honestly that i have done more for the african-american community than any president since abraham lincoln has black lives matter protests engulfed the city of can i show we look at how politicians are using the unrest in this year's election. chancellor merkel says russia's north stream 2 gas pipeline to germany must go ahead despite tensions over the alleged poisoning of prominent opposition figure alexina bounding. out a survey of british media finds muslims disproportionate coverage in terrorism stories despite all the groups being far more likely to commit attacks.

hello friday evening here in moscow where if you are welcome this is r.t. international and colin brown with the big stories am reaction the word across in this hour 1st the protests close to the white house where they attempted to shut down donald trump during his speech on the final night of the republican party convention with homes and chanting loudly hundreds tried to disrupt the events and a number carrying black life is not about me but that didn't stop the president from claiming that he's done more for black people than almost all of his predecessors. and i say very modestly that i have done more for the african-american community than any president since abraham lincoln our 1st republican president. and i have done more in 3 years for the black community then joe biden has done in 47 years. when i'm reelected the best is yet to come. well speech came as furious black lives matter

protesters once again turned out in the wake of sunday's police shooting of a black man they were we are about to show you the disturbing video of that incident as filmed by a possible. i. in terms of timing kind of more connects looks at how connections become a crucial point in the election reiss. cars bernie guns firing people looting images that have become all too familiar in the united states as of late anarchy in

action on the streets has got politicians pointing fingers at each other republicans are even staking their reelection efforts on a tough law and order stance saying that democratic governors have let the situation get out of hand results when failed to fish rules in cities like port with minneapolis chicago and new york made a conscious decision not to support law enforcement to buy woods and bloodshed we are seeing in these and other cities it isn't happening by chance it's a direct result of refusing to allow law enforcement to protect our communities leftist try to turn the meant of elements they want to cancel them. but i'm here to tell you these heroes can't be canceled from seattle and

portland to washington and new york democrat run cities across this country are being overrun by violent mobs those statements from the south dakota governor did not make it past leftist media which called for a reality check we will interject when we feel like there's something that's important and deliberate and very wrong that should be corrected just so that we feel responsible about our broadcast other news outlets got much the same for suggesting local authorities are responsible for the violence how shocked are we that 17 year olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would this goes beyond racism tucker carlson is advocating and defending murder how shocked are we that tucker carlson is praising a murderer as some kind of vigilante hero democrats are taking those blame claims and throwing them right back in the face of conservatives saying that they're the ones that ferment it they hate to begin with the question for us this concern is when are we going to make republicans do their jobs when do we continued sit idly

by and watch the sede burn to the ground. our nation is hurting we need leadership that will heal our wounds not continue to pour salt on them peaceful protest against police violence should not be met with more violence and yet that's exactly what the president called for after the death of george floyd and here at home as george full oid briana taylor and a never ending list of innocent people of color continue to be murdered stating the simple fact that a black life matters is still met with derision from the nation's highest office as media and politicians blame each other some us citizens are taking up arms on their own in juneau shit wisconsin a teenager said to worship the police went to a protest and opened fire on the crown 2 people were killed the local police then

shined in on their own saying that the victims were to blame because they were on the streets in violation of curfew laws but this is not a police action this is not the action i believe of those who set out to do protests it isn't all it is the persons who are involved after the legal time involved in illegal activity that brought violence to this community this teenager is not the only one right wing militia groups and black self-defense organizations have sprung up across the country while politicians point to thing or the situation on the streets is only getting worse across the country people are bracing for turbulent times ahead i think there's a political gain going on on the side and both sides you've got the democratic side trying to to blame the president for curing racial unrest and i don't know flowing through that and you've got you've got the republican side saying that especially the pin pointed the finger at democratic leaders and democratic city is that the

leadership there is not take me appropriate action. no law and order and so there needs to be a middle someplace we do need law and order we need to provide security and to see you for family security for our businesses especially small but i feel bad for small but they were sold here by the coronavirus and those who are wondering being impacted a lot on this violence in the unfortunately the real situation but both parties are using it in the political weapon. german chancellor's rejected calls to pull out of the north stream to gas pipeline project with russia it's in the wake of the alleged poisoning of the russian opposition figure alexina reporting next from berlin he has peter oliver. and surprisingly coronavirus dominated the chancellor's summer press conference but she did also have time to talk about bello roofs the ongoing dispute between greece and turkey in the eastern mediterranean.

proposals for quotas on women in senior positions in her christian democratic union party if you're wondering where chancellor merkel stands on that she's very much in favor there was time for a question on alexei no violently as well the russian opposition figure remains in a hospital here in berkeley and following an alleged poisoning angle merkel said germany was not in a position in order to clarify what had happened to alexei in the valley as it stood and would be waiting for a joint statement from the european union it's we're trying to clarify things in the new through our own abilities which are in fact limited when we have more clarity like in the case of miss this groupon who will try to forge a reaction on the european level aleck's in the valley has been here in berlin since last saturday he remains in an induced coma doctors at the shot at a hospital where he's being treated say that there remains no acute danger to his

life but that they can't tell what long term effects on. of this this illness will be on the opposition figure now his poisoning has prompted some to call on germany to ditch the north stream 2 gas pipeline project but i'm increasingly convinced the germany should pull out of the nord stream to project russia's president putin is turning increasingly into a dictator who persecutes opponents including by means of poisoning attempts the poisoning attack on the russian opposition leader must lead to targeted reaction the baltic sea nordstrom to should not go into operation the project which would take russian gas directly from russia into germany is a multi 1000000000 a euro or operation the german chancellor says it's going ahead as it stands. i think that we should be coupled these issues and in our opinion north ring 2 should be completed that chancellor merkel is steadfast in saying that germany's by

turn the energy security should not be politicized there is some interest from the united states and this is you would imagine the u.s. alternately wants to sell europe its own liquefied natural gas and not seen senators from the united states put forward sanctions against companies involved in building the gas line project the thing is is ultimately they want to sell their own liquefied natural gas which is more expensive and that doesn't seem like it's going to happen anytime soon this pipeline is going ahead despite the political tensions surrounding it form austrian foreign minister cameron can easily believe the chancellor merkel's doing the right thing and backing the pipeline project. nobody builds a pipeline just to n.r. somebody a pipeline is built because there is the man it's the 2nd part of the pipeline that was initiated in 2000 hi we saw this same argue man in those years

apart 100 fact at alland from north america was not yet commercial. we see a kind of replay of the arguments of 2005 nevertheless it was built and now there's a root cause and cause brain the situation i would say is the bit more different from it was 2 years ago and i don't see how the all that speaking notes which we have been mirroring from u.s. officials over the last 2 years are still well it into this environment of very low gas prices. a new report accuses the british media of disproportionately focusing on terror attacks carried out by muslims even though attacks carried out by white supremacists are near nazis are more frequent crimes perpetrated by muslims get 9 times the coverage the muslim council of britain did know both of the imbalance has improved since the christchurch and el paso attacks where muslims were the victims we discuss the findings with one of the authors. what we've done is not make

assumptions we have got very detailed analysis and statistics that we're prone from monitoring the media on a daily basis and looking at how they report on it and we've compared very similar attacks committed by so-called muslim perpetrators and those by the far right and white supremacists and found that there's been a huge inconsistency and difference in the way those attacks are are covered there's far more of a. willingness on the part of the media to use the term terra terrorist of terrorism exclusively for muslims and it's very rare that they use it for far. we see a rise of hate crimes you know even after christ's church when muslims were the victims the rates of hate crimes increased in britain and even in the coverage of christchurch we show that the media tried to find an angle which brought it back to

trying to blame the muslims so you know these attacks not as a result of muslim terrorist attacks all you know wrote the room so-called muslim group in gangs far right terror attacks are on the rise with muslims often the victims the mass shootings at the mosque in christchurch and the el paso attack in texas just to the most high profile examples of the along with the recent shooting of course in the should bar in germany in which 11 people died snow at the same time the number of attacks by muslims in western countries have been falling and experts attribute that to the recent deescalation of tensions in the middle east as it sounds far right extremists carry out almost 3 times more terror attacks in the west than islam as groups were more than 60 percent of terrorism instance are not attributed to any group at all however the disproportionate reporting of them does have consequences. organizations should have clear definitions of what terrorism is make them transparent and then be consistent in their use of then the

repercussions of this of not only in terms of hate crimes that increase against muslims but it's the impact this has on social media so when a mainstream organization makes this point it's amplified it new know and spread to millions and millions of people because the far right uses this kind of coverage to amplify their troops and their anti muslim rhetoric and so it's very dangerous. but as a limpet committee has sacked the head of the country's anti-doping agency rosado the committee's decision comes after an investigation exposed alleged financial violations committed by your regattas which he denies saskia taylor reports. well we all know that russian sport has had a bumpy couple of years and now another big development in the country sports world on friday it was announced that the chief of the russian and to agency were sardar as it's known has been dismissed now 56 year old you're in ghana's was appointed

director general of the body back in august 27000 so he ready hasn't been that long in the post but that said the decision didn't entirely come out of the blue given that earlier this month a recommendation for his dismissal was put forward by was solid just bought today we once again looked at the arguments made by the supervisory board hoods the report of the order and the general director yuri ganis have to carefully considering the arguments we decided to accept the recommendation to remove mr ganis the decision was taken unanimously so what's a lead to this while going as has been accused of overseeing serious financial fire nations not really came to light after a financial check comes down so the complete mess and the reliability often want to initially submitted by god as himself now some are saying that he used to agencies funds for english lessons for passing on taxis when he said he was a broad on

a business trip he was actually on holiday but that really all added up because it suggested that he appropriate around $110000000.00 rubles up to question of around $1500000.00 so not the key issue here are the rumors of abuse of rule of power and indeed of conflict of interest now for his part going to says that this was the wrong decision and he continues to deny any allegations saying there are an attempt not just to discredit him positively but also to undermine the efforts of building and rebuilding rather that international trust in the wake of the mass jumping on occasions against russian field and track athletes back in 20. 15 it's not clear to me on what grounds it's being recommended that i be fired or resigned as strongly denies the conclusions of the audit if the russian olympic and paralympic committees decide to fire me it will change our relations and aggravate the situation in russian sport just so we can quickly understand the role of result

and why this is such an important decision for so much business actually a link between the world anti-doping agency or wada and russia so it's crucial to communication twin short dialogue between home and abroad and to ensuring that russian support is represented on the international stage now i want to say in a statement recognizing excepted the decision to dismiss goddess and also at the same time reiterated the need for assad to remain an independent body and also added that the 2 agencies are in constant communication of contact about any to belet ments will have to wait and see who comes to fill goddesses shoes that's a decision that will likely be made within the next 6 months or so either way i think we can all agree that no one what envy him at that position because clearly a difficult time for russian sport so it's good tale of what we've got some different claims of nefarious performance enhancement

a little bit later on this time though by donald trump and his election rival joe biden will put it to the test after the break.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. again donald trump's officially accepted the republican party's nomination to run for a 2nd he pledged to make america safer and stronger entering a speech that wrapped up the party's convention but opponents say the event ignore the present volatile reality on the ground. well i think the convention to this point has been spectacular especially when you put it up against the fiasco that was the democratic convention last week i think you know i i feel for both the

producers of both parties to have a virtual convention is tough to do you don't get the energy from the from the audience you don't get the pause lines you don't get the standing ovation so it's tough but i think the speakers this week have been spectacular from herschel walker on the very 1st night to the speakers last night the people that that know president trump and were able to speak directly to the american people about who he is as an individual i think that was very powerful you know if i put on the moon for the last 2 years i just dropped in today 'd geez i would i would never know that we have 11000000 people unemployed we have about 180000 people who died of this virus with 1100 a day i would not know at all that she not only were unemployed but we have about 8000000 households that face a vixen or foreclosure in the next 60 days of i went to a church of scientology maybe don't ask me why i had you know i got there it was l.

ron hubbard and there was apostles and you know i got to go to the. there was an alternative reality at the same time the rodney king riots were going on in l.a. and that was perfect to me well the country is essentially facing these existential threats you hear nothing about they use the word covert and 6 times in the last 2 days for all the speakers we heard nothing about 10000000 unemployed we heard nothing about these and we heard nothing about what he has done to enhance our suppress that this is bread and circus would donald trump does best he's not a president he's a game show reality show host and he's fabulous at it honestly i watched most of the democrat debate and i didn't hear one person talk about the riots in democrat cities and democrat states around the country i didn't hear the fact that these democrat mayors every one of them seattle portland chicago they've all endorsed joe biden so if you want to talk about the devastation that's happening in america look at the democrats look at what they are doing to america by encouraging this and supporting these riots and not bringing down now working with the president to

bring in national guard when the president actually wanted to help them and bring put down these riots they said no we'll take care of it ourselves and then the city councils in those democrat cities voted to defund the presidents and allow the rioters to continue to have a free wheeling. right to just go and destroy their towns that they live in that's not trump spot but interviewed donald trump many times i understand who he is what he's going to do is he's going to do some rigamarole the obvious skates everything that's gone on in the last 6 months and then he'll just go into the you know tantrum that works that it would all be better if i could just have more of this all would be better if i have more of this it's all the great if what we would just get rid of all these left wingers and let's forget about everything that's gone on and that's what he's good at recently the president paid a red complement to his election rival joe biden saying he did ok in his debate back in the spring with democratic rivals but he saw this trumping trump. couldn't

resist a little dig and question whether biden's performance at bain and hobbes. knew better than what some of those rumors debates he was so big he wasn't incoherent. and against bernie he was. and were calling for a drug test. is not all there everybody knows it and i like the running it gets people that are weak mentally i think joe is that we could step here. sleepy joe. go to joe 3033 poll he says he's great to be here. back here please please. you know we try to do nothing in iraq is not working is for an hour

and to try to meet in iran since he's may be tried in ukraine. i am very willing to american public judge my physical mental so my physical as well as my mental field fitness why the hell would i take a test. and that's like saying you know before you on this program you take a test where you're taking cocaine or not when you check out. my oakley now go and take a look at the bar inches on the oranges of the. investigation he performs 1870000 tests a day so that's 1000000 870000 1000000 tests. person . woman may end camera. t.v. .

some other world headlines for you now japan's longest serving prime minister has announced he's stepping down since he has been in the job since 2012 and is blaming health issues for his decision he expressed regret of failing to achieve a peace deal with russia the 2 states never signed an agreement due to a continued territorial dispute over the current violence they think back to the 2nd world war. unprecedented storms in pakistan's biggest city corruption has left at least 19 people dead it comes off the highest ever daily rainfall was recorded on thursday roads have been flooded stores forced to close and homes left without power in the storm. several people have reportedly been killed in a motorcycle bombing in the syrian city of ras al-ain near the border with turkey a number of those injured are said to be in a critical condition the explosion left buildings in vehicles badly damaged.

with flights grounded and borders closed the global pandemics left thousands of people stranded all over the world but 2 japanese honeymooners say it resulted in the best days of their lives. we did expect some media attention as a japanese couple stranded in cape verde but never did we dream of becoming cape verde olympic ambassadors. never invited back at verdi's olympic committee to watch the tokyo games and they offered us 3 or even 4 tickets because we might have a baby or twins by then. the

airport is still closed and even if it reopened this month i want to fulfill my task of shooting pictures for the olympic committee before we leave because i'm not sure i ever be so lucky to be given such a job my main focus now is to make a promotional tourism video for cape verde if my work is recognized officially i would love to visit other islands of cape verde and create even more videos. where there's a will there's a way that's the way it looks from moscow this outlook is up on you tube more of our stories programs and video news for you there now that from a column break in the team here at r.t. h.q. thanks for watching. the oprah show here they are so being you. know yes for all of the

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