headlines an r.t.a. not so secret anymore a key source in the discredited trumped russia collusion report from 2016 is unmasked and it emerges that is evidence boils down to bar room conversations also to come facebook takes a new regulators to call claiming their competition probes an invasion of star privacy and the irony is not lost on data protection campaigners plus a president from bolshie federal forces in the city of portland after weeks of black lives matter protest says critics of black lives matter protests is criticism mounted from local leaders who accuse him of abusing his powers and the mother of a 12 year old boy dragged from his house by officers in the middle of the night

over to accuse is london's police of racial profiling. that's why it's disbelief and shock i was angry well one. way they're not really a white busy people involved which is you know busy. oh they're good afternoon welcome you're watching r.t. international it's just gone 2 o'clock here in moscow now a secret source for the notorious private intelligence report which failed to link donald trump to russian collusion in 2016 has been revealed and it turns out to it is a u.s. resident rather than the suppose it russia based source so as you go she darn of now explains a lot of the dossier seem to rely on chats between drinking buddies. it was a dossier that some prophesies would spell doom for donald trump as president and

as a human being with any shred of decency the document penned by still spread like wildfire across the media spilling way beyond the u.s. borders the dossier the dossier that controversial document it alleges overt knowing collusion while unconfirmed accusations was. to cool the file salacious would be an understatement the claim that trump hired prostitutes to pee all over a bed at a luxury moscow hotel simply because the obama's once slipped in was just one of the highlights but trump's enemies believed wanted to believe after all the mysterious incognito informant was said to have infiltrated the innermost of russia's circle well turns out the russians soules was in fact

a bar fly in the us former journalist and now analyst igor duncan co apparently admitted that he got his information from people he was hitting the bottle with primary subsurface and source for drink heavily together and source for always looks forward to getting together with source 4 when primary sub sources in town are you one go as far as calling him an alcoholic but it looks like some might dungeon girl might have boozed so hard that even got him into legal trouble but nobody's perfect the f.b.i. thought a little party never killed nobody the state department agreed delirious drunken drivel you might say but america needs to know him because he fell in with information united states government should have some lawyer when he developed the information relating to 2016. assault on our democracy interference in our

elections he felt it was important that the us government be aware of it and you'd think that the revelation about the sources credibility or rather the lack of it would be the main line in the us media but who am i kidding the new york times for instance confirming the sources identity a whole week after the story broke has been fanning suspicion about artie's website for publishing the story on time a news website posting news the outrage russian is always the eternal bogeyman in the american media no it's not quite sure why but it's been that way since the cold war and they've refused to let go of it it's go to berlin so most democrat voters most media people most journalists we really know what the point of . trying to clues or rush or not existing crews are with russia might be how that might jeopardize national security they just see a scary word like russia and they run with that with the election less than

a 100 days away who knows maybe another installment will cool out of the woodwork to feed the intelligence rumor mill. our london mother is accusing police there of racially profiling her family after her 12 year old son can i was dragged from the heights during the night and handcuffed because his toy gun was suspected of being the real thing we aged pong talked to story what happened. but midnight on that for a day just crossed over into saturday early hours of the morning and we've been absolutely in the living room 'd and you know car i went to the door i followed him and we just missed it with you know about 4 or 5 officers holding why falls and they have is red beams you know on our bodies are like heads.

up that something out of a movie. so you hands up. all of us 2 other daughters you see. the sleepers in front of me which is i was explaining to them i haven't got any firearms that have any illegal in the house. you know i didn't understand why that was there but they was very very poised. straight ahead just like you have to come up with. my. job was on. you have no shoes on and they just arrested him immediately. or dozens of officers there to descend on the family's home and sniffer dogs tell you when found 12 year old and his plastic pellet gun the raid came after a passer by alerted police saying they saw through the living room window there was a black male holding a firearm on the sofa eyes mother says that the metropolitan police racially

profiled her family which she claims has never been in trouble with the law london police chiefs to say there's been no misconduct and that the boy was let go when it became clear that the toy gun was not a real firearm said the case is still being referred to the independent office for police conduct karr's mother described the effect it's had on her family. at least i was angry as well once quite a way then that feeling of you know why you did 'd nothing wrong. now i'm home 'd on the friday evening in a roundabout way they just before the well you know 5 always reports take them seriously we have to follow that model which i mean agreement with we just disagree on how they felt but mainly they were saying you know this is the gang related crime in the area the fact that clive was a male there was a mention of him being

a black male obviously you know in the pool hall the face things you know they take very seriously and you know i didn't quite explain why such expects to pull off but i just said you know they were just doing their job basically are more than aware of how 'd disproportionate young black men stop and search for the place to clear my area and they will most talkative and then you know they might want complaints straight away or to speak to the chief the superintendent and he started talking about operation tried and he started talking about you know getting laid quiet and making those associations and when he read me out of school that was made. by the passer by and there was very little evidence there at all but that was the fact it was a black now and i think that that could have something to do that as a mother arkansas probably full of mothers who have young boys very very fearful of boys in today's society but certainly young black boys and more more fearful of him

growing up he's not even been yet 12 so i'm so scared when he gets to 1516 how the police are the perceived him how they're going to treat interest obviously see there's a big big threat right now and they came to the door clearly a 12 year old child immediately arrested him. and put that perception of thought by arms that was the this is fiction so i think i'm terrified. now looks like the shoe is on the other foot over facebook because it's now taking the e.u. to court claiming it's competent is competition investigations of breaching its employees privacy is our europe correspondent peter oliver. well facebook all suing the e.u. antitrust regulators for what it says are necessary demands for information including personal details of facebook employees it's all part of an ongoing

investigation by brussels into facebook marketplace which allows users to buy and sell goods on the platform so far facebook have handed over 300000 documents but they say no more will be sent towards brussels from them the exceptionally broad nature of the commission's requests means we would be required to turn over predominantly in relevant documents that have nothing to do with the commission's investigations including highly sensitive person information such as employees medical information personal financial documents and private information about family members of employees facebook have also said that they will petition the e.u. court it looks emberg to prevent any further data requests until this lawsuit is heard facebook a coming at this breach of employee privacy as they see it anyway read illegal tooth and claw but this is of course the same facebook that was slap bang at the center of the cambridge analytical scandal back in 28 seeing when the private data

of 87000000 facebook users was harvested and passed on to 3rd parties that scandal prompted their boss to have to make quite a few apologies that was a big mistake now was a mistake and it was my mistake and i'm really sorry that this happened i'm sorry and i'm sorry for it. well the 8 years sites say that their offices of active completely within the normal procedures and they deny any claims of well anything but by facebook it's also highly unlikely considering facebook's past that they are going to get a lot of public sympathy as they file this lawsuit against the ongoing investigation into them. now the trumpet ministration is reportedly sending at least a 100 more militarized federal agents to the city of portland in oregon is nationwide protests against racism continue into a 3rd month is being confirmed that the much criticized task force will stay in the

city until the anti-racism demonstrations are over 20 protesters were arrested over the weekend in face federal charges meanwhile the mayors of 6 major u.s. cities including portland are appealing to congress to make it illegal for the president to send in the military when it's not been requested. i. struggle. me more portland based civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit against the homeland security and justice departments they say that peaceful protesters have suffered from an excessive use of force by police leaving some injured or real the lawsuit says that president trump has illegally overstepped his authority by sending in federal troops while other cities are

reckoning the rallies important to natasha sweet now from r.t. america has more details on that. but that blast you heard was fireworks it's what demonstrators were throwing tore portland oregon several courthouse and made another night of protests over the death of george floyd. president donald trump sent in general agents who deployed to your gas to break up the rioters throwing these fireworks for 2 straight months of protests have descended on the streets of portland since floyd was killed in minneapolis back in may but our governmental bodies have been out there they're not really listening to our voices especially flag voices heard that they want to just ever since the beginning of time when lowery was saying the mothers in law if they're going to ask if that is the life out of this was the scene in seattle washington over the weekend as police clashed with protesters there at least 45 people were arrested

and 21 place officers were injured during the demonstrations police declared a riot following large protests deploying flash bangs and pepper spray to try and clear crowds a bird's eye view from oakland california where protests turned violent demonstrators setting the courthouse on fire late saturday on twitter of the oakland police department same protesters were breaking windows shooting fireworks spray painting graffiti and point lasers at officers and helicopters by 11 30 pm police declared an unlawful assembly tank in austin texas. a protester was shot and killed saturday night during a b.l.m. rally police say a man driving his car near the rally fatally shot someone who he says approached his car and pointed a weapon at him and in chicago hundreds of black lives matter protesters marched through the streets this was happening at the same time a pro police demonstration known as back to the blues was happening saturday hundreds of federal agents have been traveling to the windy city as part of the

administration's operation legend to help tackle violent crime on friday 3. and were charged with federal gun crimes merely relate it was originally against finnish a tip but later came to support it hoping to help curb the consistent violence happening throughout the city reporting in los angeles and hash sweeps r.t. . meanwhile u.s. china relations are undoubtedly at their lowest point in years and show little sign of settling anytime soon the most recent actions have seen china shut down the american consulate in chengdu in response to a similar move by the u.s. or china took down the american flag in erected a war around the premises mission staff were given 72 hours to finish up and move out and u.s. diplomats their families have to be out of china next month both countries accuse each other of aggression as far as closing 'd additional embassies it's always

possible they were burning documents or burning papers from. the chinese sides requirement to close and take over the u.s. consul general in chengdu is a justified response to the justifiable behavior of the u.s. side we need a strategy to protect the american economy and indeed our way of life through free world must triumph over this new tyranny of the free world doesn't change doesn't change governments china will surely change us. completely repudiated the 40 year history of china us relations compare claiming who wants to defend democracy and freedom taken by no means to represent these ideals only serves the american hegemony and the interest groups behind him. last week the us demanded the closure of the chinese consulate in houston shortly after its be heard a fire was reported in the yard he suspected that documents were being destroyed

the u.s. claims the facility was being used for espionage which is something beijing denies runyan from the americas department of beijing's international studies institute things that trump is trying to school vote by being tough on china. there will be like a more tense here riyadh for the time that you start u.s. relations with before and during the trying to try to heal action because we see you know biden starting to all kinds of like polls i think he's leading over you know major. specially in the swing states that how strong wayne 2016 so i believe that. faith that is in their political advantage to play the china card to be to get tougher on china to win the middle or to win the base and she finally when a real action and china outwork be tough on china be hard on china as it has been

developed into bipartisan consensus is fair for us to say that. you know as the new political correct in united states. still to come this hour brazil's leader is being accused of crimes against humanity and neglect over the covert crisis and the complaints are being taken all the way to the hague we'll have the details just after the break. when i was. wrong. why don't we just don't hold. any world yet to shape out these days. to. be close to trails. just to look for

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again now while countries around the world brace for a 2nd wave of covert infections north korea has just marked its for suspected case the countries present potential countries potential patients 0 was found with covert related symptoms in the border city of kaesong which was locked down on friday afternoon north korean state media claim it's a defector who fled 3 years ago but illegally crossed back over the border to the north early last week if covert is confirmed it will be north korea's 1st officially acknowledged infection the country steadfastly denied having any cases before this a claim that's widely questioned by outside experts let's talk to someone who knows a lot about north korea norwegian filmmaker and author morten traffic is with us he's been to north korea lots and made 2 documentaries to you very welcome thanks for coming on what you make of the skepticism among some this can't be north korea's 1st case or potential case of covert 19 and i suspect you know that the

north koreans are just covering it up. well it certainly. may be a bit exaggerated. there would be no case of coded whatsoever inside north korea however i think yes totally possible with the societal control mechanisms in such a tightly controlled society such as no korea i think it's very likely that those cases are very can be very few. and with regard to the story behind this potential case they've linked to the defect to hit them return back i with the border again i suppose that is provable but some might say also this is perhaps political gang play what would be your take on it. well i would come to support that 2nd point of view. my back on this in theater and film of the director and my view on north korea comes to because by that i can't interpret north korean maneuvers in life.

through through the performative lens so to speak. the north korean regime. almost never entirely get in the sea on a narrative of protecting the north korean people against a hostile iran. such whether or not the. particular person has called it or not which isn't even confirm yet or maybe it won't be at all. it. is very convenient for the north korean state to keep feeding the narrative that the outside world is in europe it can even it cannot only invade us. and i.l.s. us it can also in fact of. this narrative work on so many levels with inside that were developed very firmly established north korean state not so if

this is indeed a defector that has acted back. it's sort of. sitting in your car i'm sort of a double. double whopper with cheese for the reason certainly par for the course would be another analogy what then would be the state of north korea south korea relations with regard to that it sounds like this is just one of many things that have happened in the past and probably wouldn't have that great an impact. yeah you know we are the whole world. or moving toward. a mental climate of our choosing the symbolic gesture. the current time as a corporation between the north and the south is so bad anyway i mean the north blew up the. dormant after all but still they blew up the liaison office in a song or near kiss on. just a couple of weeks ago which was supposed to be

a channel for north korea's collaboration so closing the border closing down kaesong whatever that means in practice doesn't cost them anything at all however the youth. council. no get. speaking in terms of propaganda of every defector coming back to the arms of the party on the motherland block unfortunately having the in infested by the outside the dangers of the outside world. is i mean that's an opportunity they would be silly not to use you'll just lastly most not just wondered if it was the start of perhaps a pandemic in north korea from your own point of think the country would be in a good position to deal with it. absolutely not i mean the north korean health

service system is. very for. side a couple of. percent it is in some young capital so i mean from from a purely. practical point of view it also makes total sense for the north korean state to be that you could have annoyed about it because they certain. wouldn't that help. new york we're coming. ok morton we'll leave it there really good to talk to you that was a morton. who's made 2 documentaries on north korea and it was good to have you on the program today thank you. brazil's frontline health workers and senior clerics are accusing the president of crimes against humanity over the covert outbreak there are now taking their complaint to international the international criminal court in the hague brazil has suffered more than 87000 deaths and 2400000

registered cases making it the 2nd worst affected country after the united states a union representing more than a 1000000 brazilian medical professionals say that jebel scenario reacted to the pandemic with contempt neglect and denial also points to bolton are adamant insistence to you on using medicines which are proven to be ineffective in treating with 19 and that is resistance to social isolation measures to actually worsened the spread of the virus it is the 2nd complaint to the i.c.c. against the narrow over the health crisis the 1st was filed back in april with similar accusations from the outset he has brushed off code it is just a flu urging the population to carry on as normal earlier this month he tested positive for the virus himself although he does say he is negative now i'm feeling fine the chief editor of the brazilian news source opera monday says that real

action against paul scenario will only be effective with international pressure. both together has been. described against humanity because of land management against clearing a virus then we know so sure so. you know you national no coordination no realistic. solution. who wants to stay. advantage all of this how bleak cries is in older to talk to people who are this is paraded we draw any car is a police go go corelation brazilian president needs to be pulled under international pressure in order to take real measures against and then make both. health global it system and it can only imagine to stay social isolation. now with the us way out in front in terms of covert

cases a lot of face to face interaction has shifted online and that includes religious services to as churches close their doors said though some worshippers have been showing perhaps a little too much faith in their ability to fight infections with an entire baptist community contract in the virus and ignoring distancing advice as the story. most churches and religious congregations in the united states are holding their services online rather than in person due to public health concerns the warrior creek missionary baptist church designed to go ahead and have a multi day revival of bent despite concerns let everybody do with the felt like social distance most of them stuck with their own family if you were comfortable shaking hands you should hands if you didn't you didn't after a few days of clapping singing and praying the church decided to call off their event one of the members of the congregation who was attending the services had

tested positive for coded 19 it turned out there were 40 people who ended up infected with code 19 and 2 serious cases that were reported were in revival morning and night services on the way back over those days one who found out i got a call that one of the guys in the church has to positive so we shut down revival and by friday night up go to church members sick every web the fact that churches across the united states remain closed has become a major point of political contention new york city's mayor bill de blasio threaten to send in forstmann agents to shut down churches and synagogues that are continuing to hold services meanwhile u.s. president donald trump says he wants churches open some governors have deemed the liquor stores or abortion clinics as essential but have left out churches and other houses of worship steroids so i'm correcting this injustice and calling

houses of worship essential now this recent incident in alabama is not the 1st time that churches have been a place where covert 19 was spread according to the new york times over 650 cases can be traced back to just 40 religious gatherings however many conservative voices are saying that if black lives matter protests are permitted shouldn't churches be able to go ahead as well it will come up and r.t. new york. and that brings up sites this hour that's how things are looking say foster they hear nothing more from us now that help there. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest in the world of politics sports business i'm sure.