A Russian News Agency correspondent like being fired by u. S. Police. And they start shooting you. Have. This is a clear targeting of journalists. In the Russian Arctic. Red the Authorities Say they were. Coming with the story the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments this is your Weekly International hello and welcome you know neal. From east to west saturday so im eric is biggest cities filled with protesters marching against racism and Police Brutality nearly 2 weeks after the death of george boyd it was mostly peaceful like earlier this week when crowds felt the full force of riot police at least 11 people have died during the protests and all 4 former officers present when george floyd was killed while i face murder charges. While from small groups to streets filled with fury protests happened to all 50 us states during the week the National Guard was deployed in iraq half of them curfews were imposed in at least 29. 00 locations with demonstrators describing continued heavy handed policing as rioting and looting spread. From the days that ive been out the only time that violence erupts or gresham is shown is when the police have come out and shown force was struck and as i was trying to walk away. From the protests they began openly shooting rounds of tear gas rubber bullets into the crowd. There was violence by the police. In the streets of jacksonville they resulted in the necessary use of tear gas we suffered from tear gas and all types of pressure and arrests in the ones that i witnessed were unjustifiable the violence was coming from the state from the police. Is that enough. They feel that no one cares. This is the only way to lash out at the system. They come from neighborhoods this economically deprived that you know its like you know you got to keep me low you going to. You know basically this system is merely on around it the ugly side of the weeks rallies forced businesses to take precautions wouldnt hoardings and smash windows now lined the streets of even the most prestigious shopping districts some looters went to extreme measures this forklift was used to roman Electronics Retailer in california while owners are going even further with their security measures stuff helping arming themselves up and takes us through why the looting risks erupting into something more dangerous. Heres one thing. Tests against Police Brutality was 5. 0000 however by night the protests take a much more violent for. Lyndall ism 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 die the looting of america has been going on for over 40 is the copra saw the ultra rich though some Business Owners are even willing to stand with the looters also properties are always can be replace but loss of life so no theyre fully upset with the looting dont think that looting is necessary. But i definitely feel like something needs to be done you know to kind of protect everybody says a large scale looting 250 buildings have been damaged in minnesota alone that prompted members of George Floyds family to call her home got their car stuck. On a 100 they dont know nobody i dont know why i cannot testify i was stuck trying to get up in the schoolyard stuff. Right now oh my. God. Is enough of that violence breeds violence as the riots keep going the Police Response has gone as far as ramming cars and crowds amid this chaos Business Owners that decided to take their own security into their own hands in the most american way ok oh ok ok you run my. Own you think im going to my would you know no no no no no no the authorities have been openly suggesting store owners protect themselves with guns and if you try to break into their homes to still. To set fires. Highly recommending they blow you back out of the house with their guns armed vigilante groups are now patrolling the streets this is how you take your neighborhood back here the 2nd risers and you know were ready for the rest of your policing we are all here they are 15 we are protecting our neighborhood. All of this arrested for civil conflict across america well its becoming more and more clear that some communities are very much at all odds with each other over the street rallies this is a peaceful march in the state of indiana on the other side of aggression but the route was lined with locals armed with rifles watching as the protests possibly its been opening elsewhere. On the court of the state its all. Right. Stands for yeah. These guys are ready man they play you know what were doing here is were protecting them trolling our neighborhood after the riots started out in south of minneapolis we have a conscious decision while the police were hammering out over there that we were going to come together and protect our buildings here and protect our families on joe i came out here because its about damn time. You know guys like me guys that you know would be viewed as just a heavily armed redneck and stuff like that good with fellow citizens regardless of race regardless of whether we were in the same local community or not its time we stand together. Now you might have seen this photo doing the raw and its of a russian restaurant in some Diego California where locals lined up with weapons to defend the premises the owner is among those who felt the need to be armed in the current circumstances themself he spoke to r. T. About what its been like there. We experienced heavy looting in the city of san diego it wasnt in our neighborhood but it was a. Mess of which has been equal source just maybe 6 miles outside of the town city limits where you know the the protests started peacefully and then they started burning buildings i am a little city and it pains me to see this you see. Young american young young black lives being lost or something stupid like this could have been awarded and the fact that you could go to help the cause thats thats just my personal experience my personal opinion. There could be. Could be better ways to go about this and then robbing Small Businesses because these people have nothing to do with it well aside from businesses protecting themselves during the violence another group has been facing a threat in their line of work and number of journalists have been left injured by police while covering the nationwide protests the press Freedom Watchdog the committee to protect journalists ses there have been at least 300 violations against new stuff since the 26th of may from both police and rioters it also states that dozens of journalists have been arrested the Australian Government meanwhile is calling for an investigation into the rough handling of a t. V. News team while they were reporting live on the washington riots. But. There was talk of going to take a break you know for a while. I trust who knows if. It came through that. Ok. Larry. You may have just been able to make out the words press that was an american journalist shutting it she was working for the Russian News Agency sputnik where the white house. Describes how officers reacted knowing she was there to report on. The democrats 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 Unaids i have 7 in rank on my side on my torso and on my back and i also got hit with a rubber bullet in my path and then this did not hesitate to use their right shields to push us down to the ground so they may also question into the ground and i slid along after all and had a lot of abrasions on my side they were very well aware that i was passed and this is a clear targeting of journalists many administrations of United States government 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 i 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. You know thats some of the examples of aggression live on air against the press in the us social media too has been abuzz with footage of officers reacting with force indeed in some cases beyond the law against protesters people have been injured by tear gas tasers rubber bullets and even vehicles being driven into crowds there are no multiple lawsuits on investigations into Police Conduct a new York Police Department vehicle was filmed attempting to drive through a crowd last saturday other incidents were live streamed on facebook including them on pepper sprayed by an officer in michigan before having a tear gas canister fire and us him from bertie a metre away and in the city of atlanta here are 2 officers have been sacked after forcibly arresting 2 students. Turning attention to new york state which sold the latest big case to grab headlines this week 2 officers pleaded not guilty to assault on sunday after they were filmed pushing an elderly protester he was hospitalized with a head injury after about however the Police Departments version of the fence initially said the trip fell on this will similarly the initial report on George Floyds death which sparked the global protests against Police Brutality law certain details. He was ordered to step from his car after he got out he physically resisted officers officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs the noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress officers called for an ambulance he was transported to Hennepin CountyMedical Center by ambulance where he died a short time later. I. Was. Stopped ah. But you have got your back. Dont do not stop drop rest. I pad. Videos paint a story sort of a culture where a lot of the public has been trained and encouraged to not believe like people. List by pay attention. On certain see on many streets theyre up in some glimmers of light along the way one protester in California Run up to a Police Officer and they from the hug there were similar scenes in kentucky. Theyre watching R T International after the break the law says rallies are taking place in big cities including here in london life pictures right now from. Dining street in the shadow thanks fairness. You can see a standoff between protesters and riot police there a very distinct line is there to tweet the 2 thought theyre joining the recent demonstrations crushes have broken out well be going live to our correspondent there in london in 1000 seconds to find out what is happening. Is youll be a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe from. Isolation or community. Are you going the right way or are you being legs up. Direct. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a maybe in the shallowness. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Welcome back large scale rallies of being staged this weekend all around the globe but some of them turning it violent and these are images right now from london where clashes broke out in the british capital with police and protesters and out happened a few hours ago its being continuing right through the day so lets cross live from new york correspondents there are. Ali. You know as darkness descend is this is tends to be when things get worse there is the situation unfolding. Absolutely all throughout the day people have been marching through Central London in response to the killing of george floyd which largely is going to peacefully tens of thousands of people marching from the u. S. Embassy to here in Parliament Square and also there is gun shoot at the moment things are a little tense there were clashes this evening as the Police Rushed into the crowd just outside of Parliament Square to try to make an arrest the crowd. Went to get a person back from the police and clashes took place whitehall towards queens and charles street things are calm somewhat there have been some running scuffles back and forth between police and protesters during the course of the day and we can have a look at some of the flashpoints and they do want to go. Despite those clashes which protest this is started by the police the mood has been one of the fire and also towards tbilisi many people coming up to us to tell us of their reasons for attending this protest. So what we do stand up and should we do understand as individuals own this thing as i want past know never experience that but i can have the compassion to understand the pain of the people i have even myself already dossier i dont by being in a Police Station for no reason i feel like in the Education System we dont really talk about that night as much in history so i do think its kind of like speak. To a comment about. Now the protests in other parts of the United Kingdom including in bristol where we were a controversial start to a bed with a slave owner from the sixtys hundreds but thats been a cause of consolation in the sense of bristol that you campaign is going on to have it removed well its just a matter of these about our own hands. Taking down that structure and throwing it into the harbor in brussels or following the response from the home so we could fix it so she described the putting down of that monument to a slave owner as this crisis which is going on welcome the spot for her in some quarters. Thanks very much for bring us right up to date to stay safe stay well out there just darkness the sense in Central London isa ali. Just on what easter was speaking about there will just flesh the block lives matter protesters in bristol pulled on a statue of of edward coast and that is a story that we had been following for a little while you can just see we want to show you exactly how it occurred a lot of controversy about why the were not police theyre stopping this from happening it seems to have been a large go ahead he was. 3 or 400 years ago it was able to open up a lot of schools etc in the area but it was speaking out but it did cause a lot of controversy for a lot of years there about stocks you know. Moving with the program a major cleanup operation is underway in the Russian Arctic following him us a fuel leak near the city of there is now a state of emergency after 20000 tons of diesel seeped into a river in what environmentalists are calling the arctic regions worst ever catastrophe its so bad it can be seen from space these soft light images from the Russian Space agency ross calls mosque if you an idea really of the extent of the pollution containment device is known as boom bar ears are in place to try and stop the fuel reaching this sea more than a 1000 tons of diesel been recovered but the cleanup could take years to complete the authorities are furious they were only alerted to the leak 2 days after it happened. Why did the authorities only come to this after 2 days and were now going to find out about emergencies like these from social media are you feeling all right. d if you saw on twitter you saw we should do sort of a rescue team intervene very quickly the fuel spill was localized to them by now river and the rescuers have already started working intensively to collect i believe or oil. Just a note on this story Russias Investigative Committee has launched 3 probes into what happened and have arrested the director of the power plant where the fuel tank field. Now when europe shut down to stem crolla virus sweden kept going most businesses stayed open there in what was seen from abroad as a risky move but the swedish state epidemiologist behind the strategy told the newspaper on wednesday that although it caused too many deaths he doesnt think it was wholly wrong. If we were to encounter the same disease with exactly what we know about it today i think we would learn midway between sweden dude and what the rest of the wounded. Sweden has suffered more than 4 and a half 1000 deaths out of a population of around 10000000 makes it the most affected of the scandinavian countries the others in forced harsher restrictions denmark in fact the next highest in the region has less than 650. 00 delegates the swedish government though ses it was ready to take on wider measures against the virus if advice to buy the Health Agency residence well they are not so sure about the pull out on thursday echoed others suggesting that confidence among us we just saw this in the states ability to deal with the outbreak has dropped significantly since april as you can see clearly another swedish epidemiologist we spoke to didnt hold back from criticizing either. We only started we entered so why the. Major then of course the nation us how to wash it in that. Way which agree there it was the experiences of other countries around us it was started by a student and by that very. Countries she was there to do cannot see when we would not know then i dont. Know then they were trying to save for me they were trying to save system. And not going to straighten all shit out of countries but were were being i think much more around fortunate. With some of the stories that shape this week are looking this hour ill be back with more on indeed all of sundays developments in iran 30 minutes from now in the meantime said type because were about to delve into the latest worlds apart episode with in a moment. You know were number one. In United States we all slow number one. To determine. How many. Passes for most. Evil you so incredibly wrong or you got a wicked jump shot in order to move. Along in a months almost. A month of sundays so this is somebody that is at the root for. What weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. Spearing Dramatic Development only personally im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. All. The time while im too old to party. Many drivers. On the media how do you hate. Democrats tend to lobby people hiding their pressing is it even possible to make that distinction in todays America Votes just as that analogy implied patio gels at her hazard ill get back to be depressed. And we are all the storage and the shield their privacy to realize that its and they came here your Professor Joseph its good to talk to you thank you very much im your parent and congratulations on your book which was released just last month from a Commercial Point of view i guess you can wish for more release date but as an american citizen as a scholar how do you feel about whats happening around. You i think i take great hope and inspiration in the fact that so many people have gone to the streets to demonstrate most of the protests in over 100 cities actually have been peaceful you know the media is focused on the violence and theres been a huge amount of white protesters alongside of latin x. And asian and indigenous so its not just black people protesting Racial Justice so i think its a great generational opportunity for the United States of america to finally get rid of White Supremacy and institutional racism inequality weve seen Racial Disparities because of coded 19. Weve seen Racial Disparities in the criminal Justice System education housing every single aspect of the United States now let me start missing least if not by me as i was really your book well now the mechanics and dr king had a clear vision a clear understanding of who and what they were up against that made all was galvanized public to get public support Exchange Public opinion but when it comes George Floyds dad theres no disagreement that it was a brutal murder am with it reason that Something Like this should never happen again and multiple investigations so what is the wind of her task saying when everybody agrees that Something Like this absolutely