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Dismiss almost every allegation of war crimes leveled against u. K. Soldiers in iraq citing a lack of evidence. Good morning from russia wednesday the 30 june 2025 from arties worldview sage q youre in moscow is kevin though in this hour to take you through those headlines just so that in much more detail and again the focus 1st this morning is whats happening in the u. S. Overnight curfews and threats of a military clampdown have done little to quell the bitter anger being felt across america right now which has witnessed 8 days of protests over the Police Killing of george floyd in minneapolis the states Human Rights Department now says its going to investigate Police Conduct over the past 10 years there nationwide huge crowds ignored the stay home orders to continue venting their fear of a Police Brutality while in some areas soldiers tried to reestablish order. So a security cordon has been erected outside the white house in washington where 1600 extra troops have been deployed adding to the right control squads and other military personnel already on the streets thousands risk arrest for defying curfew orders and the latest protests remained peaceful after days of violence and clashes with police in philadelphia though officers used tear gas against demonstrators who blocked a highway. New york makes the stores a racing to secure themselves from looting which is already seen several retailers targeted with wooden holdings and smashed windows along the streets of course of usually prestigious shopping districts some are going further like in this liquor store you see in there in the state of illinois with stuff arming themselves hell im open next morning explaining why the looting risks erupting into something maybe much more dangerous. Heres one thing the protests against Police Brutality. However by night the protests take a much more violent or. Lendl is a moving and a tax on Business Owners many see this as an extreme expression of economic inequality obert. By looting bothers people so much more than knowing that across the country black men and women are tight the looting of america has been going on for over 40 years and the copra saw the ultra rich though some Business Owners are even willing to stand with the looters also properties are always cant be replace but loss of life no definitely upset with the looting i dont think the looting is necessary. But i definitely feel like something needs to be done you know to count up protect everybody says a large scale looting 250 buildings have been damaged in minnesota alone from. Members of george boyds family home destroyed stuff. They dont know but i dont know why i cannot testify i would stop coming out of this high off go. Oh. Thats enough of the by once breeds violence and the riots keep going the Police Response is gone as far as ramming cars and routes amid this chaos Business Owners that decided to take their own security into their own hands in the most american way. 0 1. You run do. You think im going to i would you. Have been open you suggesting store owners protect themselves. And if you try to break into their homes to still to set fires im highly recommending they blow you back out of the house with their guns armed vigilante groups are now patrolling the streets they say take your neighborhood back cops are out here you think you can risers you know were ready for the rush these are police saying we are up here they are 15 we are protecting our neighborhood are you doing all of this arrested for civil conflict across america. A coastal edwards out for themselves this is taken outside a russian restaurant in San Diego California where armed locals lined up to defend the premises the there was among those who felt the need to be armed in the current circumstances lets talk to get a bit more the back story here i guess i young as the owner of the pushkin restaurant thanks to be live with us making the time late at night we why did you feel you had to take such drastic measures here not just self. Hi kevin. First of all d on saturday we experienced heavy looting in the city of san diego it wasnt in our neighborhood but it was a neighborhood which was pretty close to us just maybe 6 miles outside of the downtown city limits where you know the the the protests started peacefully and then they started burning buildings they had burned chase j. P. Morgan chase bank they burned u. S. Bank and then they started burning regular businesses so there was a really big textural. They completely its a building on fire. On life and this sort of a shark in for you particularly in san diego is a really chilled later place the best of it was i just couple of months ago the f. B. I. Plus this is americas safest big city only a couple of years ago so it must be a huge shock if you see this kind of thing happening on your doorstep especially after the coronavirus you mean. You know we were getting enough protein we have enough problems and and now we are you know theres a lot more than we werent so come to the chase here has your restaurant actually been attacked lets be clear there are you worried is there a worry that you know if youre starting to arm yourself here it could maybe if things go wrong shots are fired trigger something far far worse so i think being looted which is a riff they want to put you know its another thing if you shot at. Well not you know you absolutely right we you know we let people know that we had arms and we were standing outside. More than most of the guys that were standing outside did he have any guns on them were a couple of guys that were inside and you could clearly see them someone when you walking outside of the big windows you know they had a couple shotguns and so i wanted to make sure that people know that you know we dont have anything outside but the guys on the inside that we had the shotguns and we in one have a you think what is going to play the know with coronavirus except to say you have give had to do without now for weeks and months not lets say you trade in your restaurant there of course is your restaurant open was open for takeaways what is the state of play the moment there so we were in the open for takeaways only because we were fine dining restaurant and i felt we would actually lose more money by employing people to. Do the take out your closed up. Well kind of we took a different route we start selling raw produce to people who needed the most because a lot of delivery options werent available and i was able to get all mighty back working and delivering produce to the actually you did great. We were able just a final 30 seconds whats the vibe that will show personal feeling about whats going on regarding the police saying regarded wes is being handled at the top by trump whats your feeling about whats happening in america a lovely place in your lovely city whats going wrong i am in a low city and it pains me to see this easy to see. Young american young young black lives being lost something stupid like this could have been the word it and the fact that you know people are looking doesnt help the cos thats just my personal experience my personal opinion you know there could be there could be better ways to go about this and then robbing Small Businesses because these people have not been. Invented some like theyre only burning large corporations or banks. Theyre breaking into a Small Businesses small Jewelry Stores and these people are already. Probably have no money after 2 months or one of ours and now that you know people can lose their entire savings and become homeless or you stay safe and look look after team as well and im sure those people are helping to thank you a lot as well i guess they are not of the pushkin restaurant in san diego good bye for now have a good night. Thank you kevin. So the tension the chaos and the uncertainty on the streets right now there are some glimmers of light lets talk about that Everybody Needs this one protester in california ran up to a Police Officer and gave him a hug while in philadelphia several offices knelt in front of demonstrators to see him this time the gay man who cheered and applauded him. When your congressmans true feelings about the unrest has gone viral after being a wittingly caught by a socalled hot mike were talking veteran democrat representative eliot engle who was recorded say he wouldnt care about the Police Brutality and rest if he didnt have a primary to fight coming up referring to his upcoming election challenge the 12 2nd clip went viral and saw his political challenges raced to condemn his remarks and delay to backtrack to must be said insisting he does deeply care about the situation dont call to next that looking at the blurred lines between the political compassion and the exploitation during the nation defining events. Long ago the u. S. For a bloody civil war that broke the chains of africanamerican bondage but over 150 years later and the country is once again divided by race with growing fears that another great civil conflict could take place and the politicians are already drawing their camps on the one side trump is beating the drum of war and is ordering the military to step in i am mobilizing all available federal resources civilian and military to stop the rioting and looting to end the destruction an arson and to protect the rights of law abiding americans and as the president who wants to be known for restoring law and order he also wants the naysayers to know that god will be voting for trump in 2020. 5. Years or 3. Good is electoral rival joe biden finally awoke from his long media silence and recently went down to the protests in delaware to show his support for them and his campaign of course. The only way to bad this kind is to turn all that anguish to power and as president i will help lead this conversation and more importantly i will listen by and support was echoed in an op ed by his old boss former president barack obama he added though that people need to participate in elections to fix the problem eventually aspirations have to be translated into specific laws and institutional practices and in a democracy that only happens when we elect government officials who are responsive to our demands the waves of protests across the country represent a genuine and legitimate frustration over a decades long failure to Reform Police practices and the broader criminal Justice System in the United States right and obama was that responsible government official. We cant forget that it was under the Obama Administration that we saw the rise of black lives matter for 8 years the United States had a black president and Police Brutality is still as bad as it ever was you could even argue that some are even more outraged about it now. The democrats and the republicans have picked their sides and so to have the countrys type john. Its both twitter and instagram change their logos in honor of black lives matter you tube and other companies have made politicized tweets to show their support with all these different political interests all trying to wrangle the social unrest to their advantage you have to wonder who will come out on top and at what cost but in terms of the troubling ministration the obama biden of this recent did better thats not really saying thank you very much thats not saying much at all human many of us were very disappointed with the Obama Administration as for mr feith when he was in the u. S. Senate he was in many ways according to the New York Times the market for said of this criminal Justice System that has led to task for me like him in a particular being and trust me its unclear what will be the impact of these joint meetings when we would like to. But i would like to think that its the right thing to describe it now mr try oh i was here before now im quite typical stashed in a horrendous way. Next more signs of the times of mark rising graffiti across the United States were sprayed police cars walls windows and pavements the tag a c. A b. Which you can say here is a derogatory name aimed at the police on this next slogan is also trending right now theres another dig at the authorities by protest as to americas rick sanchez says stretched Police Forces are really up against iran now. American politicians whether theyre mayors or councilmen or senators or local officials or state officials or federal officials cannot get elected unless they say in their stump speech i will give you 10 more Police Officers for your city the next one i will give you 20 more Police Officers and im going to give them bigger guns and im going to give them more cars the days of when Young Children in america had people who help them not become criminals have given way to a society where we almost encourage them to become criminals so then we can arrest them because after we arrest them we create another job not only do we have now more cops but now we can hire Correctional Officers the number of Correctional Officers the number of cops in america continues to go up and you know whats interesting you almost cant even put this on cops i know its an easy week to feel horrible about Police Officers and be very critical of them but weve put those people in that situation right weve weve told them all we want you to do is go out there and arrest people america has turned into a militarization zone a police state and weve done it with each politician who we voted for who decided to take them into School Budgets all over the world all over our country and shrink them down to almost nothing so they can create more space for more guns and more cops and more cop cars why in the hell in the United States of america are our Police Officers wearing camouflage around us and in an Army Uniforms as if we were the enemy and thats a big part of the problem this were the enemy and theyre the authority. Rick sanchez that as straightly is calling for investigation into the rough handling of a journalist in washington d. C. While covering the riots there a correspondent cameraman was seen being assaulted while reporting live. Right. There. Was thinking oh well you saw the pictures the press freedom watch dog the committee to protect journalists says theres been at least 125 violations against reporters during 3 days of these protests it also calculates that around 20 journalists have been arrested another media watchdog estimates that around 90 instance of involved attacks including tear gas pepper spray and rubber bullets in some cases its suspected that news crews have been deliberately targeted. As. I am for us. Ok im down down. I would rather lose if. They cant hear you ok. Its the belief that because i think if youre with me in that. Im sorry. That. You could just make it out that last show you heard there was an american journalist saying im press she was working for the Russian News Agency sputnik near the white house describes next how officers opened fire despite knowing she was there to report on events. Well the man has actually just like this and said im crass and crass and i was holding it right or and its after and yelled im press and they start shooting me with a barrage of stinger and i have been right on my side on my torso and on my back and i also got hit with a rubber bullet in my calf and then these did not hesitate to use their right shields to push us down to the ground so they may also question into the ground i slid along after all and had a lot of abrasions on my side they were very well aware that i was pressed and this is a clear targeting of journalists many administrations of United States governments have you know said about other countries that other countries dont have free press we are also concerned about the threats of violence against journalists which have a Chilling Effect on press freedom especially when they are not investigated or prosecuted we call for an immediate end to threats and for violence against journalists hope the rest of the world will follow our press freedoms in the great things we do in the United States what i physically experienced from yesterday is that the u. S. Is all too willing credibly willing to visit violence upon journalists here and to try to silence journalists here and i saw again i saw other members of the press experiencing the same thing away from us shows theres been solidarity demonstration the from australia to argentina what in europe rallies have been taking place in britain italy sweden greece and the netherlands most have been peaceful but one rally in paris descended into violence. Fighting a battle galleries because of the pandemic at thousands still nonetheless turned out to protest brutality by French Police it was in memory of a young black frenchman adama traore who died in Police Attention back in 26 days of the skirmishes broke out right officers responded with tear gas with projectiles a live pepper spray. Is going to try to put its past the morning for most killed me kevin owen coming up next to british soldiers were reporting on the likely to escape trial over suspected war crimes in iraq as independent investigators draw up most of the allegations its a head. You cant be both with the yeah you want. One else seemed wrong. Why dont we all just dont. Let me. Get to shape out just to become educated and gain treatment equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart when shes to look for common ground. Again the number of deaths in britain from corona virus could be worse than the headline figures suggest by may the 22nd the Government Statistics Office put the number at just over 40000 but when figures from Health Authorities and local governments around the u. K. Are added in the number jumps to over 50000 fatalities the u. K. Governments along with under scrutiny over its handling of the pandemic not least the harrowing toll the outbreak taken on care homes for the elderly was 15000 residents are known to have died from covert 19 in those places which is roughly a 3rd of all deaths in britain we spoke to Charlie Williams who lost his father to the disease at a facility in england. Are some several scientists crawling laras. In the 100 we was told theres not one our fathers Health Deteriorates it a lurch it off family and we were told suspects it covered 9 saying so often us bonds 1st and we can same they said we cant because it now transformed the 1st floor twice lation unit and then our receipt in patients from the hospital we were absolutely shot of here in this we was never informed of its a small lisa coming up its s. He said they cant test him which we found dar they said no i will test them a moment but we insisted he must be tested with be tested immediately and eventually monday a green frame to be tested a few hours later my father by a one day april its 10. 00. Or the code in medicare where mr williams died says that it followed all the official covert 900 safety guidance Charlie Williams though describes his fathers case as just one element of a Major National scandal and a says the government should that fast. You know we have no doubt is coleman is responsible all over negligent manslaughter of my father we have no doubt this is what we have to stop and official complaints and really address to follow those complaints through. Is only a small part of the National Scandal here in the u. K. Where a lot of monks sanction all those homes take. Ition so its not been tested. And done we have no doubt how often. Or call it lightly my father being around this is something that has to be so to my father we are stunned as is many many of the families that. Must contact me now. In the news this morning 3 soldiers are unlikely to face legal action for alleged crimes during the Iraq Campaign and more than a 1000 cases were being looked at by the u. K. s independent prosecuting authority but its chief has told the b. B. C. That all except one of being dropped citing a lack of evidence and michelle e a team of investigators were set by the u. K. Government to examine more than 3000 allegations of british war crimes in iraq which included murder and torture the group been in operation for 7 years before a key solicitor was sacked for misconduct and the team a shut down meantime the International Criminal court opened its preliminary examination and concluded that the allegations did have real grounds by that time though british troops in iraq have repeatedly come under scrutiny. Well the British Government believes former soldiers and veterans should be protected from outdated allegations a bill proposed a few months ago would effectively limit the prosecution of british soldiers actions abroad it also defines the investigation of alleged cases that took place more than 5 years ago was exceptional political analyst Chris Bambery spoke to subvert it he believes syrias war crimes shouldnt have any deadlines on reaching trial. I think there is considerable. Material that there is in iraq itself where it really is felt that the occupation was itself a we go to the iraqis stop at the hands of the Occupying Forces british and american and then themselves leave this in the way it was the United States of course is not prepared to let its citizens and its Service Personnel face prosecution and sort of void it totally by bringing in this 5 year women it i think britain is begin could go the route of the United States and i would be concerned that thats the divergence and station of peers of other european major one partners in other countries around the world serious allegations or war crimes can take a long time to surface or indeed the identification couper way if the war crimes are serious there should not be a limited period of time in which they are pursued and courage does not fit with united nations. And thats the way some of the worlds top headlines are shaping up this wednesday the 3rd of june reporting from moscow im kevin were online were on social media and on the t. V. And as the day progress is that so are other anchors and studios around the world for you to we all thank you for watching thank you for choosing r. T. International. Thank you. Unbelievable. Shocking. This is not a video game the average us citizen is over 10 times more likely to be killed by a Police Officer than by terrorists. After witnessing a wave of Police Brutality that he knows what should be on my news feed every day i decided to investigate the problem of Police Brutality in america. And United States police just to people every day. And. These are the official numbers according to unofficial numbers the police chose for people the day