nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history the same our heroes. in a speech to mark independence day donald trump takes aim at people who want monuments destroyed as an anti-racism campaign intensifies in the us. deflated and timor lives over calls. 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 the distancing of bars restaurants and salons in england open their doors after months of lockdown.

the police are forced to retreat from violent revellers illegal block party in london. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. all right in the shadow of his presidential predecessors had mount rushmore donald trump took aim at people wanting to tear down mt monuments 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 against the backdrop of weeks of anti-racism protests. and riots

which have seen demonstrators seek to remove or destroy statues they considered 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 so there was a standoff between the national guard and protesters led by native american activists more than 100 watts of the road leading to the event riot police fired smoke shells at their feet and used pepper spray around 15 protesters were arrested as the deadline set for them to leave past of this year has seen mixed emotions. as americans mark in their history and it has led

to new questions over traditional symbols more of that from archies down 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 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 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 deep divide and i think it will take some time to get back to a sense of normalcy and to mend the rip that's been formed. for the 2nd night in 3 days police in portland in the state of oregon declared protests there to be a riot. the latest one saw violence a breakout 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 of 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 the force still needs new recruits. officers that are not encouraging young people to go into law enforcement are those officers who are afraid of accountability. they fear being held to the high standards of the job and so far they've had free reign they've been able to do what they want when they want and now that's and it right there is no respect and there should not be until it's earned ice or of 19 of my years in the belly of the beast in the ghetto socio economically depressed black areas and the historically these people have seen and heard of police

brutality either 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 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. on to england now where police and revelers at an illegal block party clashed just as the government began lifting some of the corona virus

a 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 restaurants cinemas and other public places were also allowed to open at midnight but bars they had to wait until 6 am and a few customers took advantage to get a quote unquote boozy breakfast all of the newly reopened businesses must adhere to the rules on masks and physical distancing 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 very careful. looked on 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 the house a little early term you know there are certain areas you got told us the communities from as little. different my concern is. also on the fact. that decision to open books has been done on a saturday. without 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 ready for opening both of the social distancing measures 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 that it's a big risk. and the area of spain's catalonia has been put back under lockdown after a surgeon chrono virus cases authorities in south korea say that the decision to keep over 200000 people and on 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 in the health of people and will take all the necessary measures. have along here has been one of the worst affected regions that 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 that the move was unexpected. and the perfect i saw 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 seen once 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 and spanish doctor we spoke to believes a selective strategy is in fact needed but worries the tourism boom may lead to a bigger problem. ensure i believe that given the current circumstances this is the only option. that's applies to a whole country is not the way to go the other issues is that the e.u. countries have acted on their own since the start of the look now the 27 countries have opened. except to americans brazilians and russians but there's still a load the brits used to visit spanish islands with little or no screaming 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. let's take a swing around the globe now to look at some other headlines making news this hour

we're going to start in savile in the united states which has seen a hit and run incident involving 2 black lives matter protesters after a driver sped through a freeway closed for demonstrations and a bit of a warning we're going to show you some video that is disturbing not the actual incident itself but leading up to it still to start and the vehicle struck down 2 women in the road who flew into the air before landing on the ground one has life threatening injuries injuries and the other is also in serious condition the car was stopped and the driver taken into custody. at least $166.00 people have been killed after a landslide hit a jade mine in myanmar it is unknown at this stage how many more could still be missing as a tsunami of mud swept over workers at the site rescue services were seen transporting victims out of the flooded officials say dozens of people have also been hospitalized as well. japan is battling against

a severe flooding and mudslides at least 18 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 $75000.00 people were asked to do. evacuated homes as heavy storms set in. these are images of a huge fire from the capital of. john that maku it is a believed to have started after an explosion or a series of blasts went off in a paint factory the cause is yet to be established now the flames engulfed a huge area of around 700 square meters it is reported that the firefighters were able to localize the blaze 6 people were injured during the fire 5 of which were firefighters themselves. still ahead on international facebook admits to letting 3rd party developers improperly access personal data and it is not the 1st

time we break down what this means for users have to short break stay with us.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race based on often scary dramatic development only . exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back this is r t 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 that they were stolen during the 1960 s. civil war but the auction house christie's insists the sale was legit these objects are being lawfully sold having been publicly exhibited and previously sold over the

last decades prior to christie's involvement in the curator of nigeria's that national museum says the works should be repatriated and the compensation paid he also appealed to other auction houses 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 with of 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 clearly interested in where taking elected 69 while there was a civil war going on in nigeria and these were. from the original

on his and shipped across the border. when the european did as well waiting for that and pretty much what christie's was say is that he was not european dealers that told the object from the original owners that data that free to sell them in other words is all paid to sell that was stolen by someone else. this is basically what they're claiming and i think that is wrong and i don't think that that can be sustained in any legal proceeding. facebook has admitted to letting 3rd party developers improperly access users' personal data again the company has repeatedly promised to clean up its act but thousands of absence of continued gathering users' data long after they stopped using the marquis's jacqueline vogel look 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 that 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 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 it 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 about that was all among the cambridge analytical scandal when there was an estimated 50000000 users that had their information that we weren't 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 lee 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 made. 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 we really messed discipline 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 on 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 a 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 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 krona virus pandemic at a rally comes as restrictions on the sex work in neighboring countries are being gradually lifted in the netherlands for instance brothels reopened on july 1st with some restrictions 2 months earlier than originally planned when the ban was introduced there in mid march though many in the sex trade struggled as an activist

at the prostitution information center in amsterdam explained to us. a lot of sex or. who are control thing in. discounting is doing sex but it's also. legal s.s.i. i know from double check sharks who've been from their homes little shack circles who decided to place the gallery 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 fish particular sect or. too much he couldn't pay her rent if you could have profiled for her children any more. she didn't see a way out basically just why she killer so i think this does. 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 the mind multinationals doing stuff and just lets a sex worker be for what they are or. how 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 our friend foxy angel again tells us how the system worked. if there are any independents contracts are in a couple of stats and they are hearing how long. you can get song funding from the fund only governments enduring this fire but when you're working from that with the up thing into a 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 do have the right my me or the desire for me this i'll be back in about 33 minutes with another look at your news stay with us this is our. you cannot be both with the yeah you want.

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