the american city of portland turns into a war zone as. previous presidents seen through improve their reelection chances. paying for historical damages to cities in america to initiate reparations for minority communities the. question. was going to pay forward are you going to. be out of. dollars come up with people. come up with the same

amount of money feels restored african-americans in this country. wearing masks. is now obligatory in front. of pleaded with the government to bring forward the measure of. i. deployed in israel where the public's frustrated with the government's response to the pandemic as well as a corruption scandal involving the problem. either this is our team to national great to have you with us. we will start this hour in the u.s. city of portland which has seen protesters against police brutality and racial inequality set. the police association building donald trump's accuse local

authorities of failing to contain the unrest or portland's marin turned slum the president's decision to deploy federal agents in the city gets the evidence of the bigger picture surrounding the recent escalation. for 50 nights protests and riots have raged in the city of portland what began as a stand against racism is morphing into something else into wellness the scale version of the civil war except this time it is of the north against the south these top it's the right versus the left.

and for a certain someone currently in the white house had keen to stay there that could play right into his allegedly small hands you see over the past decade american presidents have fancied military jools wars to drum up support for reelection bush with iraq a bomber with libya but trump current caddy he campaigned promising to end foreign wars foreign wars so why not imitate one of whom authoritarian governments not democratic republic send unmocked of thirty's off to protest is these trumped bar tactics designed to eliminate any accountability absolutely unacceptable in america and must stand the senator had a point this is like something out of iraq that again trump did threaten to use the military to stamp out these protests he's already used the national god.

trump has an election to win and trump's campaign plan doesn't seem to involve getting in his knees he will be hot he will be hosh that's what his voters expect and the authorities in portland fear that trump has begun an invasion this is an attack on our democracy president trump has used our city as a staging ground to further his political agenda igniting his base to cause further divisiveness let's be clear this is not political theater this is far more dangerous than not we have federal officers on our streets further escalating

tensions and causing harm to portlanders right now dog trump the president of the south i mean the right has an exact he kept his plans a secret his speech should not rush more than one with military jets flying move ahead that was almost a textbook declaration of war there is a new far left fascism that demands absolute allegiance if you do not speak its language perform its rituals reset its mantras and follow its commandments then you will be censored banished blacklists persecuted and punished it's not going to happen to us. and as with any war you need a main bad guy so saddam's dead gadhafi is gone bin laden's been well killed so what about that other fella what does they do biden you won't be safe joe buds

america joe biden would be nothing more than an autopen president. a trojan horse for a radical agenda. so radical so all encompassing that it would transform this country . into something totally out recognisable it is ironic isn't it that the country that prides itself on being the freest in the world the only country with absolute free speech they tell us all day every day how those same people can't stand free speech when it's coming from someone they don't like both the right and the left are guilty of this there's no new give no understanding no compromise in either of it's either their way or go to hell. the democratic camaro in the us city of providence has promise he will seek to right the wrongs of the past through a reparations process for minority communities the masseurs the process is

a major step forward that will see meetings held over historical contentious issues and a review of laws perceived to discriminate against black and indeed judas communities but not everybody is in favor. while acknowledging that the liberal left agenda has failed black in minority communities in contemporary times by forcing their children to attend failed schools and by enacting policies that make it easy to become dependent on the government it would be an unprecedented and immoral act of government to seek reparations for the horrible wrongs that were committed generations ago oppressions were also approved in the u.s. city of asheville where money will be invested into poor black communities the authorities in both cities say that the initiatives are only the beginning of wider changes. a lot of folks are going to jump straight to the reparations question how much what form for how long who's eligible those are all legitimate questions

but they're questions for another day and they're questions that will be answered through the process it's important to go step by step with this resolution is the 1st year in that it names their list of. the. weighted against the black community and it is there again we discussed the control for 6 surrounding the reparations process with 3 service and she's an author and political analyst and also anthony pryor logan a political and social issues commentator. just kind of the same thing they always do during elections or any other time or some kind of so far no rise to what they've promise is over going to do a study rubin to figure it out i mean how is he not figured out yet slavery ended 865 to say year 2020 what are we really going to study what are we going to try to figure out is trying to calculate i mean you should know about now never has the government ever taken one step towards understanding and calculating and studying

the effects and the impact of slavery on african-american people now it allows people like a.b.l. to come in and make statements oh it's not necessary oh there's no need for this are going to do it right now who's going to pay for our you can pay for a result of your own tax money how about me out of my own tax money because the government only makes money from us when there needed to be a $1200.00 stimulus checks and out no one was saying oh well that comes from the taxpayer that's a refund we should do that now and so why is it that they could find money to come up with to pay $12.00 trillions of dollars to come up with a payment for people who need food when they and they couldn't come up with the same amount of money to restore african-americans in this country who they actually affirmatively took actions to harm that's ridiculous to me so i appreciate you know what who is they who is right now the more there is who is they does need to be more than lip service and right now at l'anse asheville city is doing

a resolution but here's the issue asheville needs to do more than a resolution they need to come up with an actual dollar figure how much they won't black people were harmed by their actual city who knows how much money going to need up because all bob jazzing the former owner of the safe zone like $14000000.00 i mean where is it going to come from the values money was bad enough he's talking about $6.00 to again and the reason why that was given reese's point is because the government say we came out work and we can go out here and make money the actual you know. the mechanism upon which the money will be delivered who do you see is not going to be defined nor will it ever be because all babies every day for the past 100 or so years they say we promise you do this we promise you they with no promises ever deliver you can't provide reparations by definition until you know what you need to repair there needs to be an assessment of what has been done what black people have suffered specifically and so that's why it's not the solution it

needs to be but we end we don't want organizations to keep or communities to start slapping reparations on top of every community redevelopment effort and calling it reparations if it's not if it was going to happen it should have been bathed in 18 states identified as slave master in a slave fair transaction and now it's only 20 it would be me pain it would be rescreened it makes no sense at all. the wording of facemasks is now obligatory in all enclosed public spaces in france mosques were previously only compulsory on public transport and in some shops the new rule came into force today initially it was to be introduced only in august but french doctors that is the government to bring it in earlier starting this monday wearing masks will be mandatory in enclosed places as announced by prime minister john kass takes this includes shops public buildings covered markets banks protective measures and

testing remain essential in tackling the virus effectively our correspondent based in paris explains the pros and cons of the new rule. well what's really interesting is just a few months ago the french government was saying that masks were not essential in the fight against the transmission of that 19 this is at a point when france didn't have mass to go to and they were saying only needed to wear a mask if you were somebody who had been 19 or you were a health care professional and dealing with people but now it's deemed that wearing a mask is in this central tool in the fight against transmission of course france has plenty of masks at the moment but some newspapers have been talking about the cost here of wearing a mask and wearing them every day one calculate the cost for a family of $4.00 individuals who have both the children being over the age of 11 it was saying if you buy masks that you can walk again this would be

a cost of around 96 euros a month but if you decided to wear the single use masks that you discard after every use that would cost a family more like $228.00 euros so quite a lot of money every month to find where those masks however this ruling has been welcomed by many. lately i've been noticing a lot of people coming in without masks i don't want to be rude but the either see outside or they come in and i put their glasses on and then they go away but i don't actually get close at all so for me the mask is very important and it's very good in this if necessary it should be put on what we protect others and we protect ourselves and then there you are it's an effort that we all have to make so we do it. ulick sometimes it has gone back to the weird was before people have kind of forgotten about it we've put in place

a lot of procedures but it's true that on the beach people feel much more at ease than in a restaurant but just like everywhere else not everyone is happy about this new record. lation some people have been complaining that wearing a mask means it's quite difficult to communicate you can't see frankly gestures from people and the reality is that sometimes when somebody's speaking with a mask on they do sound a little bit muffled no public transport here in france it's already been compulsory to wear the mask for many many weeks with the risk of fine already there but despite that despite the fact that there have been security agents going through the metro stations and train stations handing out fines many people have not been wearing a mask on public transport it's a very emotive subject not just here in france but in other countries too but it seems the issue of wearing a mask or not wearing a mask will remain divisive. now a lot down restrictions were 1st imposed many people found themselves stranded in

a country away from home flights and trains were cancelled or must but it didn't stop one determined greek student from finding a route home. i remember i told my dad we were talking about the floods and i was going to get home . and he said as a joke you know and i said you know i've been considering i've been considering coming but by and he said do it and i said no i'm serious if you if you support me and if you help but i'll do it and he says well ok let's look into it.

especially at the start. i was not very optimistic and even though the word time is right i thought you know what this isn't so difficult. most of my pay was filled with stress and with glory and the only thing that i have to hold on to was i'll let me just finish this one day and one more day that's all and then 2 more i can feel i don't care i'm just going to finish this one day and then from there on i see it and day by day i kept doing. that's what that's what kept me going even though i did not say it was going to finish the trip.

even though it was very difficult looking back on it i would 100 percent with it with the knowledge i have and i think it's going to be even more fun. and next time i do it i'll do it with the friends so i can share the whole experience of the trip . people in israel are how the government is handling the pandemic there was clashes and scuffles between police and demonstrators have erupted in jerusalem bringing that story under this after a short break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics. i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

welcome back water cannon were unleashed in the streets of jerusalem at the weekend as police were trying to disperse protests against the government's handling of the pandemic scuffles and clashes were also seen in television station with the current israeli prime minister fears of getting infected. why are. ok so let's take a look at why people are unhappy the protesters condemned the government's handling of the health crisis generally in particular the recent return of destruction of the middle spike in the infection rate they also say the prime minister and his cabinet are failed to manage the economic fallout of this pandemic on top of all

that there is simmering anger over corruption charges against binyamin netanyahu the premier scription trial will resume in january with witness testimonies he's accused of fraud breach of trust and accepting bribes despite the looming trial that netanyahu says that he's focused on ending the covert crisis. we have a common goal to stop the spread of the corona virus by various measures i remind ministers that thursday i have requested each minister's plan for safe exit from the coronavirus restrictions. at least 28 people were arrested as a result of the unrest in jerusalem and tel aviv political analyst michel baruch and former advisor to the president's office jason perlow shared with us their thoughts on the current tensions in israel. there was functioning and everything did seem under control until everything was back we celebrated too soon here and that and you know for all the good work that he did in the 1st wave really wasn't

there the 2nd time around a large group of protesters are protesting that the prime minister is corrupt he's in the midst of a fraud trial and he should resign protesters that really are problematic for those that are out of work those that are from industries which are not picking up the tourism industry the entertainment industry there are people that are just out of work and economically are suffering so he needs to answer those people he's going to have to come out with what are really economic plan that is going to put israel back to a strong economy as we move through different stages both politically because we had a new government sworn in and in terms of the pandemic itself with new numbers emerge there's been a sort of imbalance between those 2 things and there's a genuine feeling on the street that we could be doing things differently and we could be doing things better now we have a working government there's a strong opposition on a strong opposition will voice its checks and balances on the on the prime minister and on his government's policies and that's expressed on the streets as well it's

pretty much part and parcel of the democratic debate around how to handle both the economic sides of the pandemic and the medical side as well. as more than 6 years since war erupted in eastern ukraine and despite a lack of media coverage these days it is still going on. pro-government forces are still fighting rebels in the so plain republics of the guns and yet people are still dying on the battlefield but it's not easy it is done of experience those killed aren't always ukrainian. ukraine army soldier dies in combat is called married grabs a squad of brothers in arms and ventures out on a recovery mission. there if you're a. little. too much and you can only refer to this video would become his last though and he key of rebel forces recovered the

camera from the body of mccall in after his life was ended by a landmine. and unfortunate death unlucky even he wasn't shot in combat he wasn't even a target he simply ran at the wrong time in the wrong direction and too fast in his own demise but well soldiers die it's just the gruesome nature of the ukrainian war zone the fighting between the state army and forces loyal to the self-proclaimed dinette scandal ganske republics has been going on for years yet this death quote the gaze of the united states i want to express you know says deep sadness at the reporter killing us to recreate a military medic who joined the people have you created condemning the ongoing brutal aggression of russia that forces in the us and pay tribute to ukrainians killed and wounded fighting for their democracy well. got it all wrong because

ellen was and is still me and citizen not a ukrainian he was also a mercenary and had a badge reading medic his commander straight out blyde claiming that he and his squad had been dressed in white vests and helmets the footage from ellen's body can clearly shows they were interesting. from regular combatants here's a photo we got from the rebels it's black and white and even to a color blind person the vest of the medic here is not white again this green on green chevron was the only medic designation discovered on the body alongside munition a k a rifle and a heap of grenades and according to a conversation allegedly found in his phone dylan didn't exactly come to ukraine to save lives he listened to me there is a herd of ukrainian pigs which need to be put in the stable they are degenerates

they do need a white master we will bring them to heal and then screw we we've got things to do blacks should be faced down it seems the only white thing about this medic was his racism but there could be more than simple lack of research behind compos condemnation of the killing the us secretary of state could be concerned of american guns for hire also fighting on the frontlines in ukraine in the same unit as the medic here is shown a proud texan an iraq war veteran and squad mate who even used to be presumed dead by the forces until verse video. shown still alive here in surgery 17th. sean fuller from texas syria hard and damien gonzalez from new york justin from florida these are just some photos

discovered on the phone of the stone ian ukraine's front line is apparently guarded by the foreign legion 2.0 and the u.s. state department is known to do more than just track american mercs back in 2011 for instance its reach went so far beyond that it was on the verge of commanding a force made up of the likes of full and. colp so no wonder really illinois death god on washington's raiders so quickly and stirred such concern not because he's a medic but because an american might be next the strategic goal of the us military industrial complex is simply to create trouble for russia they certainly do know in general what's going on quite sure their international connections to the people who are fighting in the. rich world known really fear that is quite possible that people in the deep state in the

us will engineer provocations so the political leadership will then force to take decisions which they perhaps don't really want just don't really want to change and that's not all because in wasn't some stray soldier of fortune and hickey of fighters discovered official ukrainian army papers on him this story and was even eligible for benefits from the ukrainian government as a thank you for his service after all guns aren't hired for free and with american mercs officially enlisted in the ukrainian army the united states might expect some security guarantees from the commander in chief from self president lattimer's lenski now it's not just him and his friends in washington who know about foreign guns doing ukraine's bidding in the war and both kiev and the us would want to keep ukraine's own little foreign legion and become of large. now following the death of

the soldier a local ukrainian prosecutor's office opened an investigation into potential premeditated murder the country's foreign minister has promised the death will not go unnoticed by ukraine's international partners and the u.s. embassy in ukraine has responded by condemning the continuous brutal aggression by russian led forces in the us. and that brings you right up to date thanks stay with us international the very latest news headlines coming your way 30 minutes. you care to be vulgar with yet you know what.

julian associate travels to sweden to deliver a speech while there he met 2 women aged 31 and 26 the wiki leaks founder was soon involved in an intimate relationship with both of them. and the woman who had invited him to speak often to her apartment which is studio so there's only one there's only one bed in attention i'm going to be away you can stay so great. however things changed and the woman came back. and. wanted to lead this native anyway. those women that really approached him it. it seems like especially the younger ones saw him on t.v.

fell into law what they were there to be the 1st in it it looks like someone who wants to be a rock n roll groupie nothing approaching a man really chasing him down and finally she also succeeds in the end they share a one eyed stare which at some point becomes a ball to. it was only after learning that a song should slept with both of them at the women decided to go to the police that proved to turning point both for wiki leaks and for julian assange it was when this story took a very different. women went to the police. one's there to report a rape they report they wanted to encourage him to have an h.r. vito's because they have had sex with him unprotected and were concerned about.