by the reportedly giving cash the central american states that in a bid to slow the influx of migrants a move that's been slammed by critics at home is an insult to americans in the. state of emergency declared in minnesota where rioters flouted a curfew for a 2nd night running after a police officer shot dead a black man. very good morning to you thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. italian restaurant owners are demanding an exit from the covert lockdown they say they could no longer afford to stay closed clashes broke out at north arise protesting right. to be. rally was organized by the open movement which advocates for loosening lockdown restrictions on reopening businesses. far right group whose members threw smug. police protester was injured another restive italy is a zcode with distractions in most regions following a nice the lockdown but restaurants remain closed at least until the end of april takeout delivery services are permitted we spoke to some of the protest in business this. m.o. they fear the anger of the people but the people are angry for a reason ther

central america that have free market economies is certainly not a new concept in fact the u.s. state department has been showering the region with money for decades $750000000.00 was provided to central american countries between 20142017 now the stated goals of all that foreign aid was roughly the same as what biden is proposing and people remained poor desperate and they continued fleeing 2019 donald trump took the dramatic move of halting us aid so can we continue to just throw money at a problem and expect it to eventually be solved by the will soon be celebrating his 100th day in office and he's got a major crisis on his hands with no end in sight they look up and art see new york . second day of race riots in the u.s. state of minnesota see national guard troops to pull to the streets of brooklyn sent. thank you i don't know how i. hundreds gathered outside the local police station in violation of a curfew which had been imposed as demonstrations preval and several area areas were looted and according to police protesters threw concrete blocks and offices reported leaving at least one injured police dispersed the crowd firing tear gas and flash grenades the state of emergency has also b

been reportedly giving cash to central american states and. critics at home is an insult to americans in need. of the belgians he's declared minnesota where the curfew for a 2nd night in a row the police officer a black. father thanks for joining us is. telling business owners are demanding an exit from the covert lock down saying that they can no longer afford to remain closed clashes broke out at an unauthorized protest in. the open movement which advocates for loosening restrictions on reopening businesses joined by far right groups. members threw smoke bombs police and protester was injured another arrested at least distractions in most regions following an easter lockdown restaurants there remain closed at least to the end of april only take out a delivery services are permitted we spoke with some of the protesting business owners. the moment they fear the anger of the people but the people are angry for a reason there are serious reasons not enough attention is being paid to important issues affecting the sector they have been hit by wro

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central america that have free market economies is certainly not a new concept in fact the u.s. state department has been showering the region with money for decades $750000000.00 was provided to central american countries between 20142017 now the stated goals of all that foreign aid was roughly the same as what biden is proposing and people remained poor desperate and they continued fleeing 2019 donald trump took the dramatic move of halting us aid so can we continue to just throw money at a problem and expect it to eventually be solved by will soon be celebrating his 100th day in office and he's got a major crisis on his hands with no end in sight. art see new york. second day of violent race riots in the u.s. state of minnesota has seen the city of brooklyn center flooded with national guard troops from the state of emergency declared in west follows the fatal shooting of a gun police officer. pulled them over who could or personal opinion from the room or. my brother in law who lied because they were. known to look like from the right. rocks and other objects thrown at the police department there were reports of shots fired in the area of the police department. the little one all of the al

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central america that have free market economies is certainly not a new concept in fact the u.s. state department has been showering the region with money for decades $750000000.00 was provided to central american countries between 20142017 now the stated goals of all that foreign aid was roughly the same as what biden is proposing and people remained poor desperate and they continued fleeing 2019 donald trump took the dramatic move of halting u.s. aid so can we continue to just throw money at a problem and expect it to eventually be solved by will soon be celebrating his 100th day in office and he's got a major crisis on his hands with no end in sight they look up and art see new york . stuff during a nation programs and don'ts about some of the jobs on offer led to a runs in vaccine truism among europeans with some people traveling here to russia to get into it. micha do flow is a lawyer from leon and he has his own opinion about the vaccine situation of holes who will mean there are currently enough vaccines in france and not everyone can get vaccinated where they want to without waiting 1st of all i don't trust the vaccines offered to us whether it's the american vaccine or britain's astra

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central america that have free market economies is certainly not a new concept in fact the u.s. state department has been showering the region with money for decades $750000000.00 was provided to central american countries between 20142017 now the stated goals of all that foreign aid was roughly the same as what biden is proposing and people remained poor desperate and they continued fleeing 2019 donald trump took the dramatic move of halting u.s. aid so can we continue to just throw money at a problem and expect it to eventually be solved biden will soon be celebrating his 100th day in office and he's got a major crisis on his hands with no end in sight they look up and ard see new york . another story we're closely following today japan's government has announced its plumbing to dump contaminated water from the fukushima nuclear power plant into the pacific ocean more than a 1000000 tons will be released now the process will only begin some 2 years time is expected to take decades to complete the water will be filtered diluted to reportedly safe levels 1st know the move has provoked from you bring countries. despite doubts and opposition from home and abroad japan has unilaterally decided to

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them to the program we begin in the central american states of ecuador were voters are choosing between 2 very different contenders to become the new president voting has ended and ballots are being counted exit polls suggest it's a close race the center right candidate is the veteran conservative banker guillermo laso has socialist rival as the young left wing economist andress are rows voting has taken place under strict public health restrictions because of a surge in coronavirus cases so. slow economic growth and austerity measures have been weighing on living standards there. will be a corresponding yonder we're at is following the elections in the ecuadorian capital quito johann welcome polls have closed and it looks like it's going to be a close call doesn't it. it is it is yes it looks like a very tight result polls exit polls cover already been announced just minutes ago and one of them states right if we can do that you're more lost so is supposed to win this election he would be leading for 5 percent this election all around the rest aroused these are non official results tha

the attempted to create the central american common market which was an economic integration scheme. you see it also in the kind of free trade agreement that the united statess with central american countries and that includes the dominican republic to treat the area as a zone as opposed to individual countries. i think that just as simone, collaborator of south america from spanish colonialism back in the 19th century wanted to ignite south america certainly as one entity and those dreams have been there for a long time and they come up against the ideas of sovereignty a individual states that were carved out of the spanish empire at the time of independence, more or less in the 18 twenties. so i don't think that one overarching government is very realistic goal at this point. there's too much nationalism, too much sense of sovereignty, national identity as small as the country's can be very very strong differences between say costa rica and guatemala and nicaragua. el salvador in terms of how people see themselves. the language, the slang and the customs. the role of indigenous populations as an important part of the national identity as it is in guatemal

central american common market, and economic integration scheme. you also see it in the kind of free-trade agreement the united states has with central american countriesnd that includes the dominican republic, to treat the area as a zone as opposed to individual countries. i think that, just as simone boulevard, the liberator -- bolivar wanted to unite south america, certainly as one entity, those dreams have been there a long time. and they've come up against the ideas of sovereignty of individual nationstates that were carved out of the spanish empire back at the time of independence more or less in the 1820's. so i don't think that one overarching government is a very realistic goal at this point. there's too much nationalism, too much sense of sovereignty, of national identity. as small as the countries can be, there are very strong differences between say costa rica and guatemala and nicaragua. el salvador in terms of how people see themselves, the language, the slang, the customs, the role of indigenous populations as an important part of the national identity as it is in guatemala. i just don't think it is very realistic, although those dreams

nothing to do with it washington says it's looking to create legal ways for central american migrants to reach the united states president biden is working to reshape u.s. border policy amid a sharp rise in crossings by undocumented migrants authorities caught more than 170000 in march alone in special envoy is meeting leaders in the region. the type of restraint used by a police officer charged with killing george floyd is come under scrutiny in the u.s. court the 7th day of the trial in minneapolis focused on derrick shove and use of force and how officers should deescalate crisis situations ellen fisher was there and said this report. i cite the court activist the reverend al sharpton led the floyd family in prayer we are now shadows of courthouse praying for justice in sight crucial evidence from a police use of force instructor a man who's taught hundreds of police officers including derrick shove an issue the way george floyd was pinned to the ground in may last year not to recognize police technique said live tenant johnny mercer something that could cause trouble breathing in the neck would be something

given the central role that the united states plays in backing israel seems to me. it's all americans have a right to question the to kill or israeli policies and in particular the prolonged occupation the fact that the palestinian people have been kept without a state and without any political rights for decades now in the end this comes down to a battle for the minds of american people a battle of the stories they told to make sense of this conflict about love of perception the more americans are able to see the reality of occupation with their own eyes to see images of routine daily violence of the repression and you may the never make their way into mainstream news the more they'll question the image of israel as this tiny little david up against the bullying arab goliath and start to wonder if it's actually the outcome palestinians who might be the real davids here . and that starts becoming the dominant perception here in the u.s. or bats or off it all comes down to american public perception. when the news breaks here in windsor with defeat me he says the main breach completely

reporting all of the convicted offenders who have abused children both in the united states and in mexico and central american countries that are being caught at the border but if you look at texas being overwhelmed by this unaccompanied minor crisis, there are a number of people thousands of people that are getting away in places like arizona. those are the bad guys who want to do the country harm who are struggling drugs into the country going into midwestern states that have opioid crisis. this is a lazy argument to say this is about white supremacy breed this is an international border. it's been described as sovereignty is completely broken down on the southern border but it's absolute true. for her to just throw out the old white supremacy line is contrary to the facts of the people of been set up to fail which is the border patrol agents in this case. >> is just the definition of the word surge is what it means, joe, she also went on later to talk about an imperialism crisis. she said it's not an immigration it's imperialism i think she was really going to hit a woke bingo there she nailed it. here's m

united states special envoy to central american countries has been meeting the region's leaders promising to address the root causes of undocumented migration the number of people heading to the u.s. border has dramatically increased since joe biden became president border officials apprehended more than 170000 people last month alone a 71 percent increase from february and more than 10 percent of them were unaccompanied children when iraq will has more from mexico city. this meeting between u.s. and guatemalan officials is being seen as the official start of a new strategy by the u.s. government aimed at reducing the number of migrants fleeing central america the biden administration's special envoy to the region the capital sunita says the white house wants to create legal ways for migrants to reach the u.s. at the set i want to emphasize that the u.s. border is closed we are here to also talk about the need and the efforts of the white house to create legal means for migration so that people do not have to use irregular and dangerous routes we also want to make sure that they are ways

central american common market, and economic integration scheme. you also see it in the kind of free-trade agreement the united states has with central american countriescludes the dominican republic, to treat the area as a zone as opposed to individual countries. i think that, just as simone boulevard, the liberator -- bolivar wanted to unite south america, certainly as one entity, those dreams have been there a long time. and they've come up against the ideas of sovereignty of individual nationstates that were carved out of the spanish empire back at the time of independence more or less in the 1820's. so i don't think that one overarching government is a very realistic goal at this point. there's too much nationalism, too much sense of sovereignty, of national identity. as small as the countries can be, there are very strong differences between say costa rica and guatemala and nicaragua. el salvador in terms of how people see themselves, the language, the slang, the customs, the role of indigenous populations as an important part of the national identity as it is in guatemala. i just don't think it is very realistic, although those dreams of unifica

the united states has a very consistent history of promoting the interests of foreign investors over the interests of the central american poor and the economic development model. that biden is promoting is the very same one based on inviting in and protecting the interests of foreign investors not on the be distributive model that could actually help the condition of the poor in central america who are we have to automatically invoke your father but then why is it that on mainstream us television channels which have been covering the border caps was none of this in their coverage even as a context you know the sentence. well there's a couple of different reasons why it is that journalism is about the man bites dog story journalists really don't have the in the mainstream media the capacity the time to delve into deep research about why things are happening and you know i went to journalism school. for a year and basically what i learned there is how to write a story when you don't know anything about the topic that's unfortunate but that's how mainstream journalism often works but the other thing is that assumptions abo

asylum agreements that we had with mexico to remain in mexico and central american countries, we kept these applicants outside the united states the trump administration with biden reversing these policies, he's created a boondoggle for the traffickers where they exploit the children. they separate them from their parents in central america and take them up this dangerous journey. the latest figures i got on what they're making is $15 million a day and half a billion just this month alone. this is a victory for the traffickers and a very bad defeat for the children. >> martha: there was a time in the prior administration when there was a deal with mexico to keep people from coming through their country, to hold them at the guatemala border. prevented some of this very dangerous travel. everybody wants people to be able to find their way here if they have legitimate asylum claims. there's a way to do that legally. that would be to come through the checkpoints and people have done that over the course of generations. you look at this child. it just tears at your heart. so one of the things that we've shown a lot of is the gap in

in fact going on for months mainly it's the central government of under the americans the chancellor on the one hand and on the other side the 16 federal states and their leaders who in fact have. the power to decide what happens in their regions and what i'm going to america has always been for stricter measures the regional leaders have resisted that and that continues to this day at the moment there are discussions about imposing a central government lockdown a got a new law is likely to be passed for that in this coming week but there's still resistance from the regions so it's not quite clear to what extent i'm going to america is able to push through what she really would like to do a hard lockdown i guess only time will tell but it's got correspondents front thank you. now to some other developments in that pandemic india recorded more than 200 in their t. 1000 new cases on saturday that's more than 3 times the daily case number in the u.s. the world's worst hit nation francis has given his 1st in person sunday bless and in the vatican after weeks of lockdown. italy is set to begin easing restrictions later this month israelis no longe

has made these agreements with central american nations i mean should there be surprise at the numbers being deployed by those nation states. i think it shows once again how much continuity there is between the by did ministrations policies on migration and the trumpet ministrations policy on migration it's true as you mentioned there have been a spike in numbers at least of encounters at the border and these could be repeat repeat attempts at seeking asylum in the us but joe biden has retained the most draconian of the trump era policies notably title $42.00 which prevents the vast majority of asylum seekers and refugees from seeking due process in complete violation of international and domestic law only biden is allowing in unaccompanied children and rather reluctantly allowing in families with young children or those trying to pressure mexico to to keep those families with young children in mexico but the numbers that we got today from the white house no confirmation from any of the countries involved that mexico now has 10000 troops on the southern border that's notable because the numbers we got from mexico itself at

you send money to central americans, more people smuggled to the united states.> dana: always good to be with you. i'm sure we'll see you again this week. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> trace: almost three weeks since vice president harris tapped to lead efforts to deal with the crisis at the southern border. the v.p. has yet to visit the area, has not laid out a plan or had a press conference how to deal with the situation. our next guest is a columnist at the "new york post" and slams her for her lack of action. she responds on the absurd. miranda devine. great to see you as always. back in 2019 when she was on the campaign trail you had kamala harris saying things like i will release children from cages. i will get rid of private detention centers. the wall is a waste of taxpayer money. now they've got a problem. she had a plan back then and now that plan has kind of fallen apart and the next move is very unclear. your thoughts. >> good morning, trace. it was incredibly obvious this was going to happen. it was predicted, predictable and they were warne

the data they do not want you to know. 86%, 86-89% of central americans claim asylum never get in the u.s. courts but release into the united states less than 3% of the hundred of thousands ordered to remove to have left so president trump said look at 90% are coming committing fraud and they get removed and only 3% leave, let's do this remain in mexico program where they are not being released. people attack that like it's a terrible program but let me tell you something, people are still getting asylum hearings but waiting but how many women get raped if present from secure that border? for many children didn't die because president trump secure that border? how many men of the cartel did not make it because of president trump? how many drugs come across that or how much funds and all in opioids did not come across the border because border patrol was not 50% tied up with families? president trump did the right thing. join biden destroy that within two weeks. steve: exactly. >> time is right. tom is right, steve. tom is absolutely right. the only incentive here is it is incentivizing the drug cartels and the human smuggling oper

amnesty report also looks at the crisis in the central american nations of honduras, guatemala, and el salvador where thousands have fled to escape stateoverty fueled and community's destroyed from two hurricanes last year. we go now to mexico city where we are joined by erika guevara-rosas. she is the americas director for amnesty international. welcome to democracy now! can you talk about your findings as the united states is most aware of what is happening in latin america because what is happening on the border come the situation in these different countries, describe what you fod most egregious. >> thank you. good morning. i would report our annual report was presented a couple of days ago. it is a picture of the state of the human rightsituation around the world. in the case of the americas, that picture is extremely devastating as you have just mentioned. it shows covid-19 pandemic and the measures taken to tackle it had a devastating effect of human rights in the region. fortunately, this time surprised the americas were hit worse by the pandemic. growing inequality, corruption, violence, impunity created - you just mentioned t

american association of state highway and transportation officia or listen the c-span radio app. "washington journal" continues. host: turning our attention to the border surge in migrants from central america, joining us is cynthia arnson, the latin american program director at the wilson center. cynthia arnson, i want to begin with the vice president, kamala harris, who has been tasked to the president to address this issue of migrants coming from central america. here's what she had to say when she met thursday with nation leaders about the migrant surge in the northern triangle. ♪ --[video clip] >> the question has to be, why do people leave home? either they are fleeing some harm, or because they are unable to satisfy their basic needs of taking care of the families because the resources are not there, so they have to go elsewhere. so i would look at it in terms of that, and what is going on. if you look at the acute issues in particular affecting the northern triangle, we are looking at extensive storm damage because of extreme climate, we are looking at drought in an area in a region where agriculture is one of the most traditionally important basis for their economy. we are

there's certainly talk about restarting the central american minors program that would allow children who have family here in the united states. that's all part of the long-term plan, but it's the short-term solutions that are needed now. and we understand the biden administration is scrambling to open up more facilities to shelter more children, but you're right, that doesn't do anything about the people who are coming now, and as we found from our reporting, chuck, the number of smugglers advertising openly for services like this is just -- it's prolific across facebook. it's hard not to run into these posts where smugglers are openly saying, please pay us $8,000. we'll get your child to the u.s. safely. of course, it doesn't end safely, and those who do come here, it's never an easy journey. so we're seeing while all these solutions kind of remain in the distant future, we're seeing real people being taken advantage of now. >> julia ainsley on this border crisis beat for us. julia, thank you. >>> we're still awaiting remarks from president biden. he's expected to push back against some criticisms over how big the infrastru

central america to ensure the united states is playing a role of being compassionate and caring. we're going to spend double the amount of money that trump allocated for people in central america. i think the americanership and helping people in central america as opposed to putting a wall for $15 billion and turning 0ur back on the rest of central america and people, i think this is a proposition. this was an important part of his campaign. >> let's talk about this for a second. the president has issued an executive order on the establishment of a presidential commission on the supreme court of the united states. this falls under the same category of political capital that i don't think joe biden was looking to have to invest in but trump nominated a third supreme court nominee days before the last election campaign, which got democrats really mad and there are people who want him to expand the court and appoint more democratic justices. so what is biden trying to do here? is he trying to buy a little time or trying to get the research done on what the right thing to do vis-a-vis the supreme court is? >> the white house would say it's a latter. they're now going to study the supreme court. they're