thanks very much for your time brian castner. thank you people i'm allowing voting for the next president it's a rerun of last year's election which was and now by the constitutional court due to ballot rigging incumbent president putin the 30 who tried to stop the rerun but the supreme court turned down his appeal to its members and n.g.o.s volunteered to serve as how to muntasser is covering this for us from holiday. in the big cities along. the long lines and things are going with italy in the smaller towns and in some rural areas some polling stations opened late but eventually got started again things they seem to be going. to violence here and there but nothing really significant what's interesting is that because the coronavirus endemic internationalization observant unable to come in to these elections so you have a lot of church officials who are on the ground at the polling stations and the church very respected in malawi people trust to respect the church and the hope of church remains neutral one of concern that peopl

confidence in the government because this problem has been around for years who get the feeling that castner's actions are a bit opportunistic because it is only what happened in the u.s. that finally made them do something to increase their credibility but we don't know if in the end things will change that the policeman will be better trained or of the situation with discrimination and racism will finally be taken seriously because i'm not so tin that something will change i think that the measures taken by the government a more aimed at calming down the people than by the solving the problem of racism and put real publicists in place and police unions have criticised the changes there are political announcements from that there is the reality on the grounds of the impression do is that everyone is not. the police who are. we use the strangle who were faced with an individual who is resisting arrest so what will we do instead while the tribute here is to george floyd france is also remembering its own who died 2 more families claim of questionable circumstances and there is anger over accusa

for more, we're joined by brian castner, amnesty internanation's senior crisis advisor on arms and militaryrations. welcome to democracy now! if you could lay out for us the global usese of tear gas and thn we w will talk about t the unitd states. >> sure. i i think we he seseen with h te protests around the world, esespecially we sougught in e beginning -- the end of last year, there were protests all over the world, erect, hongng kokong, latin america, andnd for many of those cases, tear used by police. what w we saw is thibrbroad tre, not just being used, but i it is being misused, anand how quicy it i is being ed. unfofortunately, many y of t tys of incidents, some of the worst misuse we have seen overseas, we are now seeing in the united states as well. one is using tear gas in confined spaces, where people are trapped, where they can't get away from the tear gas. we saw this in hong kong but we've also seen it in seattle, philadelphia, a terrible incicident where people were trapped against a highway embankment and could not get over a fence. we have also seen where tear gas grenades

let's hear it all more now from brian castner he's amnesties senior crisis advisor on a military operations and says the evidence against the us police is overwhelming i think that actually the visibility is a huge part of this and the fact that there has not been widespread protests like this in the united states with everyone having a smartphone and quite the way they do even in the last 6 years since ferguson you know there's been such an increase in the number of phones the streaming technology the social media i think that there's just a we're seeing far more than we used to and what's really shocking i think is just the volume of videos and the volume of of content that we saw coming out of these protests and how we didn't really have to look too hard it was actually the bigger challenge was sorting through it all because there was just so much going on with pepper spray and tear gas and flash bangs and pepper balls really everywhere we looked in the last say 1510 years there's been a lot of purchases of these impact grenades these like sponge rounds in marking rounds baton rounds the