carnage on american streets as black lives matter protesters and authorities face off we hear from a reporter who is caught up in a police crackdown. saying hey i'm. back to work i started filming. the other stories that shapes of the week here on our to international the u.k.'s opposition labor party pushes for our broadcast license to be revoked after a report on alleged russian influence and we ask londoners what they think. i don't believe. because this is more destruction what's really going on i think the

thank you so what should be. is a 2nd wave several countries see a spike in credible cases just weeks after reopening their doors to tourists also ahead. israel is gripped by public outrage over the prime minister's handling of the pandemic amid an ongoing corruption probe. our broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us are you know a wave of street unrest gripped major american cities on saturday some of the worst riots were in seattle and portland. it was

due. in one incident an unidentified device exploded next to the seattle the police department's east precinct tearing a hole in the side of that building

a total of $21.00 officers were injured during clashes throughout the day. in the central seattle police used pepper spray to force crowds back and some were seen as beating activists with sticks one reporter filmed the moment he was pepper sprayed. for a. gun i just got shot. that's crazy i just got shot it's raining about. among the people we spoke to in the city on saturday was 'd joy why so the journalist you just saw being pepper sprayed there here's what he had to say. we get to a point where the police vents on the protesters they get closer and closer to him saying hey i'm peaceful i'm packing up and you can see

a police officer from seattle show backwards into a crowd of people and then i obviously drop off i turn myself around and try to. start filming him and pepper sprayed me directly and now at that point i cannot breathe and i cannot see or hear a helicopter flying over me. in the middle of the premise. of the police. earlier this week more than a dozen u.s. mayors mainly democrats voiced alarm over the federal crackdown but president trump refused to buckle stating more troops will be sent to trouble sponson he's 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 in stop any unconstitutional actions meanwhile the chaos has hit retailers in portland several stores have been vandalized and looted over the past 2 months one of the targets was a jewelry store that has been operating for 30 years in may looters broke into the premises and ransacked of the store the owner know how told us clients are afraid to go downtown. 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 a lot of graffiti just destruction everywhere and we're very disappointed with the city 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 about 7 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 and you allow lawlessness when you allow and when you don't hold people accountable this stuff is going to continue and their leadership failed the businesses the residents of downtown portland big time and despite this is happening there is no accountability being held right now against looters. the u.k. government says it has drawn up a 30 year strategy for dealing with the suppose a threat posed by the kremlin a report on alleged russian meddling was released on tuesday the inquiry accused london of failing to take the threat seriously. who is protecting the british public from interference in our democratic process when a note show we found no one is b. u.k.

government took its eye off the ball because of its focus on counterterrorism 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 would want to know if there was what is the worst example you can give all the russian interfere in 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 russian report the reports publication that was delayed by the government for a year and a half before it was finally released on tuesday artie's daniel hawkins runs through it. to get a very brief summary of the long awaited russian 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 the u.k. democratic process is 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 builds 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 threat 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. the 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 beyond the horizon without the thoughts of londoners about the claims made in the russian report here's what they had to say the notion i don't believe. the position more saddam or destruction was really going on. and the fact there were a shot of russia was there just by the enemy i just think we can't get to the way should be to you and this kind of thing to do with them lately to know if they were telling us now wait it may take a listen to be guinea aware that. you know other countries ruined the politics of other people will try to influence for government interest. as part of the fallout of the russia report the u.k.'s opposition labor party is also pushing for artie's broadcast license to be revoked that came through a letter to the country's t.v. regulator off the watchdog is independent and supposed to be immune from political

pressure. i am writing to request it off calm urgently refuse archies license in light of this report into request a meeting with you as soon as possible to discuss my concerns about the broadcaster . well the office of communications to give it its full title was created in 2003 by an act of parliament it regulates britain's t.v. and radio broadcasts and promotes fair competition of com blocks harmful or offensive content if there are complaints and r.t. has been in the dock previously. 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 pool 2018 taken together these breaches represented serious and repeated failures of compliance with the rules. all right in response to the latest allegations from the u.k. r t points out that there has been no misinformation or falsehoods in any of our reporting

that off calm has assessed our 2 u.k. host option retards he says it boils down to an issue of political interference. we now have the woods sick in a storm is shatter because when you culture media and sport secretary in a private letter sent to this independent regulator saying. telling the urgently i need to see you to see that you want to politically interfere with an independent regulator devastated the fact that sick. 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 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 he s. dahmer has crossed a line here he is attempting perhaps to interfere with an independent. independent media regulated politically. still ahead this hour on arch international european nations scramble to prevent a 2nd wave of covert $1000.00 but the world health organization is concerned it might not be enough punch more still ahead this hour as well this is the weekly on r.t. international. media a reflection of reality.

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welcome back to the weekly right here on our team international now around 5000 people flooded the streets of jerusalem on saturday night demanding the resignation of the israeli prime minister who was earlier indicted on graph charges and police made at least a dozen arrests clashes were reported between rival groups with some speaking out in support of binyamin netanyahu crowds have been rallying in the city center as well throughout the entire week. how. cool. let's look at what is causing the anger protesters are unhappy with the

government's handling of covert 19 and they are resisting the return of a number of lockdown 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's a simmering anger over corruption charges against mr netanyahu. now the prime minister's trial resumes next year with witness testimonies he is accused of fraud breach of trust and accepting bribes netanyahu has denied all charges calling them part of a political witch hunt and he has condemned the ongoing protests. not drag the state into anarchy violence vandalism and the spreading of disease through terrible sanitary practices like you are in a thing in the street do not be dragged into attacking police officers they're doing their job. a former adviser to the israeli president's office jason perlow men and political analyst michel baraki gave us their views on the civil unrest and anger in the nation. really 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. 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 really economic plan that is going to put israel back on to a strong economy as we move through different stages both politically because we have 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 debate around how to handle both economic sides of the pandemic and the medical side as well. the world health organization is sounding the alarm over a spike in crime of virus infections across europe calling them worrying spain belgium and france and have all seen some of the largest new outbreaks it has led to several european countries making personal protective equipment mandatory in all public spaces with more on that the fears of a 2nd wave here's our europe correspondent peter all over the summer sun has encouraged a return to normal in europe when it comes to covert 19 but ask coronavirus restrictions to be lifted or lucent the world health organization is warning about a potential spike in the virus with eastern europe and the polk and is deemed to be

particularly at risk. we still have some worrying trends in southern europe and 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 too often but there's also spikes there as well in spain for example the number of new infections has tripled recently in this peaceful use of the ozone to swim issues have been relaxed is when outbreaks happen is known any family reunions or other types of gatherings where we've had a good number of new outbreaks but also in places where there has 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 the health care system local mayors will be given powers to impose lock downs and curfews in the air. it's hardest hit we think that this is not really the time to have to face 5 easing 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 is a very good way to spread this virus they miss the differences in the precautions taken from country to country here in berlin it's strictly for bolton to ride public transport without a mask while in norway it's optional but there's nothing stopping me popping off

the all slow for a few days taking in the sights of the taiga city by tram the brink of 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 come 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 pour in to the people who are nearby in europe the waters have been practically open some places or be visited by tourists i don't think that the control over of visitors is very strong. 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 infections in europe. covered 19 has of course been a fatal reality for many people around the world and there is barely a minute in the day it is not mentioned but rather than getting down about all of the terrifying headlines one couple in rio de janeiro saw an opportunity to have

a little bit of fun while also indulging a lifelong fascination with space travel because after all space is cool. it. did and. it and. it. did. it. for 5966 spot of the coded risk group and in cornton at home i got really anxious feeling that i had to go out and do things but could not sing infection rate was really high. that what you report on t.v. i saw an interview with a doctor he went for more than 40 days without seeing his family because he was in the cozy tall schools getting created dinosaur costume to visit his family he was very touching so i thought about doing something similar to go out.

so you petersburg has staged its annual parade celebrating navy day over 40 warships naval aviation and more than $4000.00 personnel took part let's take a look at some of the highlights of the event and russia's northern capital.

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1st year of conflict damascus became a ghost town. non-official hey at 10 am. i. a of us in all feel add. to that a great. samuel l. photo refuses to quit his high risk job as a t.v. cameraman despite coming under sniper emulsify a many times. did fax to samir that we've been able to follow developments in syria and how they affect ordinary civilians caught in the crossfire of this bloody conflict.