russia children's families wait. protests turned violent as demonstrators defy a curfew in the u.s. city of it comes after police shot a black man there reportedly leaving him paralyzed. the british prime minister george 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 the facebook blocks a group from thailand criticizing the king we look at how the social media giant picks and chooses who it supports.

their life from midnight here in moscow now thursday the 26th of august i'm calling right taking you through this to can osha to help police support them tonight that's off the hundreds of protesters that defied a curfew on tuesday night which was designed to bring an end to the 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 a 3rd was injured within the past few hours a 17 year old's been charged with 1st degree intentional homicide. that's. a whole other.

thing. or expensive and those things like that you can hear people talking about me . it's a big issue being shy. of record here. and making some sort of announcement at exactly but. nothing about plants and put on the gas mask. on the playing and. i think the crowd is gradually moved back to the car. if. you can see the pepper hall the 1st thing one of her friends. her brother holds. people close to him with. a look

behind me. thank you. one day back to sunday and what led to days of all going all right but be aware that this is upsetting video of what happened on sunday it shows police shooting jacob blake from behind his family say the 29 year old is now paralyzed from the waist down i. i t. america political commentator of interest says he's not surprised by the protests. i'm sure 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

institutionalism without really addressing it without really you know taking it to task and really changing the culture and the nature of 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 but never happens and there's also agro why can osha police still don't have body cameras which could shed more light on what actually happened despite city authorities approving body cams way back in 2017 supplies are said to be delayed and still won't be ready for another 2 years body cameras in wisconsin are consistent as well. as don't have them in other parts of the state and already have to wear them they must also keep recordings for months in case an investigation is needed. because ben swum says that would've 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 of 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 sack we 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 that 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 because the camera video that we see from a distance is not the whole story it's a snap at 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. ok live now to political commentator and see brian logan high there and say welcome back to. talking about a place of 100000 people yet from sunday to now after that horrendous video has been shared so widely we've gone from a peaceful city to one where you've got calls confronting protesters hundreds of national guard on the way and a curfew being defied you surprised at how quickly this is escalated. not at all not really because of the whole georgia florida effect i guess you would call it as soon as something happens doesn't really matter who's there for who did it right who dare wrong there's going to be an immediate reaction for a variety of different reasons people are out there trying to do people are out there trying to rally it to put in different kinds of political ideology so there's

no surprise that it's happening so quickly because it's pretty much doubt to be this way in many states unfortunately so if this could have been predicted that it could go this bad what could the authorities have done because equally if they'd have come down hard to try and head off and he significant unrest early on then that would have been seen as as quelling protests of people who are very angry at what happened. yeah i mean is that what they could have been doing because like you say it could have been seen as if the words he's trying to say and trying to violate so rights constitutional rights and and also what happened so quickly as soon as the video was seen entered it was immediately. actually and the police couldn't even act as quickly as the video was. and then there was just an immediate right so there's not much they could have actually been doing i mean it's time to stop things now but they're still going to be so we're proud of what was going on knowing there is still going to be a element of the race because some people are going to go out there and do it

regardless what about dealing with police conduct 20 twentieth's it's sad to say that this is now just the latest 9 jacob's name is just the latest in a series of similar incidents in the u.s. what can be done then to tackle the police this is a question that gets asked every time i know but now that we all so many incidents in this happening what can be done to tackle police behavior where there's not actually an issue with police behavior the issue is with civilian behavior and also overreaction from people that don't know exactly what is going knowing that is the actual problem the police are actually doing very well i mean there are plenty of body warning cameras are your previous person talk about we need more body more in cameras world there was a body more in camera in the case of george clooney they didn't stop it being that being entire nation being taken over by this whole be a limb rhetoric ok and when it cameras came out when it came out people still had it before i could be married to people are going to buy it you don't even really

care knowing it doesn't matter if it's true or false in this particular case when you know she was going to be in and we police in general there's not actually an issue there's an issue with people trying to make it an issue to serve their own political purposes each town is different of course but the basis of each of these problems there are many similarities between them how is this going to play out then you've got. city you've got police who again going to be under fire from angry protesters who again going to try and keep the peace it's not a problem that they've got how it's going to play out in. well it all depends on what the local authorities do and way the federal government is allowed to do if they're able to bring in a national guard and calm things down i think maybe things kind of die off pretty soon but it's not been it's going to be a ongoing issue like it is in seattle washington portland oregon i mean it's all about just a local response and also maybe even a national response if they are allowed that is the key word because of not really being allowed to do anything over on the left coast the lane portland oregon.

to say that it does look like it's lining up to be another tense night in wisconsin for now though political commentator anthony brown logan thanks for joining us again on. thank you. another day and yet another anti-government rallies taking place in belarus protesters again packing into the center of men's because they continued to campaign against what they claimed was a rigged presidential election r.t.c. goes down of a small from the capital. 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 better russian capital and so while 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 there's 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 like about a 1000 times smaller but i mean of course it is it is a day so people have 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 me could you please shortly introduce yourself and tell me why you're here my

name is ron 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 if you fall in the channel like nafta for instance a couple of days ago it published a post essentially giving out personal details and linking to social media 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 do 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 docks a young girl like 21 years she's for 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 what you would do 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. british prime ministers join the growing chorus of international voices demanding an investigation into the alleged poisoning of russian opposition activists alexina valley but before any probes even have a chance to get going boris johnson's already stating as fact that novell 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 alexina valmy 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 novelli 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 consequent 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 are grounds to launch an investigation as far as they're concerned that 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 a 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 pollution. the substance of the statements of discontent they should come officially and not from the mass media of the hospital in all that skin russia that 1st treated alexei navalny carried out tests to see if they could find any toxins in his system 1st off 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 alexei navalny system as it stands at the moment though when it comes to the condition of the legs in the filename 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. we discussed what might be behind

the call for an investigation with geo political analyst and consultant rainer office. we are in the. politics of geopolitics and therefore the wording selected by different politicians needs to be weighed. before the background of political intentions are rather than facts and i think we see it here line here that great britain has a certain interest of. damaging the reputation of russia and in the us people case 2 years ago we have never seem to hear evidence of what was alleged in that time the poisoning of well i just see. some of certain case of a certain pattern which. fits into the overall framing which has been built

concerning russia it's. cruel great gmo of which. its opponents or kills its opponents. you know without tea from moscow on the way the u.k.'s big annual classical sing along well. brits usually belt out to the country's most patrick songs but no they shared the b.b.c.'s dropping the direct sparking a culture out centered on covert and colonialism as we discuss among all stories after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on offense period dramatic development . and going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. welcome back human rights groups around great facebook after a blocked a 1000000 strong protest in thailand that's critical of the king thailand say mass

pro-democracy democracy rallies with some calling for reform of the monarchy facebook though says it's been pressured by the tie or thora this thing is the social media giants have no issues about authorities being challenged in other countries right because there. 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 all the 2nd there and so on so the rule family cannot be criticised by anyone if you criticize the queen's dress for example the king's haircut you face 15 years in jail 15

years this now apparently includes international criticism so on facebook for example which just banned approved more chrissy group of 1000000 people for hurting the king's feelings after careful review facebook has determined that we are. impelled to restrict access to content which the thai government has deemed to be illegal 23rd said. 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 we tease them right among their fans too in fact he's the u.s. secretary of state you know this is a long shares relationship shows a set 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 stark raving duplicity and hypocrisy

after all miss the pump arrows happy to cozy up to the saudi king for example it is of 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 all serve what was happening in hong kong freedom justice liberty they shouted over and over again their facebook promoted proved democracy groups and cracked down bad procida groups a slew of them we costly 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 a mean comment about him well you can't do that see he is pumping his pal. and here we are europe's last dictator they call him lucretia 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 an autocrat who is good for america and should be through the prove democracy groups under the bus and label them haters. who is at

a disadvantage though his daddy see he didn't give them a crowd and say that it protects against rowdy peasants. british health workers have marched on whitehall in central london on wednesday evening demanding more pay. they claim they deserve better after putting their lives on the line at the height of the covert crisis britain recorded the worst level of coronavirus deaths in europe with over 41000 lives lost the pandemic stretched the state run national health service to its limits earlier this month medics held similar demonstrations in 40 towns and cities across the country earlier we talked to nurse who took part in today's protest. boyce is a not been heard on see anything that any of the unions are doing was absolutely nothing i was saying that the unions of average evidence and research papers and

all souls but none of them attack you male action to some who are the government that predict in that way and i have another one you know i ain't seen if you think that we're going to go back on the battlefield of our section i'm sorry it's not really worth risking our lives to go and. when we're actually in ourselves at risk too many of our colleagues at the white specially the black nurses. you cannot expect to send us back on our field without actually unfortunately a lot of us who are not working that. debate about britain's colonial past is making news again in the u.k. after the b.b.c. confirmed its removing the lyrics to 2 patriotic songs at 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 $1001.00 plugs the british

empire promised to boris johnson though insists the brits should not be ashamed of the history. i think it's time we stopped cringing embarrassment about our history about our traditions and our culture and we stop these. pirates so for communication and witness i want to get that off my chest. the b.b.c. says the lyrics were dropped because covert restrictions means there won't be the usual flag waving live audience to sing the songs as they have done in so many previous he is here's some of the reaction we've been airing. prince of multicultural country there's anthems written in the. early 18th century critics of britain's imperial past so well and good maybe this reclaiming museums where they rightly belong but i think on the national broadcast we don't want to hear that sort of stuff and certainly as somebody my background if you are black or asian or from one of the commonwealth countries then the implication that brits will never

be slaves doesn't hold quite true for you and neither your descendants and i think almost everybody in the country likes that and they enjoy this up in the one now it's a year of the last night of the problems it's been 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 really it's not the place of people who have just started working for the b.b.c. to just state that they couldn't stop us singing britain's a multicultural country is not the country. land of hope and glory how can we pay be patriotic to a country that formally deport black pretty citizens as we saw it when ross county we want to have a real debate about the nature of citizenship more than prepared to happen 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 doesn't mean proven by research time and time again

singing songs about touching 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 this country in the united kingdom there is nothing going on it's the same as these 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 narrative that there is systemic racism simply isn't true look like go on i'm a london assembly member in. oh i an indian secretary you've got in india chancellor of the exchequer yeah no i do that you know it's not all white people to say to black people this is a when the focus intrigues you know racism doesn't exist it's about people white people actually this is what we think and the overwhelming response of black people when they surveyed by story and all those in the post but like most of movements

he's a pretty nice remains a racist country so much like the sort of romantic. drivel that we just said the relation to this being some sort of wonderful meritocracy of anti-racism in the b.b.c. culture reflected changing culture of the times and we see programmes removed from the b.b.c. like look i'd neighbor and god knows what else and there will be more of that to come up saluki show and this is just another element on top that was something completely different i wouldn't agree with that we're not talking about but we're talking about last night the front solution and yeah this one is the b.b.c. one starburst do you find that you have diversity but you've got a tradition in that you've got a city by british culture not every other culture. and that's what's so wrong about this. i trotted news for this hour we've got plenty more stories on lining of the bigger picture by finding us on you tube or downloading our app more great programs for you on the way in your part of the world of the back here in around half an

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