our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history to shame our heroes the race of. independence day donald trump taking aim at people who want monuments destroyed as part of the intensified anti racism comeback. the plaited and the moralized over the coals to defund the american police struggling with battered reputation with the majority saying they never want their children to become. busts of lies any distancing bars restaurants that. open their doors from. what the prime minister appealing to the planet public to go easy.

but after 3 pm here in moscow thanks for watching r t at the weekend with me. the next 30 minutes with the latest from a world news h.q. for you here in moscow 1st than presidential. 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 of course for the backdrop of weeks of antti racism protests which is seeing demonstrators seek to remove or destroy statues linked to slavery along with symbols of the civil war confederacy all indelibly linked to that era. our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history to fame our heroes erased of their years and indoctrinate our children angry mobs are trying to tear down

statues of our founders to face our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave 'd of violent crime in our cities a few hours before that address those a standoff between the national guard and protesters led by native american activists 100 blocking the road leading to the trump a vent right police shot smoke shells at their feet in use pepper spray run 15 protesters were arrested as the deadline set them to leave past. so this year there are likely to be a few mixed emotions as americans mark their history and it perhaps means new questions over traditional symbols to more about from double 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 their part of the greatest country around america is the greatest country in human history great country on earth 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 needs 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. for just. over a 1000000 mean 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 in statuary hall park you can see how it's been built allies with red paint on the words destroyed races another statue in portland has been taken down by protesters this time george washington video and 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 it could see us forgetting about things that we don't want to forget

about there may be statues and and different types of symbols that might need to be removed but if we leave it up to the looks it will 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 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 there was this for the 2nd night in 3 days police in portland to the state of oregon declared protests there to be a riot. thank. you. latest

one there had remained peaceful for a bit through the night until a group of protesters set fire to some wood outside the justice center police then say several people started fires threw rocks and launched projectiles with sling shots at officers and talk of officers in the police generally the reputation of american police is of course taken a major blow over the last month with calls to defund or disband forces it's hitting morale there for maybe no surprise to hear it a recent survey of officers 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 a lack of support from bosses an overall lack of respect for the profession and concerns for officer safety however all that said ray lewis is a retired philadelphia police captain he says he would recommend joining the police now and he told us 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 and 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 ice 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 a police brutality be there in them their family their names we've heard their relatives it was a late night there's been police brutality since day one but net and now what i consider one of the greatest inventions ever is the video cell phone 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 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. developments in england rico over the excess of her 1st time in months there in england people can now meet up for a drink eat out and go to the movies after the government began lifting some of the coronavirus lockdown restrictions people could also get their hair cut for the 1st time since march well the 1st professional cuts at least so long as restaurants cinemas and other public places were allowed to open at midnight them for bars while they had to wait until 6 in the morning of time and a few customers took advantage of the less to get

a boozy breakfast all the newly reopened businesses must adhere to the rules on masks and physical distancing which is reduced from 2 metres to one metre plus tricky to work out sometimes some couldn't wait though and then there was this 2 police trying to break up this illegal street party in west london friday night there's been a few of late officers had to run for it the crowd chasing them off pelting her with bricks and bottles a lot of pent up tension right now after such a long long 7 officers were hurt doing their job prime minister boris johnson encouraging people to start getting out to support hospitality business is hit so hard but at the same time as well to be all so careful. doctor and only succeeded in controlling the virus because everyone worked together and we will only succeed in really if everyone works together again because we're not out of the woods yet but i will certainly buy and drink a pint but not

a yard and i really do is repeat the message to everybody and this is a big turning point for us we've got to get it right let's let's work together and enjoy some safety is it the right time to all on the house a little early. on that also going to. hold us to community spirit is a little. different my concern is. also on the fact. that the. to of what. has been done on a saturday. without any thought given to hold the emergency services to look. at. what could we not have tried to. one of the few of us to see how things were reacting with the already or welcoming both of the social distancing measures but looking 2nd has already been on the cards in the recent below it is the best estimates we suspect that anything between 80 to 90 percent got pollution of

the united kingdom. not being exposed to cope with it we can't just what we're going to know. but. not about is normal but not that it's a big risk. like derrius says it's saddened to sculptures it says belong to the country's igbo community been auctioned off in paris the country maintaining them stolen than during the 1960 civil war but the auction house christie's insists the sale of this week was legitimate. these objects are being lawfully sold having been publicly debated and previously sold over the last decades prior to christie's involvement the curator of nigeria's national museum says the works should be repatriated and compensation should be paid he also appealed to other auction houses to to stop sales of artifacts suspected of being looted during the war evoking the black lives matter movement a petition to try and stop the christie's auction said that racial injustice

applies not only to the black body but also to black culture and identity the sale 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 art dealers pocketed trophies along the way after the war. these cultures that i was a particularly interested in were taking in $6869.00 while there was a civil war going on in a chair and these were stolen from their original owners and shipped across the border. where these european dealers well waiting for them and pretty much what christie's was saying is that it was not european dealers that stole the objects from the original owners and they are free to sell them you know other words it's all ok to sell the west only by someone

else this is basically what they're claiming and i think that is rum i don't think that that can be sustained in any legal proceeding. chinese media is zeroing in on washington's top diplomat for funding tensions between china and india secretary of state my pompei are lauded india for banning dozens of chinese mobile apps amid a simmering territorial row which we reached a deadly peak last 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. it will also boost india's integrity and national security as the indian government sell itself has stated acting like a cheerleader the u.s. is guaranteed india with no real investment but inspiring lip service it will not benefit india's development if the countries 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 friend the flames of hatred against china. remarks came after india banned the citing national security concerns tensions between the 2 countries reached a real head last month as mentioned when 20 indian soldiers were killed in a brutal clash with chinese troops in disputed border territory on top of all that there's anger too in india over claims that china is flooding the country with cheap imports so the government describes as unfair competition so having face strong pressure over her best to try to respond to what it sees as chinese incursions into prime minister narendra modi paying tribute to the killed soldiers during a surprise visit to the disputed area but china is warning its neighbor against making a strategic miscalculation and for the 2 to work together for the sake of stability chinese international relations expert to go told us washington is exploiting these

heightened tensions at the moment. i know right now has a balled up problem which can get lots of cite but other countries especially the united states to me superpower militarily speaking the world should avoid each getting involved should avoid to picking one side against the e.u. although the united states seems to be very good. for the tension g. existed between china and india and even seems to be very eager to see the patients for the escalate it will be a very misguided a strategy for the united states to provoke higher level of tension between china and india china and india hold off more than 2000 it will be to us and both china and india need to stand very fun for peace and stability rather than being pulled into a war against each other. over enjoying a program to put

a very forward to this weekend coming up then on to international after the break off to breakfast it will be next out of the door more more people are talking about it public anger at feeling abandoned by brussels during the height of the pandemic has caused m t essentially to grow we examine the more news when we're back. off no no crowd. no shots. actually felt. well and strong no. points. your thirst for.

americans are growing at propitious rates because america empire because it's easy for the top to feed everything and leave nothing for everyone else so america will be better off if it was not an empire so the collapse of the us dollar it will be painful for a period of time but what comes on the other side will be i think a lot more amenable to. again russia's overhauled constitution is now in effect following the weeklong vote that wrapped up wednesday the majority of voters indorsed the changes with some 78

percent in favor for return to their own 68 percent the bulk of proposed amendments concerned social legal and economic guarantees the package also redefines eligibility for the presiding for the presidency restricting future leaders to serving only 2 terms maximum the most contentious amendment those the resetting of limit putin's terms of lowing him the possibility to run for another 2 terms if he chooses to step. facebook's admitted letting 3rd party developers improperly access users personal data again the company's repeatedly promised to clean up its act but thousands of ups of nonetheless continued gathering uses data long after they stopped using them jacqueline vogel looks into why the social media giant apparently isn't learning from its 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's once again that been a privacy breach of the book this time it's nothing earth shattering but the

company does estimate around $5000.00 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 the 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 i'm 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 users that had their information that you heard 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 falling and 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 now apologized 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 facebook 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

you mean time of trouble over google a fellow into the joint has got his own privacy battle it sounds it's no one a $2000000000.00 mission to buy up the fit the structure and device make a fitbit the deals caught the attention of european regulators and privacy campaign is because needs access to a lot of very personal data to work properly like sleep rates every day physical activity consumer groups through the google could try to monetize that was private serve information. regulators must assume that google will in practice utilize the entirety of fitness currently independent unique highly sensitive data set in combination with a cell phone but equally as 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 percy campaigner and technology expert bill miro isn't so sure

though. we're now seeing a further acquisition this time by google of bits and whereas 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 danger 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 lesson less trust on all sides each time that facebook and google and others make further mistakes and make slow the promises that will eventually lead to keep the amount of trust in their arms 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 breaking away from brussels to capitalize on growing anti e.u. sentiments than the coronavirus celebrates compared to those feelings plenty of italian say they felt abandoned by the e.u. as the pandemic took hold brussels eventually apologize for neglecting its a u partner and agreed bailout packages although how quite that so going to be used is up for debate at the height of the outbreak a survey showed that 49 percent of the talons wanted out of the e.u. another. studies suggested trust in brussels has dropped 64 percent since 2001 and of course the other link with brussels is the shared currency the euro it's 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 the senate who setting up this new bureau skeptic party believes italy needs to leave the e.u. in order to regain its economic power. at the moment we want to overcome the

perception the 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 elite 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 italy 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 definitely 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. if you get a minute chicken a social media razzi dulko so much more that i learn more from me here in the us he will new center in half an hour so reporting from moscow for now is kevin 0 in thank you for watching and hope you have a great rest of the week. you

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i am max kaiser this is the kaiser report this is the 4th of july special that's why states you look so great wearing red white and blue red white and blue and the purple of course is the shoes that blends it all together we're in a purple state here called north carolina which is a blending of the democrats and the republicans you know as we're getting ready for another year a year of basically tearing each other apart again there's no we have a lot of independents but not much cohesion you might say cohesion index is off the charts as the economists would say and i say we have our new tradition now of having the lobster for independence day to celebrate america because u.s. moves to protect lobster industry.