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from across the world are welcome to. o'neill. in the shadow of his presidential predecessors mount rushmore donald trump took aim at people wanting to terror don monuments say in an address on the eve of independence day he also decried the rise of quote far left fascism this year's 4th of july celebrations come with the backdrop of weeks of racism protests and riots which have seen demonstrators seek to remove or destroy statues make this their.

our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history to fame our heroes a race of values 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 of violent crime in our cities a few hours before the address there was a standoff between the national guard on protesters led by native american activists more than 100 block the road leading to the trump affair and riot police shot smoke shells up their feet harper's for around 15 protesters were arrested as the deadline set for them to leave. so this year there are likely to be a few mixed emotions as americans mark their history and on it perhaps means new questions over traditional symbols more not from 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. 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 thank you. thank you. 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 slow. 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 adriel 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 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 and you could see us going back to things 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 a 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 story 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. over the 2nd night in 3 days police in portland in the state of oregon the clergy protests there to be a riot. the latest one soul violence brickyard when a group of protesters set fire to some wood side the justice center police say several people started fires threw rocks and launched projectiles with slingshots officers. well the reputation of american police has taken a major blow for the pasta multiple calls to defend or despond forces it's hitting well a recent survey of officers find that a staggering 80 percent plus would not encourage their children to enter a career in law enforcement only 7 and a half percent said they would know some of the main reasons listed for that

include a lack of support from bosses let's take a look at some more year on overall lack of respect for the profession and concerns for officer safety that seems to be the big one however ray lewis is a retired philadelphia police captain who would recommend joining the police now 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 so sooner 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 heard their relatives it was only their spend police brutality since day one but never an out what i consider one of the greatest inventions ever is the video self a 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. let's move to

scenes of police and revelers on the legal block party clashing just as the government began lifting some of the coronavirus locked on restrictions in the country at least 7 officers were injured as authorities attempted to break up the unlicensed music event in west london on friday night allegations that there were rival drug gangs they were to police had to run for and after crimes began pelting them with bricks bottles and other items gathering tinning that by the way are still limited to 6 people despite the latest easing of the lock on the pubs and restaurants reopen. restaurants sentiments other public places were also allowed to open at midnight but bars had to wait until 6 am a few customers took advantage to get a boozy breakfast all 'd very nearly reopened businesses must adhere to the rules and masks and physical distancing which is reduced from one metres to one metre plus prime minister boris johnson encouraged people to start getting i to support

the hospitality industry but to also be careful to only succeeded in controlling the virus because everyone worked together. and we will only succeed in releasing 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 need to repeat the message to everybody 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 at the right time to all 100 to look at early term you know there are certain areas you've got to hold us to communities from as little. if not my concern. also on the fact. that decision to put. has been done on a saturday. without any thought given to hold the emergency services to look.

at it. what could we not have tried to have a pilot one of the few of us to see how things were reacting with the already or welcoming both of the social distancing which is what looking 2nd has always been on the cards and the recent below it is that even with the best estimates we suspect that anything between 80 to 90 percent got pollution of the united kingdom has not been exposed to cook that we can't just what we're going to know. but i will go back and all of. this is normal but you know there's a big risk. nigeria essays it's 2 sculptures it's seeds belong to the country's igbo community have been auctioned off in paros the countryman tains they were stolen during the 1960 civil war but the auction house

christie's insists the sale was legitimate. these objects are being lawfully sold having been publicly debated and previously sold over the last decades prior to christie's involvement. well the curator of one theory is national museum says the work should be repatriated compensation paid he also appealed to other auction houses to stop sales of artifacts suspected of being a new to during the war evoking the black lives not a 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 with a 2 wooden figure 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 of war these sculptures that i was a particularly interested it were taking in they did 6869 while there was

a civil war going on in one area and these west berlin from doubt original owners and shipped across the border. where you wrote here in. wellington florida and pretty much what christie's was seen is that he was not european dealers that stole the objects from the original owners or 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 a way that we any and i think that is rum and i don't think that that can be sourced in any legal proceeding. ok let's head around the world for some use them brief a protest hotspot in the u.s. seattle scene a hit and run incident involving 2 victims after a driver sped through a freeway closed for demonstrations the vehicle struck don 2 women in the road who

flew into the air before landing on the ground one has life threatening injuries on the other it's also in a serious condition the car was stopped on the driver and later taken into custody . to asia where at least a 162 people have been killed after a landslide hit a jade mine in myanmar it's still unknown how many more code to be missing as a tsunami of mud swept over workers at the site and rescue services were seen transporting victims out of the flooded pit officials say as of 954 people have also been hospitalized. and japan. against severe flooding mudslides at least 2 people are known to be dead as a result in the south of the country and more than a dozen remain missing many citizens were left stranded on rooftops waiting to be rescued while around 75000 people were asked to evacuate as the heavy storms set in . let's bring you back to russia where a 19th century orthodox church in siberia has been burnt to the drawing down after

being struck by lightning officials say over 30 firemen and 10 vehicles were involved in trying to save the wooden building to prevent the blaze from spreading into residential areas no casualties were reports. you're watching are to international coming all 3 spoke admits letting 3rd party developers improperly access personal data and it is a familiar story for the social media giant. 90 seconds on come and. join 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 if that.

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18 minutes into the program welcome back facebook has admitted letting 3rd party developers improperly access users' personal data again the company's repeatedly promised to clean up its act but thousands of apps have continued gathering users' data long after they stopped using them. looks into why the social media giant are partly isn't learning from 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 that 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 didn't 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 mean 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 were it up for profit now after that about a year later as dr 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 i want to stop the 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 mass does 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 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 anything 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. node locked on measures in germany i've seen some sex workers out in protest in berlin demanding that the ulnar activities be lifted the rally was organized by the sex workers union brothel operators association demonstrators who

are holding signs like open the brothels and let us work the ban was imposed back in march as part of the measures to fight victrola virus to make the. restrictions on sex work in neighboring countries are being gradually lifted in the netherlands for instance brothels reopened on july the 1st with some restrictions 2 months earlier than originally planned when the ban was introduced there in mid march though many in the 6 trade struggled those. angel the prostitution information center in explain to us. a lot of the secular who are can throw a thing in. just doing sex but it's also. illegal at the time i i know. who. from their homes little sex workers who decided. to gather. our friends

like 6 or 8 sex workers to get our money because they could have paid our bread any more particular for. march couldn't pay her rent. could have profiles for her children anymore. and she didn't see a way out basically and deaths why killer so i think it's so. you know it's such a pity because. she could have been helped by the government but the dutch government still gets to help the mind multinationals doing stuff and that's a sex worker should be for what they are. for many within the industry of lost income assuring the covert $900.00 just to stay with the netherlands alou the dutch government did provide financial support many sex workers were not eligible for

foxy angel again tells us how the system works. contracts are in a coma that's a fair hearing well let's. get some funding from the. government. but when you're working from that. thing instead you go to work places like the. r us i'm going to give you some soup. you know they were not acknowledged by their governments as being. part of. opting in so yeah those people have the right my me. tell you and senator sees 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 the coronavirus breakers compounded those feelings many italians say they felt abandoned by the e.u. as the pandemic took hold brussels eventually apologized for neglecting it c.-u. partner agreed to be allied packages although how they'll be used is still up for debate at the height of the outbreak a survey showed that 49 percent of italians wanted out of the e.u. another study suggests trust in brussels has dropped a mass of 64 percent since 2001. the other link with brussels of course is the shared currency the euro it's still got support in a plea according to a poll there last month more than half of the public are ok with it while a 3rd oppose that the senator 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 and 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 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. our news is shipping up always lots of content being added on our social network icons get right up to date. you find the r.t.e. logo on more great programs right ahead you're on there.

we go to work so you straight home. secret prisons are not usually what comes to mind when thinking about europe however even the most prosperous can be deceived within the 0 zone there were 2 view houses were allowed to leave prison was located and the only people had access to the story for investigators held the uncovered the darkest dealings of the secret services but i mean. the great ignore in. d.c. may be a sore knee it's an awful. thing for justice on oxy. lyme

afshin rattansi we're going underground is u.k. prime minister boris johnson allows pubs to pull pints for the british public while feel under the influence of the worst capita g 8 coronavirus death count in the world coming up on the show as u.k. prime minister boris johnson install. as another arguable yes man into the heart of british politics is barbara fathers' 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 the 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 i'm trumps he praised the author of the peach environ orcus professor richard stockwell told us of 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 groups and obligations and that is the sound of space basis for our international relations and be an absolute position of this national security law constitutes a clear and serious breach of the signing 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 let alone its imperialist record against china we make clear mr speaker that if trying to continue down this path we would introduce a new route for those.