he shouts and you know. if. the u.s. sees its biggest black lives matter rallies in weeks we heard from a reporter who got caught up in the police crackdown and. figured closer closer to say hey i think peaceful by backing up that the police officer from seattle showed them where to start filming him and they pepper sprayed me directly. and in the stories that shaped the week you can use opposition labor party pushes for artie's broadcast license to be revoked after a report on alleged russian influence and we got reactions from londoners. we only shot on the moon. because it's just more subtle more destruction which really go it alone i just think it did so why should they need to see it. also this hour at

several eview country see a spike in the morning virus cases just weeks after reopening their doors tourists . and israel is gripped by public outrage over the prime minister's handling of the pandemic a mis corruption allegation. welcome to the weekly here on r t international where we bring you the latest headline news on the top stories from the past week. a wave of street unrest grips a major american cities on saturday people rallied in cities including seattle portland and chicago among others.

and an identified device exploded next to the seattle police department's east precinct tearing a hole in the side of the building

a total of $21.00 officers were injured during clashes throughout the saturday. in the town of. pepper spray to force the crowd back and some more seen beating activists with sticks one reporter film the moment he was pepper sprayed. that's right going to break sold. in a day so i'm. going to start showing. the trade i just got should explain about. we spoke with joel wiser the independent journalist who just saw being pepper sprayed as well as to max conjured by a seattle resident about the protests and city. we get to a point where the police vents on the protesters they get closer and closer to me and i'm saying. peaceful backing up you can see

a police officer from seattle show backward into a crowd of people and then i obviously i turned myself around and tried to get. start filming him pepper sprayed me directly and i know at that point i cannot breathe and i cannot see your helicopter flying a little. in the middle of the protests. just. the police. earlier this week more than a dozen u.s. mayors most of them democrats alarm over the federal crackdown president trump refused to back down saying more troops would be sent to u.s. cities i think in their own way they want us to go and they'll be a time when they're going to want us to go in full blast but right now we're sending extra people to help not happening in chicago we don't need federal troops

when i spoke with the director of the department of homeland security last week i told him to go home and to take his federal troops with him we are not going to hesitate to take the president to court and stop any unconstitutional actions meanwhile the cales has hit retailers and portland hard several stores have been vandalized and looted over the past 2 months one of the targets was a jewelry store that's been operating for 30 years there and may looters broke into the process and stole numerous items the owner no i told us clients are afraid to go downtown. and not only ones many businesses in downtown portland are hurt it's not the portland we know it's not the city that we've been doing business in for over 30 years it's just boarded up streets. you know lot of graffiti just destruction everywhere and we're very disappointed with the studio officials don't consider what they're doing is due to ship when you feel businesses like that

when your city looks like a war zone and failed leadership and we're very disappointed we're very angry and at this time we just don't know what the future of downtown portland will look like when you allow lawlessness when you allow looting and when you don't hold people accountable this stuff is going to continue and if their leadership failed the businesses the residents of downtown portland big time and just why this is happening there is no accountability being held right now against looters. the u.k. government says it's drawn up a 30 year strategy for dealing with the supposed the threat posed by the kremlin a report on the ledge russian meddling was released on tuesday and it accuses the u.k. of failing to take the threat seriously. who is protecting the british public from interference in our democratic process well in a nutshell we found no one is the u.k. government took its eye off the ball because of its focus on counter-terrorism we

found the defense of the u.k. democratic process is a hot potato the government had badly underestimated the response required to the russian threat and is still playing catch up the outrage isn't that there was interference the outrage is that no one as want to know if there was what is the worst example you can get of the russian interference well that's the question which we want to have unsub the british prime minister is reportedly planning to boost funding for the security services and introduce a new espionage act in response to the russia report that documents publication was delayed by the government for a year and a half before it was finally released this week art is in the hawkins has been looking at what's inside. to get a very brief summary of the long awaited russia report we can go straight to page 13 of the document the written evidence provided to us appear to suggest that

h m g had not seen or saw evidence of successful interference in u.k. democratic processes seems to be enough so if you're short on time or don't want to read heavily redacted intelligence and political spiel stop watching now otherwise let's go on open source studies have pointed to the preponderance of pro breaks it all and he used tories on r.t. in sputnik and the use of bots and trolls as evidence of russian attempts to influence the process we've sought to establish whether there is secret intelligence which supported or built on these studies in response to my 5 initially provided just 6 lines of text the report's authors were seemingly surprised by the limited response of the intelligence services but not because those agencies may have more important priorities such as protecting lives by tackling international domestic terrorism or serious crime apparently more resources are needed to keep track of social media and artie's editorial policies

and coverage breaks it polarized millions with several broadcasters coming under fire but it's still russia that poses the risk and the security services that are doing their job this is about the protection of the u.k.'s democratic process and mechanism from hostile state interference which should fall to our intelligence and security agencies after all moscow has been waging influence campaigns targeting u.k. politics through digital media wealthy individuals organizations and almost any other means the report warns the threats of russian influence is a hot potato with intelligence and other agencies shirking the responsibility of taking the lead in tackling it and reassuring the public amid widespread allegations of again the impact of such influence remains elusive. impact of any such attempts would be difficult if not impossible to assess and we've not

sought to do so state agencies haven't looked closely enough for open source information according to the report they lacked a retrospective assessment and intelligence agencies in particular need a more important role in future the committee was struck by the relatively small proportion of work that is carried out by the agencies in relation to russia in any case should they consider other threats to be a higher priority they can always fall back on trusted russian experts to lead the way christopher steele author of the infamous anonymous golden shower dossier and contributors that the institute for state craft and integrity initiative a project founded to tackle the russian threat receiving state funding to advise the states that russia is a threat and moscow's response was swift and predictable as was the final conclusion of the long awaited russia report showing yet again that any reproach went with the u.k. however small is still be on the horizon we've got reaction on the streets of

london to the claims made in the report. we're nation i don't believe. the position more showers or more destruction what's really going on. and the photo was shot of russia or. just by i mean i just take it to you so why should they need to feel that it's got nothing to do with them lately and that they would take a listen that way to make a list beginning where that. you know other countries really the politics of other people who try to influence government. in chief. as part of the fallout from the report the u.k.'s opposition labor party is also pushing for artie's broadcast license to be revoked and a letter to the country's t.v. regulator off com the watchdog is supposed to be independent and immune from political pressure i am writing to requested off calm urgently reviews artie's

license in light of this report into request a meeting with you as soon as possible to discuss my concerns about the broadcaster . the office of communications was created in 2003 by an act of parliament that regulates britain's t.v. and radio broadcasts and promotes fair competition and off comp locks harmful or offensive content if there are complaints it didn't leave r.t.e. out in the past our investigation from the arts he failed to preserve june partiality in 7 news and current affairs programs between the 17th of march and 26 very pulled 2018 taken together these breaches represented serious and repeated failures of compliance with the rules artie's response to the allegations from the u.k. says that there was no misinformation or falsehood in any of our reporting that off calm has assess r.t.u. chaos action returns it says this is a case of political interference. we now have the words of sakineh stormers shadow

department of culture media and sport secretary in a private letter sent to this independent regulator saying almost telling her urgently i need to see you to see her to do what to politically interfere with an independent regulator devastating the fact that sic here starmer seems obsessed by wanting to destroy a free press in britain puts the british labor party in in the spotlight because that would have implications for a free press in this country for article 19 of the united nations charter human rights charter it would have implications for the human rights act and presumably just as when he was banned for a defend media freedom summit here he would get help from amnesty international index on censorship obviously because yes tom has crossed a line here he is attempting perhaps to interfere with an independent.

independent media regulator politically. still to come on the program israel is in the grip of protests with people there expressing their discontent over the handling of the pandemic at all i met corruption allegations against the prime minister details on that story after this break. you can't be both with me yeah you're like. oh.

capitalism in the united states abandon the united states the leading capitalist in this country are now global capitalism grab that belief that leads them there's middle class without jobs without a future it's a disaster you're covered over with endless you're there but the reality is a disaster and if mr trump were here you would see other people emerge trying to make a political career by clicking to their. welcome back to the weekly around 5000 people flooded the streets of jerusalem on saturday night demanding the resignation of the israeli prime minister who was earlier indicted on graft charges police arrested at least 12 protesters office one of the

rival groups with some speaking out in support of benjamin. crowds have been rolling in the city center throughout the whole week. so let's look at what's causing the anger protesters are unhappy with the government's handling of the coronavirus and they're resisting the return of some lock down measures due to a spike in infections they also say the prime minister and his cabinet have failed to manage the economic fallout of the pandemic on top of all of that there is

simmering anger over corruption charges against netanyahu the prime minister's trial resumes next year with witness testimonies he's accused of fraud a breach of trust and accepting bribes netanyahu has denied all the charges calling them part of a political witch hunt and he's condemned the ongoing protests. not drag the state into anarchy violence vandalism and the spreading of disease through terrible sanitary practices like you're an aging in the streets do not be dragged into attacking police officers they're doing their job political analyst mitchell barrack and former advisor to the president's office jason perlow and give us their views on the civil unrest in israel. it 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 this 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 one of our real 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 stronger position on a stronger position will voice its checks and balances on the new 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 debates around how to handle both the economic sides of the pandemic and the medical side as well. the world health

organization is sounding the alarm of a corona virus infections in europe calling them worrying spain belgium and france have seen recent spikes and cases several european countries have now moved to making p.p. mandatory in all public spaces as well as more on the fears of a european 2nd wave here's r t s p r l. the summer sun has encouraged a return to normal in europe when it comes to covert 19 but ask coronavirus restrictions that be lifted or loosened the world health organization is warning about a potential spike in the virus with eastern europe and the fall could and is deemed to be particularly at risk. we still have some worrying trends in southern europe in the balkans so we're not out of the woods just yet in the european environment it requires sustained vigilance just 2 months ago montenegro was declaring itself

corona free not anymore it seems 2000 cases of the virus have seen social distancing and lock down measures reintroduced but. you may be forgiven for thinking that western europe would force off the worst the pandemic count to offer but there's also been spikes there as well in spain for example the number of new infections has tripled recently peaceful means that you know this when measures have been relaxed is where outbreaks happen is not only family reunions or other types of gatherings where we've had a good number of new outbreaks but also in places where there's been evening entertainment they have also generated some new outbreaks some countries are already reimposing measures in belgium which was ravaged by the 1st wave of the virus pressure is being placed upon their health care system local mayors will be given powers to impose lock downs and curfews in the areas hardest hit we think

that this is not really the time to have phase 5 of the restrictions there will be reinforcements taken to counter this part of the coronavirus instead. germany has been very successful at keeping cases low but this time of year is the peak time for holidays and unfortunately mingling with strangers when traveling. it is a very good way to spread this virus then that's the differences in the precautions taken from country to country here in berlin it's strictly for bolton to write public transport without a mosque while in no way it's optional but there is nothing stopping me popping off the all slow for a few days taking in the sights of the taiga city by tram and bring it back to germany europe like everywhere else is desperate to get back to normality not least of all for economic reasons but steps taken to quickly can end up being steps taken

backwards that comb with tragic consequences coronavirus today is no less infectious and no less deadly than it was a few months back it would have political but mostly economy in europe is more concerned with the economy in the health of its citizens and people the relaxation of the self isolation regime happened too early we do not know much about this virus but it spreads extremely quickly now there have been repeated outbreaks of the virus in many places in spain in terms of the rate of infection the country's approaching the figure of a 1000 people a day due to summer vacations that there are not enough doctors and nurses we need to act quickly in order to find the source of infections and try to immediately isolate and quarantine the people who are nearby in europe borders have been practically opened some places are being visited by tourists i don't think that the control over visitors is very strict if europe does not act together then frankly

it will be difficult at the beginning of the epidemic the government made the wrong decisions by the end of february a quarantine should have been already declared but this is in the past today it is a global problem i see that infections are not only occurring in spain the balkans will be a big source of increased coronavirus and. sections in europe. some people are more vulnerable to cope in 1000 than others and need to take additional precautions but rather than getting down about that one couple and rio de janeiro saw an opportunity to have a bit of fun all while also indulging a lifelong fascination with space travel to get. it and to get. it and. it. didn't make. it into the filming 66 part of the code could risk group and incurring teenage

home i got really anxious feeling that i had to go and do things that could not seen the infection rate was really high. to get what you can report on t.v. i saw an interview the doctor doing for the world in 40 days without seeing his family because he was in the coding skills getting created dinosaur costume to visit his family he was very touching so i thought about doing something similar to go with. the russian city of st petersburg has staged its annual parade celebrating navy day over 40 warships naval aviation and more than $4000.00 personnel took part in the event and more parades are taking place at naval bases around the country here are

the highlights from st petersburg. that's our recap of just some of the stories that helped shape the world these last 7 days as i was telling it.

was a pandemic no certainly no borders i'm just glad to nationalities. has emerged the turkey we don't look like seeing the world peace to be. judged as coming close to sleep system to. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been much so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person or those with.

dares thinks. we dare to ask. for. a. long welcome to worlds apart after decades of telling our then nations how to live

their lives # and build their societies that marriage can so all of a sudden woke up to the realisation that their own house is not in order in a big way so much so that it once they will denounce the nation or their history who can make america great again and how well to discover that i'm now joined by richard walt professor emeritus of economics at the university of massachusetts professor wolf it's great to talk to you thank you very much for a time my pleasure thank you for inviting me now i know that you've been a harsh critic of capital in wide a long time blaming it for everything from systemic racism and to the inadequate response to the damage but i think you would probably agree with me in that just like there is no one single america there is also no uniform version of capitalism your own country have a system back in the sixty's that it was very very different from the one that you have right now so is the problem really with capitalism as an organizational

principle or rather what people do with it. well i think it's a little bit of both you're absolutely right capitalism comes in a variety of different understandings interpretations different concrete forms the american system is special in the way that it limits the government very extremely you know you have a country like that is the britain and even britain doesn't do it as much as the united states so what we have here is a capitalism that is more or less a fair is more private spoke as then anything else which is what the united states has tried to push around the world privatization privatization well now we've come full circle we see how private capitalism works and and i'm not alone in this it is a disaster the private capitalism did not prepare for the pandemic private capitalism is not able to contain the pandemic we are desperate as we compare ourselves

to new zealand to vietnam to japan all these countries with this state is given an important role they were able to prepare and contain in a way that american capitalism could not what sound would argue that it's not the job of private capital in our private enterprises to prepare for the pandemic. and i mean goal is making profit i know that you have. some concerns about profit making as a motive but some people would say this is a very natural human motivator for humans i guarantee increased our resources they may want to increase their chances of survival it's just that the profit should not be defined in very narrow morny terry terms as it is defined.