the other united states seems to be very delighted for the tension existed between china and india and even seems to be very eager to see the tensions further escalate it will be a very misguided strategy for the united states to provoke a higher level of tension between china and india china and india share a border of more than 2000 dick. both china and india need to stand very

well for peace and stability rather then being pulled into a war against each other. 40 minutes past the hour on the button good morning this is art international coming up monks the stories after breakfast we ask will italy be next out of the door public anger a feeling abandoned by brussels during the height of the pandemic now of course i don't see you sentiment to grow we'll tell you about it when we're back. joined me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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personal data again the company's repeatedly promised to clean up its act with thousands of apps of continued gathering uses data long after they stopped using them jacqueline looks into why the social media giant apparently isn't learning than from his past mistakes. facebook might want to go ahead and make their motto sorry about that just to save us all some time it'll come as a surprise to no one but there is once again it's been a privacy breach of the book this time it's nothing earth shattering but the company does estimate around 5000 developers were able to gather information on users long after they were meant to in 2018 we announced it would automatically expire and apps ability to receive any updates to this information if our systems didn't recognize a person as having used the app within the last 90 days the recently we discovered that in some instances apps continue to receive the data we fix the issue to day after we found it that was also mentioned multiple times in the blog post that

users did initially give permission for their info to be collected so it's not only the company's fault that they didn't cut it off like they promised right and you do have to get facebook credit for trying to be more proactive about these issues but how many more apologies are people meant to accept this was a major breach of trust we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake it was my mistake and i'm sorry and i'm sorry for it but i'm sorry and i'm really sorry that this happened apparently sorry doesn't seem to be the hardest work plus there were these ads bought in major u.s. and u.k. newspapers that said things like we have a responsibility to protect your information if we can't we don't deserve it the irony about that was all among the cambridge analytical scandal when there was an estimated $50000000.00 users that had their information that we weren't up for profit now after that about a year later a sucker bird tried to turn things around by announcing his vision for

a privacy focused social media experience i believe we should be working towards a world where people can speak privately and live freely knowing that their information will only be seen by who they want to see it and won't all stick around for ever. if we can help move the world in this direction i will be proud of the difference we have me and yet the issues keep on coming which means trust will keep on following what is not a question of 3rd party advertisers or developers then it's an issue of features that the company itself made and has to apologize for really messed this one up somehow we missed this point with news feed in many feet and we didn't build in the proper privacy controls right away this was a big mistake when our part and i'm sort of for it. we have made a lot of mistakes building this feature but we have made even more with how we have handled them we simply did a bad job with this release and i apologize for it broken record much and yet the list goes on and on and on this article actually breaks it all down from the very

beginning before the company was even called face and yet here we are again but really what else can you expect from a company that works on an advertising based business model meaning those companies need your private information in order to properly target you and they're willing to pay for that and honestly do we really get to be mad anymore for me once shame on you fool me every other week well at least some things in life are predictable. for the internet giant google has got its own privacy battle on its hands to tell you about it's now on a $2000000000.00 mission to buy up the fitness striker and device maker fitbit the deal is caught the attention of european regulators and privacy campaigners however because needs to a lot of very personal data to work properly like sleep patterns heart rates and everyday physical activity consumer groups food google could try to monetize that most private of information regulators must assume that google will in practice

utilize the entirety of food this currently independent unique highly sensitive data set in combination with a cell phone but there is this could increase its profits. google insists it would not use any health data to target advertisement or sell it to 3rd parties it also promises to be transparent about what type of personal information is collected and for what purpose pretty campaigner and technology expert bill me you isn't so sure though. we're now seeing a further acquisition this time by google of flip it and where is facebook argued that it wasn't all about the data it was purely about the other networks and trying to create synergy between them and in the same way google is saying it's not about the data or it's about the devices that it's seeking to integrate into its ecosystem both organizations aren't actually being entirely truthful it is about the dates both organizations have

a business model that is all about data what we're seeing is a less sudden less trust of all sites each time that facebook and google and others make further mistakes and make slow the promises that they then fail to keep the amount of trust in aaron's in the relationship is reduced and i think what i think we're seeing is a situation where the regulators are being forced to take action. and italian senator says he's ready to launch a new political party with the aim of a breakaway from brussels to capitalize on growing anti e.u. sentiment the corona virus outbreak is compounded those feelings plenty of italian say they felt abandoned by the e.u. as the pandemic took hold brussels eventually apologise of course for neglecting it so you partner and has agreed bailout packages are there how that said to be used is still up for debate at the height of the break a survey showed that 49 percent of italians wanted out of the e.u.

another study suggested trust in brussels dropped 64 percent since 2001 and the other link with brussels of course is the shared currency the euro notes still got support in italy according to a poll there last month more than half of people are ok with it while only a 3rd oppose it so it is paragon a who's setting up the new euro skeptic party believes italy needs to leave the e.u. to regain its economic power. at the moment we want to overcome the perception that neo liberalism is the only model to base politics on today governments may change but the policy which is pursued always comes from brussels. this is long term reflection since we have been trapped in the european cage we have lost our purchasing power we have lost the momentum which allowed italian businesses to be competitive globally the weeks and months of covert highlighted once again an absolute lack of political will in the e.u. the e.u. does not exist there is only the german union which benefits the german economy

itself and the countries tied with it the point is that exiting the european union in euro zone means exiting a macro economic vision that has benefited only the financial elites and multinational corporations so far 'd we can do without the e.u. it does not seem to me that the e.u. strengthened italy's economy i would say the opposite we remember when it's really was a sovereign country it was the 4th power within the g 7 so we know perfectly well which direction to take to develop our country we will be able to go it on our own again to manage all the funds we need to relaunch the manufacturing areas of this country tourism desperately needs a fresh push as our attractions appeal to everyone the problem is that we do not have an opportunity within the e.u. to develop our economy and this made in italy brand like we should be doing. for french prime minister edward felipe is facing an inquiry over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic which claimed almost $30000.00 lives in france the move

came just hours after he and the government resigned ahead of a reshuffle 2 others have also been investigated a former health minister and his successor the court of justice which deals with cases of ministerial misconduct received 90 complaints against the government over the handling of the pandemic the complaints came from citizens doctors and unions and they include in danger the lives of others and even manslaughter the former prime minister said in a statement. and he took note of the decision and would help investigators had fully been stood down on friday as president michel moved to reenergize the government with a new prime minister and cabinet although polls suggest the people of the country have more time for phillipe than mccraw with clear blue water between their approval ratings last month french journalist and sunday telegraph columnist unless with new take but he's my crime won't be happy then with those numbers in the chase a few i don't think anybody can prove that she didn't shy to do his best and some of his best in this crisis where everything was new might not have been good enough

and i don't know the details but i can't see it being really trouble right now i keep an e-mail because they are leaving in good terms and the gossip i hear is that different. he didn't necessarily want to go that the president was offended by the fact that the prime minister had 20 quite small or a prepared speech that he had and there was a kind of miscalculation and the president gave us a bridge to orations during the qubit crisis and people just thought these were obviously not very interesting and meanwhile. what he was giving results and getting it by and taking questions and it coalesced in the mind of people not he was somebody who was competent you assume that he was not about himself and the impression was good and the result is that 2 years from the presidential election.

the suspicion is that immigrant always afraid of keeping. the question is he will dangerous outside or in. well i said so far wolf maltese will do send here with me in half an hour before him from moscow kevin though in thanking you for what you know give a great weekend. america and so long as they're growing it propitious rates because american empire right because it's easy for the top to feed everything and leave nothing for everyone else america will be better off if it was not an empire so the collapse of the us dollar will be painful for a period of time but what comes on the other side will be i think a lot more amenable to know. the one guy appear he was

a may found him literally dead like this standing up. a guard appears his girlfriend they were found in their apartment that they just got. cold and they were dead for like 3 days holding each other this wall so people who have lost their life surly to addition yeah this is from akron. that crown is better known as the meth capital of the high and it's a city where the number of drug addicts keeps growing every year. i came up when i was 14 and my whole family were drug addicts. throughout much of the 1990 s. and beyond and the doctors were encouraged in some cases incentivized to overprescribe. i mean enough to sedate a small country why you should also hear about people buy all that's that good stuff man we gotta go get to a dead guy was just crazy knew too much you know to do it. and they're still coming

you know one after the next. i'm afshin rattansi we're going underground is u.k. prime minister boris johnson allows pubs to pull pints for the british public while still under the influence of the worst per capita g 8 coronavirus death count in the world coming up on the show as u.k. prime minister boris johnson installs another arguable yes man into the heart of british politics his biographers favorite t.v. show yes minister still writing the rule book about the british civil service from coronavirus to the economy we speak to the co-creator of yes minister is a humphrey appleby jonathan lynn about whether politicians have given up speaking truth to power and in the week of that it may have putin's fundamental

constitutional referendum victory across a 65 percent past her and out in the russian federation is russia really a democracy at all we speak you know and he praised author of the putin paradox professor richard stockwell all this is all coming up in today's going underground at 1st the most famous publisher in the world julian assange and wiki leaks turned 49 in a london high security prison yesterday despite having been convicted of no crime and the united nations accusing the british government of torturing him and its global demonstrations against the u.k. government's human rights record prime minister boris johnson chose this week to attack china over human rights we stand for truth and obligations and that is the sound of basic basis for our international relations and be an absolute and the position of this national security law constitutes a clear and serious breach of the sign of british joint declaration so what is the coronavirus recovering british prime minister going to do about a new ongoing national security law that arguably echoes britain's own anti terror

legislation albeit after arguably illegal british wars from yugoslavia to iraq libya and syria. alone its imperialist record against china we make clear mr speaker that if china continue down this path we would introduce a new route for those with british national overseas status to enter the u.k. granting them limited leave to remain with the ability to live and work in the u.k. and thereafter to apply for citizenship and that is precisely what we will do now except of course 2 and a half 1000000 chinese citizens would presumably have to be quarantined before getting limited rights in a britain where corona virus has killed exponentially more than in the whole of the people's republic of china but as the united states continues to encircle china with military bases on today's u.s. independence day questions are being asked about democracy in britain this comes after britain's top civil servants mark sedwill announced he has to quit amidst widespread westminster gossip the.