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police are forced to retreat from. international news center in moscow this is our tea with me you know neal our top story this hour. in the shadow of his presidential predecessor or donald trump took aim at people wanting to monuments. on the eve of independence day. the rise of quote far left. this year's 4th of july celebrations come with the weeks of racism protests riots which have seen demonstrators seek to remove or destroyed. such is the state of. 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 room needing to be trampled and white police shot smoke shells on their feet. 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 perhaps means new questions

over traditional symbols more and not from artie's 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. 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. 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 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 as 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 divide and i think it will take some time to get back to

a sense of normalcy into the mend. the ripped or. well talking of which for the 2nd night in 3 days police in portland in the state of oregon declared protests there to be a riot. the latest night solve prick gone to another group of protesters set fire to some wood to its side the justice center police say several people started fires threw rocks and launched projectiles with slingshots officers. will leave the reputation of american police taken a major blow over the past month with calls to the fund or despond to force as it's heading to a recent survey of officers find that a staggering 80 percent of officers would not encourage their children to enter a career in law enforcement only 7 percent said they would some of the main

reasons listed for that include a lack of support from bosses but not just that also an overall lack of respect for the profession alan concerns for officer safety something we've been hearing a lot here on the program about however ray lewis is a retired philadelphia police captain who would recommend joining the police why let's take a listen. 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 that 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 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 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 bring you to england where police and revelers of an illegal block party clashed just as the government began lifting some of the coronavirus lockdown restrictions of these 7 officers we believe were injured as authorities attempted to break up the licensing music event in west london on friday night police had to run for it after crowds involving suspected gang members began pelting them with bricks and bottles gatherings in england are still limited to 6 people despite the latest easing up a lockdown on. restaurants reopen. indeed psalms restaurants cinemas and other public places were allowed to open at midnight but bars had to wait until 6 am a few customers took advantage to get a boozy breakfast all the newly reopened businesses must that here too the rules on masks and physical distance see which is reduced from 2 metres to one metre plus

prime minister boris johnson encouraged people to start getting i to support the hospitality industry but to also be curfewed. doctor i'm only succeeded in controlling the virus because everyone worked together. and we will only succeed in reinventing 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 for how to look people really. you know there are certain areas you got to hold. on to communities from as little. if not my concern. on the fact. that decision as to what.

has been done on a subtle or not. go to any thought given to the emergency services to look. things on saturday. what could we not have tried to have a pilot one of the few hours to see how things were reacting whether the already or not doing both of the social distancing majors but looking 2nd has always been on the cards and the recent below it is even but at best estimates we suspect anything between 80 to 90 percent thought 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 not will not but this is normal but you know there's a big risk. when area of spain's catalonia has been part buckle under lockdown after a surgeon coronavirus case says authorities in said grier say the decision to keep

over 200000 people at home just weeks after the nation began easing restrictions was a difficult one. i just as. in the last hours and day we've seen an exponential growth in the number of infections and that's prompted us to take action it's a difficult decision the government must prioritize lives and the health of peoples and we'll take all the necessary measures. council only has been one of the worst affected regions by coverts with more than 12 hours and the area now is being placed back under lockdown so a new case is more than doubled in the possible some 200 police officers are being deployed to help enforce checkpoints locals say the move was expected. to be offended by the fact that i feel this is right because we have too many spikes too many infections and eventually they would have to close off the region and more will come it seems this is necessary because we're seeing what's of kill

says this is a good decision spain has europe's 4th highest death toll from a coronavirus 28000 quarter of a 1000000 confirmed cases the move to reimpose restrictions in council only comes as spain has been reopening its borders and welcoming tourists for the summer holidays baseballers doctor we spoke to believes a selective strategy is needed but worries that tourism may lead to a bigger problem. ensure i believe that given the current circumstances this is the only option going back to a talk with supplies the whole country is not going to go the other issues here is that the e.u. countries have acted on their own since the start of the look now the $27.00 countries have opened. except 2 americans brazil. but there's still the brits used to visit spanish islands with little or no screaming it's very important to even debate the need for a biological passport so to at least require

a virus to 3 days before any trip within europe. let's head around the world are for some news and brief starting in seattle which has seen a hit and run incident involving 2 black lives matter protesters after a driver sped through a freeway closed for demonstrations we must warn you may find the images leading up to the incident this being the vehicle struck down 2 women in the road who flew into the air before landing on the life threatening injuries and the other results were serious condition the car was stopped on the driver taken into custody. at tragedy in me and more at least $162.00 people killed there after a landslide headed jade mine it's all known at this stage how many more missing is a tsunami of mud the workers at the site rescue services were seen transporting victims

out of the flooded pit officials say dozens of people have also been hospitalized japan has a law against severe flooding and 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 are asked to evacuate homes as the heavy storms set in. i don't think it's images of a huge fire are from the us or by johnny capital but it's believed to have started after an explosion or souse a blast went off at a paint factory the cause is yet to be a stop list at least 4 people have been hospitalized the flames engulfed a huge area of around 700 square meters firefighters are still trying to pump it out with hundreds working the scene. still ahead facebook admits letting 3rd party developers improperly access personal data it's not the 1st time

either we picked on what means for users after the break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. now states and other world over. washington ceased to be a city that. tended toward the compromised bike but is a sure national interest people talk about gridlock in congress to hear people talk

about. their rights the radicals in both parties. bipartisan centrist approach to politics most domestic and more. dates that's for sure. you're welcome back to the program nigeria saying it's 2 sculptures it's a belong to the country's igbo community have been auctioned off in part this a countryman tains they were stolen during the 1960 civil war but the auction house christie's insists this 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 but the curator of nigeria's national museum says the work should be repatriated compensation paid he also appealed to other auction houses to stop seals of artifacts suspected of being looted during the war evoking the black lines mother 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 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 of war. these sculptures that i was a particularly interested it were taking it to $6869.00 while there was a civil war going on in one area and b. is west. or regional. and shipped across the border.

where you wrote here. well we didn't for that and pretty much what christie's was. is that it was not european dealers all the objects from the original owners are there they are free to sell them you know other words it's all ok to sell the west by someone out. this is business. a matter. i don't think that i can be in a big group. ok a story that we're closely following today facebook has admitted letting 3rd party developers improperly access users' personal data again the company's repeatedly promised to clean up its both values and continued gathering users' data long after they stopped using them. looks into why the social media giant apparently 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 will come as a surprise to no one that there is once again that been a privacy breach 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 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 fixed 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 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 and 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. 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 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 gets 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 i really messed this one up somehow we missed this point with news feed and 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. ok let's bring it to germany where locked on measures have seen some sex workers art in protest in berlin demanding that a ban on their activities be lifted their. was organized by the sex workers union. association demonstrators were holding signs like open the brothels where the bond was imposed back in march as part of the measures to fight quote a virus pandemic of the rally comes as 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 that's 2 months earlier than the originally planned when the ban was introduced there in mid march though many in

the sex trade struggled as an activist on the prostitution information center in explaining to us. who i can through one thing and. doing. i know. who. are friends like 6 or 8 sex workers to get our arms around us they could have paid our red anymore. for her. to march couldn't pay her rent. for her children anymore. and she didn't see a way out basically and deaths why killers so i think it's. now.

it's such a pity because. she could've been helped by the dutch government but the dutch government still decides through to help them mind multinationals doing stuff and yes lets a sex worker be for what they are or. many within the erotic industry have lost incomes during the covert 19 and although the dutch government did provide financial support many sex workers were not eligible for it foxy angel again tells us how the system worked. if here are only independence contracts are they come a step to therapy or a whole month. then you can get some funding from the fund from the government in during this fire but when you're working from that. up thing instead of stone you go to work places like the brothels the sex clubs and the escorts. r

us i'm going to give you some should you know they were not acknowledged by their governments as being. part of. opting in so yeah those people have to right my me. independence day with a difference next in our to find out how monks and stacy are celebrating in the counties reports and in moments. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll show you what's the reason for any type of enhanced u.s. military presence in this area rush up. what is it suddenly about the south china

sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil. take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have nuclear weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so that's why we're going to drill down on this story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly it's time to do news again. the one guy appear he was a they found literally dead like this. guy appears his girlfriend they were found in their apartment that they just. and they were definitely 3 days holding each other this was so people who have lost their

life shirley today she. this is from a. background 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 was for . in my whole family were drug addicts. throughout much of the 1990 s. and beyond and the doctors were incursion in some cases even sooner vised to overprescribe. i mean that enough to sedate a small country where you should also hear about people all that's their stuff and we got to go to bed and go crazy future but you know when you do it. and they are still coming you know one after the next.

time max kaiser this is the kaiser report this is the 4th of july special that's why stay through looks so great wearing red white and blue red white and blue and 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 economist would say and i say we have our new tradition now of having the lobster or for independence day to celebrate america because u.s. moves to protect you.