and so you see things like voter suppression building more prisons you see gerrymandering all sorts of undemocratic practices. in the world the real world. of the. top stories this hour turning a tragedy into a force for change your daughter who lost her father to coronavirus uses is a bit charade to highlight america's health policy failings on the devastating real cost to families it's a few days before she had been saying you know if i'm excited to come home on monday and that would have been 29 june i mean he actually ended up passing away on june 3rd year meanwhile the french right wing leader marine le pen takes aim at her country's can democrats sponsor please in the government a series failings and deliberate lies to the public and.

bitch and switch in portland most donald trump to local pressure to pull federal militia from the city he now says more powerful national guard could be used if the race process under control. hello welcome to watching r t international is just gone for an afternoon here in moscow now we'll start with a story about the death that may inspire change because it was a big tree to her father who died last month from. a campaign for change in america's health system she calls politicians for a lack of leadership accusing them of jeopardizing lives especially among people of color who are more likely to die. from the virus she's collecting the stories of

similarly affected families to push for change and reduce deaths by debt work woke up june 11th with cough and a few for and just wasn't feeling well he had really bad exhaustion unlike you'd ever had before and my mom called me to tell me what was going on and i told her mom i sounds like he has coronavirus at least the symptoms are so we worked to get him scheduled for a test the next day which he got that test but we never got those test results back because he had to be taken to the hospital because his condition got worse before his test results were back and then when he was admitted into the hospital is when we officially learned that he was tested positive for coronavirus luckily when he 1st got to the hospital though you know he was responding. well to the treatment

oxygen had a couple of convalescent plasma treatments from. early on and was on antibiotics you know he was in a normal room for about 10 days before he suddenly took a turn for the worse and had to be taken to the i.c.u. and put on a ventilator and shortly thereafter he passed away the doctors were you know completely shocked that he had just deteriorated so quickly you know it was a shock obviously to me as well especially given my dad's attitude and that just a few days before he had been saying you know i'm i'm excited to come home on monday and that would have been 29 june and he actually ended up passing away on june 30th. well while we were talking to kristen there the united states recorded $1465.00 new deaths that is the highest daily increase since late may in

total coronavirus is now playing to more than 150000 american lives and that means roughly every minute another person does die from covert 19 in the united states last for the state of arizona where kristin and her late father from on thursday did record 172 new coronavirus tests that's a single day record there the state governor is convinced that everything is heading in the right direction and that emergency rooms are seeing a downward trend in patients with symptoms kristen that focus on statistics she says is part of the problem. the trumpet ministration has been downplaying the severity of the price crisis since day one they haven't been doing their jobs you have a quarter needed response to minimize risk while still preserving the economy they've been driving home that's also a narrative that you have to pick one or the other and that's simply not true oh it's you know morally you know not correct at all. just

you know forget that there are real people behind that number it's you know i was thinking about this yesterday as i was reflecting upon the number and today marks the one month anniversary of my father's passing in king about there's 149999 there people families out there that are feeling what i feel and we are currently in a situation where countless others are about to feel the way that i feel. the moment french far right leader marine a pen has written a searing indictment of the government's handling of the coronavirus there she outlines what she says is the failings of president macron and his government and accuses them of deliberately lying to the public with his own powers correspondent sean to pinsky. emmanuel marc bolan adding the french government are again under pressure this time it's over the initial response to the code 19 crisis the

backlash has already seen several more seats and even a column entry inquiry now the leader of the national rally marking the pen has waded in to the debate. i realize that the new government isn't promises of repeating the same mistakes as the previous one even though dozens of other countries are seeing a substantial increase in corona virus cases and the 2 new territory hospitals are reporting in terms of kid missions for people coming over turning from abroad in this book the coronavirus black book from fiasco to a place the party claims president might call on his government to misled the public during the pandemic many issues have been raised 1st there's the wearing of face mosques it points out that when they look down was announced stocks of mosques were taken by the government with pharmacies but didn't from selling them to the

general public now of course wearing a face mask is a blanket treat in enclosed public spaces. the tragedy of this crisis is that we're in a country with the highest taxation in the world where the fiscal bill is the highest on the plays and when at the same time we've lacked for britney 6 newsy many french people have not understood this so it is a question of where the money is going where the french people's money is going to the book and jumps on the european leaders for allowing or even movement in the book to keep seeing you just by the fact that they will morning signs the national rally also takes a swipe at issues such as those in suburban areas in france and he was is the justice system here you think she lacks because it released prisoners during the crisis there are whole series of statements made by the government ministers that.

frankly were just nonsense and they were doing western governments have developed a habit of just saying what suited the moment in order to get over a difficulty it is inevitable that. look i don't doubt that politicians will criticize the government because there formants has been that and they're not the only ones i mean if you look at british government have done any better than the french actually i have to say from my observation internationally have probably been home worse than anybody official data suggests that more than 30000 people he tested positive for the 19 has so far in total more than 185000 cases of the pirates have been wrecked just did the french government has been battling against kopechne 19 it launched a strict lockdown that lasted needy 2 months constructed military hospitals to deal with patients overflow and did injected billions of euros into aiding businesses

and those who found themselves out of work as a result of the pandemic but despite its efforts opinion polls have not been favorable there were even claims that frontline health workers were not given enough protective equipment. we are very very angry because there's been a shortage of staff for years already and this pandemic has created an even bigger problem promises were made but in fact they haven't been capped we still have a lack of beds and not is just getting was i think that we weren't ready for this we haven't been protected enough we have a shortage of equipment and that's why we failed those who got infected nothing left penn is clearly staking her claim to run in france is the next presidential election in 2022 however many of the accusations in the complaint in this book do reflect real concerns that i felt by the french public so deep it's the not

see it's. not present trump is threatening to the poor the national guard if the arm rest against racial injustice continues into the weekend in the city of portland in oregon the mayor had pleaded for a cease fire early this week which then saw the trump of ministration agree to remove federal militia from the city however it doesn't mean that they are packing up just yet in fact does seem to be keeping his options open our people are staying there to see whether or not they could do it today and tomorrow and if they don't do it we will send in the national guard and we'll take care of a lot of very tough people and these are not people that just have to guard the courthouse save these are people that are allowed to go forward and do what they have to do and nationwide unrest in the wake of the death of george floyd has stretched into a 3rd month my own protests in portland are partly inflamed by the presence of federal militia and their increasing use of force president trump has been accused

of abusing his power by sending the men is just some of what's been happening important. such was. was. 6 a. nationwide protest against police brutality and racial injustice rage on. just hours after organs governor announced a phased withdrawal of federal officers from portland this is a gradual withdrawal from portland dozens of officers filled city streets in the largest visible response by the federal government to downtown demonstrators. chaotic confrontations caught on camera the department of homeland security and c.b.p.

officers seen firing tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters gathered near the federal courthouse i still are wearing one demonstrator seen here bleeding from injuries in both of his legs and there's dr. jeffrey governor one razorback there are others facing off with demonstrators at several points throughout the night stand offs in the state unfolding every night since the death of george floyd in may unrest only intensified and since federal agents were deployed by the trumpet ministration to protect the downtown courthouse the president taking aim at the governor tweeting kate brown governor of oregon isn't doing her job she must clear out and in some cases arrest the anarchists and agitators in portland if she can't do it the federal government will do it for her we will not be leaving until there is safety this while federal prosecutors in milwaukee work to dispel concerns that federal agents a part of president trumps operation legend are heading to their cities to disperse demonstrations as seen in portland in milwaukee no personnel from the department of

homeland security will participate in operation large and. meantime demonstrations in seattle are growing increasingly violent police declaring the protest a riot saying demonstrators were throwing bottles and explosives toward officers and in new york city outrage is mounting over a controversial arrest of a demonstrator. video captures the moment plainclothes and y.p. officers grab an 18 year old transgendered woman now identified as nikki stone and forced her inside of an unmarked van some witnesses say that it looked like a kidnapping governor andrew cuomo criticizing the arrest saying i'm surprised that especially at this time the n.y.p.d. would take such an i'm not action it was wholly insensitive to everything that has gone on now the n.y.p.d. says that stone was initially wanted for damaging police cameras property however she has since been released with a desk appearance ticket that means she has to appear before

a new york criminal judge at a leader days meantime lawmakers are calling for an investigation into the incident saying that it nears the kind of arrests that are being made in portland by federal ages are warning of the work trinity jobbers r.t. . well in new york is more of what's been happening there scuffles between police and activists on wednesday officers were deployed near madison square park to try and block protesters elsewhere in the united states in springfield illinois it is reported that at least 2 protesters were arrested at a rally and police officers were seeing using security barriers to stop demonstrators from advance. or from the protests the pandemic it's a lining up to be a turbulent presidential election in just a few months time and donald trump is picking up a storm so by suggesting that november's vote should actually be delayed he says that the surge in applications for postal ballots will make it the most fraudulent election in history we'll have a bit more on that a bit later in the program. join

me every thursday on the elec simon short and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you than. anyone else shows same wrong long lost just don't call. me. yet to shape out this day become educated and engage an equal speech trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

it's definitely something before the garden too small. to trigger this may want to get vaccinated and protected. if you want to overcome the strictures travel restrictions 6 enemy restrictions then we have to have a sexy. welcome back now it is the video sharing app that has got millions hooked around the world and unleashed a wave of generations that creativity or tightly woven into 15 2nd clips enjoy a while you can because he wesley does to suspect there is perhaps more to take the meets the eye and the ban is now on the cards has been taking a look. at that up one. or nice in fact a fact. why don't internet would be better and in the us no

they can't be they wouldn't do that twice we greatly concerned that the chinese communist party could use its control of it to don't to distort will manipulate these conversations to sow discord among americans and to achieve its preferred political outcome i can't believe it all easy as i think that the only thing dangerous up to talk was that it wasted my time away youths but no now it turns out that beijing has been using me for political gain than that of the group of republican senators to try to the actual intelligence the f.b.i. and the spirit by that so so it must be true it's not like us politicians are previously battens free play to country the meddling in its democratic processes and it all turned out to be a witch hunt and you know what looking back now there was so many signs all these videos of people talking politics.

and of course we got the trunk. and then next year we get the bad. google will win the election in 2021. season most people go crazy john but the winner of the present counteraction on 2020 will be donald trump the coronavirus doesn't kill every one person you know was so i'm voting for. them and it gets worse to trust not just interfering in elections it's also spying . what do you recommend that people download that up on their phones tonight tomorrow any time currently oh yeah if you want your private information in the hands of the chinese government it's part of the communist party so my double chin when i opened up the from camera how embarrassing but also how to ferry it here i thought take off just the board th string synchronized on say. american companies

would never do something like that right facebook thank god we are getting rid of that chinese virus amp tech top you know facebook does the same thing right no way he says city doesn't understand that side and again face the use not private data for good enough job chimes ticked off the bat just my luck said facebook is a public good you should be more concerned about her talk thrown by china to talk clicks personal info that consent has been used to spread fake news and as a national security threat you know what we don't even need to talk and wait facebook came up with the pope sorry version lasso all by itself so that take it down because it's so bad but teething problems the 2nd version will be much better but i still can't get over how that out of the blue the sword is why did china do this to people who only have the want to democracy and peace in the world so all that great war and closing in on the sequel to it ok fine make a vision of the china virus and yeah i'm going to try and tell them what to do with

their own territory and shoulda been grinding down the hallway off holes in everyone around the globe to do the same but it's not like that targeted or anything china drew them to it look at naughty behavior it just never listens and now it's making up some lame excuse for why tick tocks not wanted us shuls let's focus our energies on fair and open competition in service of our consumers rather than maligning attacks by our competitor namely facebook disguised as patriotism and designed to put an end to our very presence in the us. i mean that's just ridiculous i mean do you also healthy competition that's what forced everyone to say no way to walk away so we can go there 1st the fire then i think we need to take a moment to remember the real victims in all of this so you guys we have a dilemma ok i'm hearing that to talk maybe beyond in america and this is the problem i just started becoming famous and i only have 100 people where's your job

don't you have like 15000000 followers or ticks are learning more the benefits are to you're going to get a regular job well the clock's ticking no time to waste so take took you know to talk it's a hit yes it is but we didn't come up with that i know you didn't yeah that's going to be a problem why you you love free markets the coolest we do if we pay enough and what would you say a ban is on the table. one last i'm listening oh i don't know yet how does out in november. talk to talk i don't have all day of the pandemic to fight the civil unrest. i used to so yeah about probably by the way how great that looks ask. us to

tailor there now in other news today muslims around the world are celebrating the holiest event in the islamic calendar pilgrimage is the focus but this year her also has eyes on the stamboul because that's where the festival is being celebrated in the world renowned highest of fear which has reverted to being a mosque the 1st time in over 8 decades turkish president repurposed unesco list of museums early this month much to the consternation of christian orthodox countries such as greece it had also been a church in a previous incarnation but was turned into a mosque during the rise of your lemon pie in the mid 15th century. now doesn't take much for donald trump to fire up angry responses on the internet or tweet usually does it and on thursday he did float the idea that the november presidential election should be delayed he's worried about postal voting he says

which he claims without a lot of evidence will lead to fraudulent results his critics who say it's because the system will mean that he will loose the president can actually delay the election in practice the data isn't shrines in the constitution although congress would have the final say. we must take president trump's attempt to undermine the faith of our republic seriously this is what authoritarians do if democrats lose the 2020 election trump world not allow a free and fair election again over the past 20 years there's been a point 00006 percent cases of fraud in all mail and ballots cast in presidential elections from wants to delay the election because he knows he has a point 00006 percent chance of winning donald trump doesn't have the authority to do this but that doesn't make what he's doing any less dangerous it's clear he will stop at nothing to spread misinformation and so division to distract from the mass

he's created this is what we're up against. well to date no u.s. presidential election has ever been canceled postponed even during the civil war and the 2nd will ask for postal voting which trump claims is fraud the coronavirus pandemic is expected to see a record number of americans turn to voting by mail so they can adhere to social distancing is proponents to say it's no more susceptible to fraud than any other voting method american journalist analysts are 8 things the upcoming election is bound to see allegations of fraud from both sides of the political divide. seems clear that is trying to deal jeremiads the elections and that's really important trump has already in asia already said he will not commit to abiding by the results and he regards the mail in ballots as fraudulent which could allow him to mount a challenge. actions are held to the vote count in storks so there will probably

probably be a good very loose chaos on election day and for weeks after the democrats the republicans are going to try are going to cry fraud and the democrats are going to blame russia if they lose and the republicans were. to blame the democrats and fraudulent voting so this is not going to be a normal action the american electoral process is falling apart. now the russian council in bellerose has been given access to see the 33 russian citizens detained on suspicion of terrorism earlier on friday president putin did say to me that he expects better research to swiftly release the men and hawkins has more now on the developing accusations and reactions between minsk a moscow. the state security service alongside police detained 32 russian nationals in a senatorial near the capital minsk with a 33rd national detained in the south of the country

a little later on they'd been there for a few days before being detained on the 29th now they stand accused of being mercenaries allegedly for the so-called wagner group a private military company that apparently sends a russian fired as a board on the orders of the russian government and the police say they were acting suspiciously they had unexplained strange baggage belongings they were wearing military style camouflage uniforms all behavior they say uncoached risk of tourists or visitors to the country now the charges against them of course if this goes further are very serious indeed they stand accused of trying to organized terrorist plots according to the better russian security committee of trying to destabilize the situation in the country but a russian security forces also say they're looking for dozens of other most of the reasons they say a group of around $200.00 arrived in belarus and this is just a fraction of the now the russian ambassador. for the russian ambassador to the

roof has said there was nothing nefarious about their presence in the country he said they were in by the roofs. in transit to go to another country all their documentation was present and in order including their travel documents as well and there are also unconfirmed reports they had signed contracts on them working for a company in another country protecting energy assets the russians who arrived at the bill research dissonant or in the in minsk were forced to do this due to the fact that in this flight from the national airport to a group publix capital heading in transit to country now the timing here is very important because this comes at a moment of political tension in the roof's the presidential elections a. the week or so away come what president alexander lukashenko faces one of his toughest election runs in his number of years in power there have been opposition

rallies taking place across the country and he's been very clear warning against any sort of political unrest any political provocations and quite scathing towards russia in his accusations of them being caught red handed. we need to address the russian mass media and also the not to say nonsense if you are guilty you need to get out of this situation with dignity not guilty good we have no goals to discredit the country close to us the russian ambassador to belarus us called for an end to what he calls a groundless speculation in the media calling for a joint investigation into this incident which has so far ruffled quite a few diplomatic feathers and caused quite a strain between minsk in moscow. that hawkins with the latest there just coming up to. bring you up to date with events in the world so far today don't forget that you can also keep across the news to you on our social media pages and you teach.

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repatriations for the rest of 7 they're. going to set. a record. greetings and salutation with millions across the united states facing eviction is over $150000.00 u.s. citizens no longer with us due to the u.s. government's abject failure in responding to the covert 19 pandemic and weather experts now predicting hurricane season is set to unleash at least 13 brutal hurricanes on the u.s. shores in the coming months i bet with all of that you cannot guess are the priority of the united states congress.