our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history to fame our heroes a race of. speech to mark independence day donald trump takes aim at people who want a monument destroyed as an anti-racism campaign intensifies in the u.s. . slated and to demoralise to overcalls us police struggle with a battered reputation as an overwhelming majority of cops say they would never want their children to become officers. socialising and distancing bars or restaurants. opening their doors after months of lockdown that police are

forced to retreat from revelers at an illegal block party in london. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us right in the shadow of his presidential predecessors at mount rushmore donald trump took aim at people wanting to tear down monuments in an address on the eve of independence day he also decried the rise of quote a far left fascism this year's 4th of july celebrations come against the backdrop of weeks of anti-racism protests and riots which have seen demonstrators seek to remove or destroy statues they consider linked to slavery. 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 deface our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities a few hours before that address there was a standoff between the national guard and protesters led by native american activists more than 100 block of the road leading to the event riot police of fired smoke shells at their feet and used pepper spray around 15 protesters were arrested as the deadline set for them to leave had passed so this year there are likely to be a few mixed emotions as americans mark in their history and it could mean a new questions over more traditional symbols more of that from artie's 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 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 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. 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 adriel park you can see how it's been built allies with red paint on the word 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 you 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 lips 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 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 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 ribs formed. for the 2nd night in 3

days police in portland in the state of oregon declare protests there to be a riot. the latest one the so-called violence break out when a group of protesters set fire to some wood outside the justice center police say several people started fires threw rocks and launched projectiles with sling shots at officers the reputation of american police has been under siege during the past month with calls to defund or disbanded departments it is hitting morale as well a recent survey of officers found that a staggering 80 percent would not encourage their children to enter a career in law enforcement only 7 and a half percent said that they would some of the main reasons listed for that include a lack of support from bosses also an overall lack of respect for the profession and concerns for officer safety however ray lewis

a retired philadelphia police captain says new officers are needed now more than ever you 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 or of 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 never and now what i consider one of the greatest inventions ever is the video cellphone 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. our to england now where police and revelers add an illegal block party class to just as the government began lifting some of the coronavirus lockdown restrictions at least 7 officers were injured as authorities attempted to break up the unlicensed music event in west london on friday night

police had to run for it after crowds including suspected gang members began pelting them with bricks and bottles gatherings in england are still limited to 6 people despite the latest easing of the lockdown that has seen pubs and restaurants reopen and salons at restaurants cinemas and other public places were also allowed to open at midnight but bars had to wait until 6 o'clock am and a few customers took advantage to get a boozy breakfast all of the newly reopened businesses must adhere to the rules on masks and physical distance thing which is reduced from 2 metres to one metre plus prime minister boris johnson encouraged people to start getting out to support the hospitality industry but also to be careful dr i'm only succeeded in controlling the virus because everyone whips to get. 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 the house a little early. you know there are certain areas you got told us the communities from as little. concern. also on the fact. that decision to open. has been done on a saturday. don't any thought given to hold the emergency services to look. things on saturday. 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 majors but looking 2nd has always been on

the cards and the recent below it is that even with the 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 and all of. this is normal but you know there's a risk. an area of spain's catalonia has been put back under lockdown after a surge in coronavirus cases authorities in sagreras say the decision to keep over 200000 people at home just weeks after the nation began easing restrictions was a difficult one. in the last hours in the 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 to have

a one year has been one of the worst affected regions by 19 with more than 12000 dead the area now being placed back under lockdown new cases more than double in the past week some 200 police officers are being deployed to help in force checkpoints locals say the move was expected. i'm offended by the fact that i feel this is right because we have too many spikes too many infractions 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 cases this is a good decision spain has europe's 4th highest death toll from corona virus 28000 and a quarter of a 1000000 confirmed cases the move to reimpose restrictions in catalonia comes as spain has been reopening its borders and welcoming tourists for the summer holidays a spanish doctor we spoke to believes a selective strategy is needed but worries the tourism boom may lead to

a bigger problem. in so i believe that given the current circumstances this is the only option going back to. the suppliers to the whole country is not the way to go the other issues here is that the e.u. countries have acted on their own since the stance of the no the 27 countries have opened. except to americans brazilians and russians but they're still allowed the brits used to visit spanish islands with little or no screening it's very important to either debate the need for a biological passport or to at least require a virus to 3 days before any trip within europe. swing around the world now to look at some headlines making news this hour we start 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 in warning we will not show the incident itself but footage leading up to the vehicle struck down 2 women in the road who flew into

the air before landing on the ground one has life threatening injuries and the other is also in serious condition the car was stopped and the driver taken into custody. at least $162.00 people have been killed after a landslide hit a jaded mine in may and mar it is unknown at this stage how many could be missing as a tsunami of mud swept over workers at the site rescue services were seen transporting victims out of the flooded pit officials say dozens of people have also been hospitalized. the family is battling against severe flooding and mudslides at least 2 people are known to have been killed 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 homes as heavy storms set in. and these images of

a huge fire are from of the azerbaijani capital baku it is believed to have started after an explosion or series of blasts went off at a paint factory because as yet to be established at least 4 people have been hospitalized the flames engulfed a huge area of around 700 square meters firefighters are still trying to put out the blaze with hundreds working at the scene. still ahead on our 2 international facebook admits to letting 3rd party developers improperly access personal data and it is not the 1st time we break down what that means for users after a short break this is actually internet. now states and other world over. luxury goods ceased to be

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i. welcome back this is our team international now nigeria says it is saddened that 2 sculptures it says belong to the country's igbo community have been auctioned off in paris the country maintains 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 exhibited and previously sold over the last decades prior to christie's involvement the curator of nigeria's national museum says the works that should be repatriated and compensation paid he also appealed to other auction houses to stop sales of artifacts suspected of being alluded to during the war evoking the black lives that matter movement a petition to try and stop the christie's auction said that a racial injustice applies not only to the black body but also to black culture and identity the sale went ahead anyway with the 2 wooden figures selling for nearly

a quarter of a $1000000.00 a member of nigeria's national commission for museums told us that there is no doubt that our dealers pocketed trophies of war. these cultures that i was a particularly interested in were taken in may to 6869 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 the european dealers well waiting for them and pretty much what christie's was saying is that he 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 creating and i think that is round i don't

think that that can be sustained in any legal proceeding. facebook has admitted letting that 3rd party developers improperly access users' personal data again the company has repeatedly promised to to clean up its act but thousands of apps are continue to gather and users data long after they stop using them jacqueline vogel looks into why the social media giant apparently is not 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'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 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 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 that 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 it will be told 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 i 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 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. lockdown measures in germany i have seen some sex workers out in protest in berlin demanding that a ban on their activities be lifted the rally was organized by the sex workers

union and brothel operators association demonstrators were holding signs like open the brothels and let us work the ban was imposed back in march as part of the measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic at the rally comes as restrictions on sex work in neighboring countries are being gradually lifted in the netherlands for instance bravo's real on july 1st with some restrictions 2 months earlier than originally planned when the ban was introduced in mid march though many of the sex trade struggled as an activist at the prostitution information center in amsterdam explained to us. a lot of sex or. who are constructing and. discounting is doing sex but it's also. legal s.s.i. i know from level sex marks who've been fixed from their homes low scheck's workers who decided it's too late to get in one of our friends like 6 or 8

sex workers to get our involvement our month because they could have paid our reds any more for it and fish particular sector far. too much she couldn't pay her rent you could have provided for her children any more. yeah and she didn't see a way out basically just why she killer so i think that's just. it's such a pity because. she could've been helped by the dutch government but the dutch government still besides through to help to mind multinationals doing stuff and just lets a sex worker be for what they are. well many within the erotic industry have lost incomes during the covert $1000.00 pandemic 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 there are an independent contractor are they come with stats that they are here and how long. you can get some funding from the fund only governments in during this tired but when you're working from that with the opting into stone you go to work places like the brothels the sex and. the massage are most 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 do have to write my me or that does it for mel b. back about 33 and a half minutes with another look at your news this is our international stay with us.

time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important to excel or a transition to sustainable transport sustainability space for man to be more equitable and sustainable well. they claim their production is completely harmless . lovely. companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something else this must be going to mean and i mean look. this is the mood stimulus and we didn't do nieminen and stunt team then we understood superman and. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist

i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. i'm after it as you were going on the ground as u.k. prime minister boris johnson a lot of pubs to pull pints for the british public while still 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 installs another arguable yes man into the heart of british politics his biography matters 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 of 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 and he praised the author of the peter environ office professor richard stockwell daughters 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 a group of 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 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 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 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.