when so many find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground. for. the american city of portland turns into a war zone as donald trump sends in federal agents to quash the unrest we look at how his tactics as he sees my previous presence i see 3 reelection chances for certain. damages to cities in the us to michigan reparations for minority communities a move that is being questioned on something. was going to pay for our yugo people residing. me out of my own tax money be trillions of dollars to come up with a payment people who need it and they couldn't come up with the same amount of

money to restore african americans in this country. where a massive indoor venue is now a pretty good stream from. the government to bring forward the measure amid a spike in corona virus cases in some regions. and water cannon deployed in israel where the public is for straight up with the government's response to the pandemic as well as a corruption scandal involving the prime minister. hello there you watching r.t. international this monday afternoon she's gone to a cult in moscow now we'll begin in the u.s. city of portland which has seen protesters against police brutality and racial inequality set fire to the police association building trumps accuse local

authorities of failing to contain the armrest while poland's mayor and to islam the president's decision to deploy federal agents to the city. has been looking at the bigger picture surrounding the recent escalation. for 15 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 their 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 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 wealth or tarion governments not democratic republic send unmocked of thirty's after protesters 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 several officers on our streets further escalating

tensions and causing harm to portlanders right now trump the president of the so i mean the right has it exactly 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 untrue. 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 them it's either their way or go to hell or more aggressive than our democratic mayor in the us city of providence has promised that he will seek to right the wrongs of the

past through a reparations process or one or 3 communities the mayor says the process is a major step forward and it will see meetings held over historically contentious issues and a review of laws perceived to discriminate against black and indigenous communities although 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 frail schools and by enacting policies that make it easy to become dependent on the government it would be a nun precedented and immoral act of government to seek reparations he for the horrible wrongs that were committed generations ago or reparations were also approved in the u.s. city bash feel where money will be invested into poor black communities the thirty's in both cities do you say that the initiatives that just the beginning of why the 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 there are questions that will be answered through the process it's important to go step by step with this resolution is the earth in that it names that their list of historic. weighted against the black community into this very day we discuss the controversy surrounding the reparations process with 37 in the north and political analyst and also with anthony bryan logan he's a political and social issues commentator. just kind of the same thing they always do during an election or any other time or some kind of so far no rise to what give promise is over going to do a study were going to figure it out i mean how are we not figured out yet slavery ended 865 percent a year 2020 what are we really going to study what are really 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 out 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 it are you go pay for a reason to 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 in doubt 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 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 why who is they do is right now the more there is who is

a 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 of how much they won't black people were harmed by their actual city who knows how much money than any of the guys are bob johnson the former owner of the t.s.a. some like 14 trillion dollars i mean where is it going to come from the value is money was bad enough it's often about $6.00 trillion and the reason why that was given to reese's point is because the government say that we came out work and we can go out here and make money the actual you know. mechanism upon which the money will be delivered and who do see is not going to be defined nor will it ever be because all babies every day in $40.00 pairs honey or so years they say we promise you do this we promise you day 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 and then if i had a slave master in a slave fair transaction and now 2020 it would be me pay me it would be repaying it makes no sense that oh. now in france the wearing of face masks has become a bigotry in all enclosed public spaces where 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 although french doctors did urged the government to bring it in. starting this monday wearing masks will be mandatory in enclosed places as announced by prime minister john kass ticks this includes shops public

buildings covered markets banks protective measures and testing remain essential in tackling the virus effectively a correspondent in paris charlotte bins 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 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 are 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 $96.00 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 stay 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 and this is if necessary it should be put on we protect others and we protect ourselves and then there you are it's enough for that we all have to make so we do it. felix 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 friendly gestures from people and the reality is that sometimes when somebody's speaking with a mask on they do sound a little bit muffled now public transport here in france it's already been compulsory to wear the mask for many many weeks with the risk of fine already that 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 defiant. meanwhile people in this well are angry at how the

government there was handling the pandemic this classism scuffles between police and demonstrators around jerusalem we'll have the details in a couple of. us. with yeah like. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person or those with.

dares thinks. we dare to ask. it. was all over again our water cannon were unleashed in the streets of jerusalem over the weekend as police there to try to disperse protesters against the government's handling of the pandemic scuffles in clashes were also seen in tel aviv to frustration but the contrary prime minister trump phase of getting infected.

was. ok well let's have a quick look then it's why people there are so unhappy the protesters do condemn the government's handling of the health crisis generally and in particular the recent return of restrictions and made a spike in the infection right they also say to the prime minister and his cabinet a failed to manage the economic fallout of the pandemic and then on top of all of that there is simmering anger over corruption charges against benjamin netanyahu now the premier's corruption trial will resume in january with witness testimonies he's accused of fraud breach of trust and also accepting bribes spite that looming

trial though netanyahu does say that he's focused on ending the crisis while we have a common goal to stop the spread of the coronavirus by various measures i remind ministers that by thursday i have requested each man. astri's plan for a safe exit from the coronavirus restrictions well at least 28 people were arrested as a result of the unrest in jerusalem and tel aviv political analyst michel barak and former advisor to the president's office jason perlow and shared their thoughts on the current tensions. there was functioning and everything did seem under control until everything was back we celebrated too soon here and that's when 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 real economic plan that is going to put israel back to a shong 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. now it has been more than 6 years since war erupted in the ukraine and despite

a lack of media coverage these days it is still ongoing pro-government forces the still fighting rebels in the self-proclaimed republics of against and yet can pay people still dying on the battlefield but as you go she donna is now explains those killed on ukraine. a ukraine army soldier dies in combat is called married grabs a squad of brothers in arms and ventures out on a recovery mission but in a firmer ground. there if you're a. little. too much 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 republics has been going on for years yet this death caught the gaze of the united states i want to express you know 60 of sadness at the reporter killing yes to every korean military medic who joined the people of you created condemning the ongoing brutal aggression of russia the forces in the us and pay tribute to ukrainians killed and wounded fighting for their democracy well pump a you 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 indistinguishable 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. and 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 there 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 full out 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 fuller and co so no wonder really illinois death got on washington's raiders so quickly and stirred such concern not because he's a medic but because an american might be next to a cheetah. the goal of the u.s. military industrial complex is simply to create trouble for russia they certainly do know in general what's going on i'm quite sure there are international connections to the people who are fighting in the ukraine and which well known really clear that so it's 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 vladimir the landscape 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 u.s. would want to keep ukraine's own little foreign legion and become of large following the death of. a local ukrainian prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into potential premeditated murder the country's foreign minister has promised that the death will not go unnoticed by ukraine's national partners and us embassy in ukraine has responded to you by condemning the continuous brutal aggression by russian led forces in the donbass so that brings up to date that's

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so lou and welcome across the uk where all things are considered computers of else one of the greatest if not the greatest church in the history of christianity will soon be converted into a mosque what is the importance of the. obvious of shia and for whom and europe's energy security is not independence thanks in the balance. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest like these and in oslo he's an associate professor at the university of southeastern norway as well as author of russia's geo economic strategy for greater eurasia and in london we're joined by alexander me curacy is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right

gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciated ok let's go to glenn 1st there we have president erewhon of turkey announcing that one of the most important if not the most important church in the history of christianity will be converted into what's going on here what is the importance of that church to. the political ambitions of say of the president of turkey what does it mean to christians all around the world in 2020 now go ahead paul. well it's one of the key religious buildings and christianity so but he did it or how did history and christianity but also for the muslims again it was it built into 6 centuries it was a cathedral and this lasted for almost a 1000 years. in eastern christianity's or for the orthodox christians until the amounts conquered. because of the nobility in 4053 and the

convert it into a mosque now under other turkey in the early 20th century they made it into a you see it was part of that secular sation to make it into well as i should put it positioning it urges a secular state and also along with and or sister to be a good bridge between the east and west so imitating some of history but also being more european so again i can understand why turkish muslims then would like to we will not care for the fact that our most cus been clear to me see him for almost a century and it would like kept returned to a place of worship however they shouldn't also recognize that for christians to have similar concerns a serious affair was not billed as a most ill that's like a federal. and this kind of this is the national sovereignty of course of turkey to decide what it should do and how everything indicates what kind of country turkey will be obvious.