and. in the headlines this morning a london police officer is suspended after a video emerges of him and kneeling on a handcuffed black man's neck stoking a nationwide debate on the use of chokeholds. but. also this protest in jerusalem is pressure mounts on the prime minister over the handling of the corona virus outbreak and his corruption battle. despite the u.s. having the most coronavirus cases in 2 days of record breaking new infections this week alone donald trump pushes ahead with getting students back in class within weeks igniting a route with an over schooling safety. every other country has or kids and schools

except united states kids are spreading the disease. virus this. year are really. good morning live from washington nationals world news h.q. of moscow this saturday the 18th of july is kevin owen here to take you through those headlines that you just heard in more detail and 1st that there's anger in the u.k. after a video emerged of a london police officer kneeling on a handcuffed black man's neck during an arrest the office is now suspended but the video has been shared widely online. but you have been here before you for what you do there is no i mean if you. go back you up. front on us do you know you well according to london's metropolitan police the man in the video was

suspected of being armed and having been involved in a fight as the officers struggled with the suspect on the ground a crowd of onlookers gathered and filmed what was going on the instance since being referred to the police watchdog and the independent office for police conduct that it's regulated to the over appropriate policing in britain. i'm deeply concerned about today's incident and it is right that met police u.k. have referred the case of the independent police watchdog black london to still face discrimination and we must work with the community to build trust in the police video footage that i have seen today in the circulating in social media is extremely disturbing some of the techniques used cause me great concern they're not taught in police training. in light of what's happened so recently let's talk to chris phillips he's the former head of the british national counterterrorism security office a chris thanks been up bright and early with us this morning pre-show ated video from london do you think that arrest technique used by the officers say especially

in light of what's happened over the last few months is in any way shape or form justified. just avoid is a interesting word i think what you have to do is go back to this and think this is a man that was fighting he was arrested for a fright and also for have been a large knife now one of the police officers goes to do they have to control someone and sometimes in a violent situation and arrested george and you do get in the wrong position though you do get in a position where you have to try and maintain protection of them someone's head whether the spitting or otherwise we haven't seen the full video what we've seen is an excerpt from a video which shows an officer trying to detain a man i think people of rushing to judgment i mean the man was shouting for goodness sake so it clearly wasn't been strange yeah i was going to ask you this moment the next thing being a policeman you're facing something like this guys maybe got a knife got a gun whatever is it is it and everyone's filming this these days of course they got mobile phones it's been it's just prevalent everywhere it's a tough job being

a policeman i suppose i point to you because on one hand you've got a trait trying to stay safe for yourself and for the person you're trying to apprehend on the other hand is it inevitable that mistakes may happen but can you call a mistake somebody's kneeling on someone's neck for 345 when it 1st not a mistake is it but no it's not true for 5 minutes if you look at the footage i've seen it's for a matter of seconds and don't forget this officer now and i'm 40 the way life has gone on it's been surrounded by other people who are not helping the police officers but actually trying to hinder them and video and every everything that's going on of course the officers will have only one cameras this is going to be a better view of the actual rather than a snippet of a piece of video this taken after the suspect has been struggling against no one saying for a minute the majority of police officers don't do their job safely adequately except for a. tough job being

a policeman i suppose these days because you can be constantly worried about crossing the line you know or mistakenly crossing the line. oh yes absolutely but also getting stabbed i mean it's it's a vice that stabbings have risen hugely in london over the last few years and those stabbings are committed by young men and not quite often young black men and and so when young men arrested and particularly a man is arrested with a knife then of course the officers have got their own safety and the public safety at the 1st part of their you know the person 1st rather job is to make sure that everyone is safe. trying to detain a man and holding him down is a very difficult thing it's it's not a precise it's not all war you know kung fu people it's a struggle and you always end up at the wrong place trying to hold someone down trying to stop them stabbing you or spitting out you comparing i would not compare

for a woman it were the george floyd case and what you see in there but i guess it has changed the public's view some of the public's view about policing and what are they expect to be police think spec to be kept safe but equally there are some skepticism involved as well yeah people want to be kept safe but they don't like policing if you want to stop people from carrying knives and we have to we have to go for the people that 'd actually are carrying not this man. looks like was carrying a knife and that's been arrested and yet the public immediately go on the offense it's always a police officer trying to do their job talks about chokeholds is this is a standard procedure where things come from within the normal thing for in policing to apprehend someone. absolutely not and resources don't train but i've never trained for that mother nor anyone that has but having said that if someone's joined us brits you you know the brits have had difficult to gain straight holt's street hoods to stop people from spreading are you so so what do we want to police officer to do we want them to stay safe themselves they we want them to arrest

suspects violent people and also we want them to do so without setting the people watching it's a crazy world and we're just creates an iraq for and if we don't support that chris phillips they go on with it a christian is former head of the british national counterterrorism security office thank you thank you. the mayor of new york's reportedly requested extra security to protect lives matter slogan painted on to one of manhattan's wealthiest street the mirror has been vandalized twice this week 2 people been arrested but bill de blasio is getting pressure over his policing priorities with stretched forces tackling a surge in crime right now just heard that new york city mayor has won an 8 securing the black mind smatter mural a trump tower that's one sergeant and 8 cops 3 to the day violence shooting some murders up in new york city in this clown has 3 sergeants and 24 cords guarding

a mural if true sickening giant yellow letter spelling of lives matter appeared outside trump tower on 5th avenue just over a week ago made blood here himself helped out with the painting donald trump though responded by calling it a symbol of hate and accusing the mayor of disrespecting his own police department . that his move came off the slogan was told in red paint before being cleaned up and restored and although the man may want more help looking after it just a few weeks ago he agreed to cut the police budget by a $1000000000.00 let's remember even though offices are also struggling against rapidly rising crime as mentioned we talk to terry gibson who's running for governor of new york he told us he's spoken with the police who told him that the mayor's got one priority thing. does made up about 4 to a 1st shift to babysit the direct use of a police officer there were no. yeah this sort of somewhat the rebels see polies task. there from europe to say that is what the mayor you still want to do to

protect. our state by not doing that spending is. in the streets paying but like mad on the street and also rename the streets but white metal it's own absolutely nothing for white america. that might it would have been better spent on novel by homeless population if for say you you want in the 5 minutes. should have . said at the currently show both the show and the plots. fearful for your wife's side in new york city because you have met a lot on. liberty for proving to be short lived much of israel businesses are being closed and gatherings restricted after a new coronavirus case is that the public is getting increasingly frustrated too with protests against the government's handling of the pandemic and the prime

minister who is already up against it over corruption charges paula slayer of middle east correspondent some of those protest is. listen listen listen listen listen. listen listen listen. listen listen listen. listen listen listen also the way he's still the. madness my business is still very doesn't really believe the terrorists they see. on a plane. but it makes his colors.

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it's also forbidden the people to gather in large numbers and have funny clothes and then. after we. leave the quarantine it's too fast or. of course all of these i think it's ok about. bars the clubs. and the place. a lot of the ocean people and here i think it's wrong for the gym this restaurant is one of thousands forced to keep diners away it shut its doors while the one next door is still functioning but only for takeaways the business taking away and deliveries it's not the same value it says something about 15 percent we need the money. to do things to bring us the money as netanyahu is ratings plummet in the opposite direction to the infection rate the embattled prime minister has pledged

a $1.00 and $3.00 quarter $1000000000.00 aid package but many of those who've lost their livelihoods say they've yet to see some of this money a scandal make a dent every few tastes in between jobless families cannot put food on the table government pledges especially when their government is barely keeping yourself together barely mean much least of all that it is likely to survive long term. r.t. to most of them. united states a shot has its own daily record for new coronavirus cases for the 1st time lucky more than $77000.00 in a single day figures have been declining last month but that's not changing with a fresh exhilaration it's impacting donald trump support 2 more on it from caleb maupin. if you listen to donald trump he says that america is a ok as the country gets back to life and continues opening up i want everyone to know when every citizen know that we're using the full power of the federal

government to fight the china virus and to keep our people safe we got hit with this terrible plague from china and now we're getting close to fighting our way out of it we're on the way to a tremendous victory it's going to happen and it's going to happen big our country will be greater good ever before thank you no administration in history has removed more red tape more quickly to rescue the economy and to protect the health of our people now at this point 39 us states are seeing a rise in cases furthermore according to the associated press 75 percent of the cases in the united states are in states that voted for donald trump during the 2016 elections now in arizona and texas we've seen refrigerated trucks that may soon be used as a temporary morgue for the rising deaths i am pleading with everybody in our neck

of the woods help us do your part people's lives are at stake not just the people getting sick but doctors nurses working to the bone the mass personnel transporting people now the state of florida is the worst hit and that is a state that donald trump needs to win if he's going to be the taurus in the 2020 elections drops approval rating seems to be declining as americans are upset with how he is handling the obit 19 situation disappointed in the administration's response now 64 percent of americans actually said in a recent poll they distrust donald trump when it comes to his handling of the coronavirus situation and we've even heard one republican governor speaking up pretty loudly i had watched as the president downplayed the outbreak severity and as the white house failed to use shoe public warnings. drop a 50 state strategy or dispatch medical gear or lifesaving ventilators from the nation's stockpile to american hospitals there's been a big failure on a governmental level to provide social safety supports to deal with the

economically speaking of course you know i think ultimately it's best to have lockdowns which is a silty social distancing we still don't even have universal health care and we were stooge 11 time stimulus check but a lot of people still yet to receive. this in the context of reopening in a lot of the key cities and states that are experiencing surges in contrast we're seeing you know at the various one of our stimulus bills they're bailing out you know industries from airlines cruises i also often think you are our bloated military budget that's almost a trillion dollars annually and it's just very unfortunate that it just seems again to be a complete misallocation of resources and support. the white house has blocked the u.s. center for disease control and prevention from testifying to congress on schools reopening the trump administration's pushing ahead with getting students back to

classrooms by the autumn despite warnings from teachers and rival democratic politicians. when he says open he means opening for kids being able to attend each and every day at their school i decided should not stand in the way of various past the country nks step people are reporting to us about the anxiety they have about their children the decision to whether as to whether to send their children to school for me i think one of the core principles is your parents need to have the ability to opt for the type of learning that they think's important so over here it is who are you. sure you are to your kids go through just like this will take your kids. to the worst well present troubles made reopening schools one of his top priorities in recent months sees threatening to withhold federal funding from schools indeed that refused to cooperate tromso also criticized the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention is guidelines now or getting pupils back

to class he calls them too tough and too expensive we've been discussing the balance that's needed between schooling and safety. well it's premature not to follow science you know we've been told all along follow the silent science follow the science well the science is worldwide every other country has her kids and schools except the united states kids are spreading the disease they can safely go to school people are scared i mean the virus is skyrocketing like all over the country and i think the teachers here are really really worried that they're putting themselves. in tremendous risk. children know the disease teachers maybe as they are else and i was there is not this national plan it's actually a virus people lives here and rightfully so the united states is not founded on one size fits all big government telling everybody what to do he's setting those

guidelines those standards if you will but he's not make them for making them federal mandates so words mean things when she says she wants a federal plan i guess she wants the federal to have a one size fits all mandate from the federal government and that's just not how we do it in the united states the virus is iraq coming out of control and people are dying so obviously the president is front and true that there. really got to get out there were a lot of people are dying a virus here they did not know that this is the blue collar president he's put a premium on the blue collar the working class he wants all those poor kids like my special needs son to have a chance to not fall farther behind he wants parents to have their kids back in school so they don't have the burden of daycare or hiring tutors to take care of them and they can go to work again the idea that this disease shut down is silly i

mean right now the new york city is talking about a kind of land where a where you would have cancelled a school for 2 days. 3 days what i am learning it is less safe in the fires under control of course speaking out so either or but it has to. be you know really exaggerate and so is saying i think you know me. this is not international 20 past the hour good morning coming up the sensible spacing of the e.u. leaders 1st face to face summit since february but they're also part 2 of what to do with the next a 7 year blockbuster budget because the would blow it all apart it means that this time it's on the more pressure than i have over across it when we're about.

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good morning the european union is holding its 1st a physical summit says february the 27 nations are hoping to approve a huge recovery plan and also strike a compromise on the block's massive 7 year budget for europe correspondent peter all of it then has more on the elbow bumps in less than straightforward negotiations. it's almost back to normal isn't it back in the room in brussels leaders of the meeting for faced meeting face to face for the 1st time since coronavirus put an end to that and they had to take part in these well at times internal online video conferences musk's social distancing and elbow bumps replacing the handshake of the order of the day just about everybody

said it hearing to the new rules of social distancing and masks except for those bad boys of social distancing the visit guard for the group made up of poland slovakia czech republic and hungary who twitter feeds have all been awash with photos of masculist handshakes yeah they don't play by anybody's rules there is some business to be taken care of though that's why they're in brussels for this meeting a budget for the next 7 years and a much needed coronavirus stimulus package have to be agreed on angela merkel is in charge pretty much of this meeting but the german chancellor didn't seem filled with confidence heading in to the summit in brussels for. our last meeting in february was not successful we are all entering this negotiations in good spirits but i have to say the difference as still very big therefore i can see just yet

whether we will come to an agreement this to an expected very very difficult negotiations charles michel the european council president has cooked 26000000000 euro from the budget he 1st put forward back in may we're still looking it will point 86 trillion that is being asked for that includes the 7 year budget and a whipping of hundreds of millions for corona recovery their opposition as you would imagine when it comes to numbers like this the frugal for they being called austria sweden denmark and. the netherlands making up the frugal 4 they say they'll only agree to these packages if they have the say on how countries spend that money given not a chance say those who will need the most of that money we're talking about france italy spain and greece here they say that would infringe upon their sovereignty the meeting started with the european parliament president david saw early warning that

if an agreement isn't found there's going to be dire consequences for the whole block crystal i mean to go in at the moment the heads of government have a huge responsibility we cannot allow ourselves to feel to reach an agreement and the council any sort of postponement could certainly provoke new storms and put the whole of europe in a difficult situation the summit can continue over the weekend i have a feeling though and so to many watching this may continue for a while yet before they find an agreement. the u.s. surveillance drone program for the afghan army to the tune of almost $200000000.00 has been ineffective and fall of far short of expectations so says american watchdogs report the u.s. department of defense lacks information necessary to track understand and improve the return on its 174000000 investment in the program and is poorly positioned to transfer responsibilities to the afghanistan national army. so that program was

launched 5 years ago to provide the afghan army with surveillance drones and trained personnel to make it more self-sufficient but the report points to several shortcomings including a lack of oversight and concern that some of the equipment may have gone missing on top of that it says afghan soldiers aren't getting adequate training hampering their ability then to use the information gathered by the drones the u.s. army though thinks afghan forces now only need minimal assistance the program was launched in anticipation of american troops leaving the country peace deal was struck in february between washington and the taliban setting a 14 month deadline for the u.s. military to leave and then last month the number of personnel stationed in afghanistan was reduced to less than $9000.00 former u.s. marine intelligence officer scott ritter told us the program's but a massive drain on american taxpayers. we know that the american military experience net afghanistan has been claygate with oversight issues no matter what even if the afghan military was able to absorb technology in question the oversight

of this has been initiation has led to corruption led to abuse and led to billions of dollars in no waste and fraud most americans don't know what a scam it is they don't know what a scan eagle does when we talk about the price of this program it is nothing in comparison to the hundreds of billions of dollars that we've wasted in afghanistan over the past 20 years and if it doesn't register on the domestic political radar it's not an issue the american military in afghanistan will claim that they will be able to overcome this problem but they will be able to correct the deficiencies and they were able to successfully integrate the scan eagle into afghan operation this is all wrong it's perhaps a lie knowing a lot but it doesn't matter because if the american people are not energized by this news it nothing's going to happen in terms of repercussions.

for the fast food chain burger king's fate of hate for farmers of a rather bizarre of blaming cow flatulence for climate change it's a pressure campaign to try to get famous to change how they feed their hoods to so we say reduce emissions.

it's not the cal fox nearly all in terry kmiec thing from catalyst from belching suggesting otherwise turns a serious climate topic into a joke reducing me thing is a huge opportunity that should be a goal but we shouldn't trivialize it for trendy marketing. we told about it some more with 2 farmers who say it's a noble effort but a little misguided. if there's an attempt a genuine attempt to reduce the methane emissions from cows this is a good thing the big food brands need to demonstrate that they are addressing the iran mental concerns principle amongst which is climate change but rather than

simple blanket solutions like just switching away from livestock products and eating meat to products based diets we need to think more carefully and we need to be able to differentiate between the animals which are part of the solution and those which are part of the problem they need to do some work more work and have a conversation with the people who are leading the trail on the transition towards more 'd sustainable food systems see what more they can do their research is a good idea you know the fact that they're trying to reduce methane and everything is very admirable but not marketing messaging basically in our opinion of agriculture just made us look like robots or you know rednecks and hicks that are destroying and putting the planet where harassment. the research right now is coming our next hour so are you trying to be shepherding tons upon tons of london grass cattle because it seems.