protests turned violent as demonstrators defy a curfew in the u.s. city of comes after the police shot a black man there reportedly leaving him paralyzed. the british prime minister joint calls for an investigation into the alleged poisoning of russian opposition activist alexina valmy but the kremlin says no one should jump to conclusions when the substance found in his system hasn't been identified. and those facebook blocks a group from thailand criticizing the king we look at how the social media giant picks and chooses who it supports.

malcolm to r.c. international live from moscow one column brought with this hour's headlines stories and developments 1st for you then hundreds of protesters in the u.s. city of commotion defied an overnight curfew designed to bring an end to recent unrest violence erupted after police shot a black man multiple times in the back on sunday on the 3rd night of protests 2 people were shot dead and one was injured. that's. our goal and i. think. rick says it and those things like you can hear people talking behind me.

let me see if you think. they're making some sort of announcement at exactly but. nothing about implants and put on their gas masks. to some of the polling and. i think the crowd is gradually moved back to the car. you can see the pepper balls 1st thing and that sense. of the whole of. people listening. to the mind me.

well let's now look back at how the unrest in wisconsin began on sunday and also its causes now please be aware that this is upsetting video of what happened it shows police shooting jacob blake from behind his family say the 29 year old is now paralyzed from the waist down all to america political commentator alvin tourist says he. not surprised by the protest. when the only people would be surprised at the people who believe the issues of institutional racism in this country i mean i remember back originally when black lives matter 1st started were trayvon martin and then you know you had mike brown or gardner and you had case after case of these shootings of young black men and women across the country were officers were never really held accountable for that and you had protests throughout these kind of false you know. dog and pony show styled fixes of the institutional racism without really addressing it without really. you know taking it to task and really

changing the culture in the major in this country but that allows these things to happen so no it doesn't surprise me that we're seeing once again george floyd now this man in wisconsin it's a pattern that's not going to change until there is real actual honest change in this country and that doesn't come from just you know politicians getting on t.v. and promising reforms would never happen there's also anger why can osha police still don't have body cameras which could shed more light on what happened despite city authorities approving body cams way back in 2017 supplies instead to be delayed and still won't be ready for another 2 years but you can rules in wisconsin also inconsistent histories don't have them in other parts of the state they not only wear them they must also keep recordings for months in case an investigation is needed the america's been swum says that it would have made a big difference in the case of jacob blake. it is institutional failure and by the

way it is not true that there are not clear regulations in fact the governor of wisconsin has set out very clear guidelines for how body cameras are to be used how long footage from those body cameras is to be kept in public record when that's all been laid out so that the problem is when you have a situation like what we exactly like what we had in this community just the other night this is why body cameras are so badly needed over and over we see it. because an officer tells one story the person who is in confrontation with police tells a different story witnesses tell a different story and then you have the story of those who manage it in some cases certainly not at all but in some cases get to use their cell phones to capture any . version of what happened right because the camera video that we see from a distance is not the whole story it's a snippet the moment of it but body cameras are supposed to protect the officer and the person who's being confronted but there's been such a push to not use body cameras to run away from that technology that it becomes

disingenuous when there is a situation like this and now the mayor says oh it's a budget issue it's not a budget issue it's a lack of will issue. well issues relating to the black lives massive movement are also making headlines in the u.k. the b.b.c. announced that it's dropping the lyrics from a performance of 2 iconic songs which is being linked to slavery and colonialism we'll be discussing that later in the program. by the british prime minister's join the growing chorus of international voices demanding an investigation into the alleged poisoning of russian opposition activist. but before any probes even have a chance to get going boris johnson is already stating as fact that he was deliberately targeted. the poisoning of alexander short the world the u.k. stands in solidarity with him and his family we need a full transparent investigation into what happened the perpetrators must be held

accountable and the u.k. will join international efforts to ensure justice is done boris johnson the british prime minister saying that the u.k. backs an independent investigation into what happened to me it would seem he supported in that by the german government there was a press briefing on wednesday here in berlin not a lot mentioned about mr no violence but they did say that they stressed the importance of an investigation taking place over the atlantic in the united states u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o said that he was concerned by reports that it's come out from germany and that stay should they prove accurate the united states supports a full investigation now what we've heard coming out from moscow is to me to the press corps of the kremlin spokesperson saying that moscow also wants to know what happened but the findings of the german clinic alone aren't grounds to launch an investigation as far as they're concerned mr peskov also sent out

a warning against jumping to conclusions we repeat that we're also interested in finding what's happened to the victim numerous analyses by our doctors have been no help in detecting the substance that causes current state we're not aware of the german medics found a substance numerous wordings about poisoning that are widely used now we treat them with patients but do not agree with such a version at the current stage 1st we should find the poisonous substance as were the statements of discontent they should come officially and not from the mass media or the hospital in skin russia that 1st treated alexei navalny carried out tests to see if they could find any toxins in his system 1st offered to share all of their information. with the hospital here in berlin they are now calling on the shot at a hospital in the german capital to share information with them to try and determine exactly what they found in alexina valley system as it stands at the

moment so when it comes to the condition of alexina follow me what we know for the latest is that he remains stable but in an induced coma there's been no further updates from medics here in germany. i like to london then we can talk to marco gas issues the international affairs commentator were here to talk to us they're good to have you back on the program marco so even though at the moment we just have a man who's ill in hospital and conflicting reports as to whether there is a toxin or not boris johnson is convinced there's a deliberate poisoning going ahead here is he jumping the gun is he being premature or are there any implications to that. well the implication is that boris has been tasked with. rigged flag against the russians this time so that might compare to taking a back seat or is it from one and angela merkel probably bears that she has been landed with the problem of time with forces in the west are quite keen on to legitimize russia so german relationship because of all stream to so one wonders

about the background through this but certainly boris has jumped to a lot of faster than he can run on this because though nothing has been established and the 1st thing we need to know is is there a base is best to gauge that is to say we need some transparency from openness from the german hospital which is currently looking into the state of mr. what it says it's going to launch a criminal probe until any medical causes from the valleys condition have been ruled out is that an adequate response do you think we're going to lose time in case there is any anything to ferry is going on. well there's no it's your time here because it's in the valley is in the german hospital and the time has lost is the time it takes for that german hospital to reveal what it's found there seems to be a basic conflict of view between the russian and the german hospitals the russian hospital has shared its view its russian doctors have appeared in public to make their views clear with the german hospital we've seen nothing really we've heard statements

from unknown individuals about using this word poison we have actually haven't seen a german doctor arrive on t.v. and and take responsibility for this alleged claim so we've been here before anyway we've got claim of blame by forces unknown russians usually the victim rushes russians accuse of being conspiratorial but in fact well hidden information loosely official secrets act to gag the conclusions of any investigations i had have been actually u.k. and u.s. side and if you try and reveal any of those conclusions you get. into a permanent. needle and where you can't speak ever again. given that we've got this medical discrepancy of what the berlin medics say that they found and what the russian medics say they didn't find in terms of sharing that information in order to be able to get some conclusion as to what has actually happened to mr novell need is politics going to get in the way of policing here and that the sharing isn't happening if this information. if there were something incriminating and i

would remind us all that even if mr bally has been poisoned which i sincerely hope he has not we would not know who the poison might be if there was such a person involved and if it was not some other calls but. if there is something in the way of poison that is genuinely revealed by the german sources i believe it would be a quite quickly however if there is no such smoking gun then i believe there will be this kind of person as with many other previous investigations into the russian claims you you get this thing will probably poisoned you as with the scruples for example and the probably as you just enough mud thrown against russia because you then wait for the next alleged incident and so some little problem leads and once your 5 probably use against the russian state then in the minds of the western public 5 probably is going to equal one certainty so i think that if the german

hospital does not completely reveal transparently what it has found and a medical person stands up and take responsibility for his conclusions then we can conclude that there is no smoking gun that there is nothing here but a load of spin designed to make the russians look bad again and again and again ok for now in london thanks for joining us again on r.t. thank you. human rights groups around korea facebook after a block of 1000000 strong protest in thailand that critical of the king of thailand are seen mass pro-democracy rallies with some calling for reform of the monarchy facebook says it's been pressured by the toil forat is however the social media giant has had no issues about youth or it is being challenged in other countries and i guess they have been having a look at that. this is an entirely new paradigm we're witnessing the birth of a new type of censorship customized tailored censorship what you say no longer

matters it no longer matters where you're from what matters is who you say it against. thailand has a very specific law it's called the less majestic and what it does is criminalize any negative speech towards the king all the queen or the heir or the 2nd there and so on so the rule really cannot be criticised by anyone if you dare criticize the queen's dress for example or the king's haircut you face 15 years in jail 15 years this now apparently includes international criticism so things work for example which just banned uprooted more crecy group of $1000000.00 people for hurting the king's feelings after careful review facebook has determined that we are compelled to restrict access to content which the thai government has deemed to be illegal 23rd century you can't criticize a person because his father gave him

a shiny crown and told him he was special having said that there are many many people in thailand who almost worship the rule family which is their right among their fans too in fact that is the u.s. secretary of state you know this is a long shares relationship surgery said. out of 200 years and i know we will remain great and good friends for the next 2 centuries as well we could report mr pompei of stark raving duplicity and hypocrisy after all mr pump arrows happy to cozy up to the saudi king for example it isn't dictators who regimes that mr pompei will facebook have a problem with it's where those autocrats are from. remember the united states government south thing itself or server what was happening in hong kong freedom justice liberty they shouted over and over again their

facebook promoted proved to more crecy groups and cracked down bad proof china groups a slew of them we causally working to detect and stop this type of activity because we don't want our services to be used to manipulate people the united states and other free nations will continue to protect our peoples from the long arm of beijing's authoritarianism i mentioned earlier customized censorship this is the result censorship tailored to a time and a place no one rule for all so you can fight for freedom so long as you're fighting for freedom from someone that the united states doesn't like if you're fighting for freedom from othello who's prepared to ruin your and your family's life because you wrote it mean comment about him well you can't do that see he is pump alles pow.

and here we are europe's last dictator they call him lucretia and co same story really a part of the population loves him a part of the population hates him and pump ale has a picture of them hugging each other really does have a collection not one they're still trying to decide by the way washington facebook is. this autocrat who is good for america and should be through the democracy groups under the bus and label them haters. who is at a disadvantage that his daddy see he didn't give them a crowd and say that it protects against rowdy peasants. or us secretary of state mike pompei are probably has more on his mind at the moment which friends he keeps because the democratic party is vowing to probe his appearance by video link at the republican national convention where he lived for donald trump this president has led bold initiatives in nearly every corner of the

world today because of the president's determination and leadership that isis caliphate is wiped out it's gone in just 2 weeks ago the president brokered a historic peace deal between israel and the united arab emirates this is the deal that our grandchildren will read about in their history books president trump has put his america 1st vision into action it may not have made him popular in every foreign capital but it's worked seems innocent enough the thing is by doing that pompei was apparently broken the very rules that he made for employees at the state department a memo the bans officials from endorsing a candidate at a convention rally or similar gathering but political analyst alessandro bruno believes that on this occasion probably had no choice. is violating. american called the hatch act which prevents officials of an administration to speak in favor of that administration or himself i believe wrote a letter. to his diplomatic stuff about

a month ago saying they should refrain from political activity of this kind this is not a diplomatic move but what about what is diplomatic about the trumpet ministration they risk by elating the hatch act because the potential benefits in voting terms are greater. another day and yet another anti-government rallies taking place in belarus protesters have once again packed into the center of men's because they continued to campaign against what they claimed was a rigged presidential election life to means now that our correspondent is seen a following all this for us in the past few days a course down of the opposition really not letting go of this. well indeed call in right now it's getting a bit dark here but the protesters behind me they have decided to light the flashes on their phones to make themselves visible so you can you can see the scale of this

protest about a few 100 people have decided to come out here in the central square of the bella russian capital and so well some of them have taken their dogs with them sort of walking their pets here and they're making their voices heard to the right of me there's an improvised podium and does a special person who is kind of steering the protest with the chance with the slogans you know all of them of course are calling on the resignation of the incumbent president of belarus alexander lukashenko and well but i won't go as far as saying that this that this country that belarus is torn by the protests by the opposing protests but right now almost this the anti government action has has been a daily routine here people have been showing up in numbers daily there was a huge a massive protest on sunday as the 10s of thousands of people showed up this is like a demo version of it now it's. smaller by the amount of about

a 1000 or so 1000 like about a 1000 times smaller but i mean of who is it is it is a day so people who have the business have their daily their daily business to attend to also pro-government protesters have been coming out in the streets as well but now we have a person here one of the protesters who is has agreed to talk to us who is going to tell me why he's. here and so on and so forth so hi thank you so much for agreeing to to and to me could you please shortly introduce yourself and tell me why you're here my name is roman i'm 26 years old i work in the tech sector here in belarus in a private company and i have been coming here for the past turned a half weeks a little bit exhausted but to all the people here are hopeful that this persistent protest to this peaceful protest percival will help us make some change in the country we're hoping 1st and foremost we're hopeful for the honest election which

where wear off so you've told me that you that you you work in the i.t. sector right it's a very powerful it's a very it's a very prominent sector in fact as far as i know it has huge tax breaks when it comes so are you concerned that if some of the changes that you are demanding here are you concerned that these changes might take these tax breaks away from you are you willing to perhaps i'm not saying that this is going to happen are you willing to pay a bit more maybe. i think yes we are ready and we're not concerned about that the company is for instance the company i work for is more concerned about the business environment right now because the oppressions the repressions against people the beatings the imprisonments they have impacted their view of the business fear here and here in belarus very much and a lot of businesses 1st of all are ready to get integrated to relocate and to move people to other countries because of this government policy that doesn't let us feel safe here in belarus are you following some of the opposition telegram

channels like nafta and so on and so forth here sure right now it's one of the most reliable sources of information that we can get because all the state propaganda doesn't lead any well and actual information in their channels so if you following a channel like next to for instance a couple of days ago it published a post essentially giving out personal details and linking to social me. of some of the young people who showed up at the opposition protest and excuse me of the probably pro-government protests i took to one of the girls and she essentially showed me thousands of messages with obscene language and so on and so forth do you think it was such a good idea for a reliable source of information as you put it to in fact to essentially docs a young girl like 21 go she's 21 years old she in fact had to leave her home she she's scared do you think this is something a reliable source of information should do well i'm opposed to that i don't do that

personally. i don't approve of that basically but we should understand that a telegram channel is not a professional media so to say and they are entitled to some mistakes of the a does begin in phases but the good they're doing for our country is right now a little bit bigger than the negative impact they might have occasionally they have more than 2000000 followers do you think that they should be held accountable for the mistakes they make i think will give a fair evaluation of their actions after everything is finished but right now it's a little bit of a chaotic time and people shouldn't be judged on minor mistakes when they're good they're doing is great or excuse me for a personal question are you married yes i am would you would how would you feel if your wife got more than 4000 messages calling her all sorts of words and wishing death upon her and her family and so on i wouldn't be happy about that obviously but i would be more scared if my wife was put into prison and beaten and harassed

and or possibly even raped which is our government doing right now it's much worse than any words that might arrive to her in messages ok roman thank you so much for agreeing to talk to me and i'm afraid we're running out of time i really appreciate your take on the take on events so this was this was roman and i really do appreciate his take now i think i'm going to wrap up because it is starting to rain and no one here wants to so. ok well. what's on it if anything happens in the next couple of hours rain or otherwise we'll be right back with you for the hour though eagles down of immense thank you. next a debate about britain's colonial past is making news again in the u.k. after the b.b.c. confirmed that it's removing the lyrics to to song and its flagship classical concert the problems 18th century song rule britannia has been criticized for its links to slavery while land of hope and glory penned in 1901 plugs of the british empire prime minister boris johnson though insists brits shouldn't be ashamed of their history. i think it's time we stopped cringing embarrassment about

our history about our traditions and about our culture and we stop this. bite of so for communication and witness i wanted to get that off my chest. b.b.c. says the drop because covert restrictions means that there won't be the usual flag waving a live audience to sing along as they've done in previous years here's some of the reaction that we've been hearing. prince of multicultural country has anthems written in the. early 18th century reflects of britain's imperial past so well and good maybe this week leading museums where they rightly belong but i think on a national broadcast we don't want to hear that sort of stuff and certainly that's only my background if you are black or asian or from one of the commonwealth countries then the implication that britons will never be slaves doesn't hold quite

true for you and neither your descendants and i think should almost everybody in the country likes that and they enjoyed this up in the one night a year of the last night of the drums missing going on since $8095.00 so that's when the problem started so it's a carnival culture it's a part of our heritage and they should state street really it's not the place of people who have just started working for the b.b.c. to decide that they can stop us singing britain's a multicultural country is not a country. a land of hope and glory how can we pay be patriotic to a country that formally because black british citizens as we saw it when ross county if we want to have a real debate about the nature of citizenship i'm more than prepared to help it but to try and suggest that this country treats everybody with equality before the lord is complete hogwash in fact we're an unequal society and a deeply racialized society hasn't been proven by research time and time again so

we're singing songs about. and then we need to find a new tune and you would signal with them that reflect the modern realities of britain in the 21st century in these countries in the united kingdom there is nothing going on it's the same as the east you know it's a kingdom it's one of the best places in the world the black and brown people to live it's not a racist country this now there is systemic racism simply isn't true look like our own i'm a london assembly member you've got i an indian home secretary you've got an indian chancellor of the exchequer yeah no i do they you know it's not all white people to say to black people this is a wonderful country no racism doesn't exist it's for black people to tell white people actually this is what we think a new well meaning member response of black people when they're surveyed by himself laurie and others in the post but like most movements he's a pretty nice remains a racist country so much like the sort of romantic. drivel that we just said

relation so this may be some sort of wonderful meritocracy of anti-racism going to b.b.c. culture reflected changing culture times and we see programs removed from the b.b.c. like love thy neighbor and god knows what else and there will be more of that to come up salute he sure and this is just another element of doubt that was something completely different i wouldn't agree with that but we're not talking about that we're talking about last night of the drum so shouldn't yeah look what i did for the b.b.c. once diversity find that you have diversity but you've got to have tradition in that you've got a city by british culture not every other culture. and that's what's so wrong about this ok that's the way i look so from moscow so far this wednesday thanks for watching we're going to be watching the whole next after went to have another hour to well that date for you in time they say see that.

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