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retreat from violent. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is an international. shadow of his presidential predecessors at mount rushmore donald trump took aim at people wanting to tear down monuments in the 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 a 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 'd 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 be 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 this year has seen mixed emotions as americans mark their history and it has led to new questions over traditional symbols more of that from artie's done 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 and different types of symbols that might need to be removed but if we leave it up to the looks of 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 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 rips that's been formed. for the 2nd night in 3

days police in portland in the state of oregon declared protest there to be a riot. the latest one so violent to break out when a group of protesters set fire to some wood outside the justice center police say several people started fires through rocks and launched projectiles with sling shots at officers 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 police 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 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 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. 2 england did now where police and revelers at an illegal block party clashed 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 just 6 people despite the latest easing of the lockdown that has seen pubs and restaurants reopen. so long as restaurants cinemas and other public places were allowed to open at midnight but bars they had to wait until 6 o'clock in the morning and a few customers took advantage of that to get well let's just call it a boozy breakfast all of the newly reopened businesses must adhere to the rules on masks and physical distancing though 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. looked on 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 the house a little early. 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 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'll go back to all of. this is normal but you know that it's. 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 while one 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. how long he has been one of the worst

affected regions by covert 19 with more than 12000 dead the area now being placed back under lockdown saw a new cases more than double in the past week 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 seen once of killed this is a good decision spain has europe's 4th highest death toll from the coronavirus 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 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 supplies the whole country is not going to go the other issues is that the e.u. countries are. since the stance of. the 27 countries. except 2 americans brazil. but they're still. visit spanish islands with little or no screaming it's very important to the need for a biological passport. require a virus to 3 days before any trip within you're. going around the world now for some news making headlines this hour starting in the united states in the city of 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 now bit of a warning we're going to show you some footage not the incident itself but it's

still disturbing leading up to it 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 $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 it be missing as a tsunami of mud swept over workers at the site rescue services were seen transporting victims out of the flooded period officials say dozens of people have also been hospitalized. 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 as well while around 75000 people were asked to evacuate homes as heavy storms set in. and check out these images of

a huge fire from the azerbaijani capitol but cool it is a believed to have started after an explosion or a series of blasts that went off at a paint factory the cause is yet to be established 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 them were actually firefighters themselves. still ahead on our team 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 r t international stay with. americans to start growing it propitious rates because america empire right because it's easy

for the top 2 feet everything and everyone else in america will be better off if it was not an empire so the collapse of the us dollar will be painful for a period of time but what comes on the other side will be i think a lot more amenable to. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. thinks . we dare to ask.

welcome back this is our to international live from moscow now nigeria says it is saddened that 2 sculptures it says belong to the country's it bo community have been auctioned off in paris the country maintains that they were stolen during the 1960 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 because you're a tour of nigeria's national museum says the works should be repatriated and 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 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 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 a chair and these were stolen. from down or original oil as. well waiting for there and pretty much what christie's was saying is that it was not european dealers going to do all the objects from the original owners or they are free to sell them you know their words it's ok to sell the west to

a little by someone else. this is basically what they're creating and i think that is rome and i don't think that that can be sourced in any legal proceeding. facebook has admitted into letting 3rd party developers improperly access users personal data again the company has repeatedly promised to clean up its act but thousands of apps have continued gathering users' data long after they stopped 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 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 at 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 word 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 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 you. 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 and what is not a question of 3rd party advertisers or developers then it's an issue of features that the company itself made and has to apologize for we 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 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 pull the charts 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 coronavirus pandemic now the rally comes as restrictions on 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 a very in mid march though many of the sex trade struggled as an activist added the prostitution information center in extra dam explained to us. a lot of the secular who i can throw a thing in. just come to you doing sex but it's also. illegal at the time i i know. from their homes little sex workers who decided. to gather in one apartment

like 6 or 8 sex workers together in armen because they could have paid to read anymore particular for. its books through 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 the killer so i think it's so. you know it's such a pity because. she could've been helped by the government but the government still decides through to help to mine multinationals doing stuff and yes let's have sex before what they are. many within the erotic industry have lost incomes during the coven 1000 pandemic although the dutch government did provide financial support many sex workers were not eligible for it foxy angela friend again went on

to tell us how the system worked. if there are any independence contracts are they coming that's a fair hearing well let's. get some funding from the fund only governments enduring this tired but when you're working from the waist up thing instead of stone you go to work places like the brothels the sex and the escorts your. arms i'm going to give you some should you know they were not. by their governments as being. part of. so yeah those people have to right my me are that does it for me right here in archie international but stay with us throughout the day as we will bring you a recap of the week's top stories with our weekly program that will be throughout sunday right here on our national stay with us.

we go to work so straight home. time after time called her ration to repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important to accelerate the transition to sustainable transport sustainability stay in her manner in more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely harmless. and libby

got it done because. it builds on the companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is again all this must be going to mean and i'm a new mother skip the sun moves and news new me didn't even i'm strengthened them to be based on that understood look to the solution. to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race who is on offense very dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of god i'm timed to sit down and talk. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person or those great. no

dairy. queen. lime afshin rattansi we're going underground as u.k. prime minister boris johnson allows 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 boggart fathers' favorite t.v.

show yes minister still writing the rulebook about the british civil service from coronavirus to the economy we speak to the co-creator of yes minister is the home free app will be one of them lynn about whether politicians have given up speaking truth to power in the week of the mia putin's fundamental constitutional referendum victory across a 65 percent plus turnout in the russian federation is russia really a democracy at all we speak you know and he praised author of the peach environ or professor richard stockwell all this is all coming up in today's going underground of 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 humor.