For good morning the latest developments and a look back at whats been happening over the last 7 days to watch in the weekly here on r. T. International now another black man has died at the hands of police sparking violent unrest in the u. S. City of atlanta the citys police chief resigned after an officer fatally shot the africanamerican man while he was being arrested on saturday night. I. Brooks was asleep in his car blocking the drive thru of a Fast Food Restaurant late on friday an official report says that employees called police to complain when officers arrived brooks was breath tested and failed but he then resisted arrest investigators claimed in the struggle he managed to grab one of the officers tasers before fleeing police push on foot and during the chase brooks was said to have turned and pointed the taser at an officer it was at this moment he was reportedly shot brooks was taken to hospital but died after surgery a lawyer for the Family Claims Police acted atrociously he lays there don last stand around one pixel and flips them over and then the witnesses tell us that what you cant see dont but they filmed it they want to picked up the shell case. I want to watch so theyre all of you know how far away he was when they shot but they appear to be terror more about covering their tracks than provided. That could have saved his life likely to say we want justice but out of the ottoman period were even though what that is and ive been doing this 15 years out of the us is a more following the incident atlantas mayor said that the officer in question had been sacked while the citys police chief had quit. While there may be debate as to whether this was an appropriate use of deadly force i firmly believe that there is a clear distinction between what you can do and what you should do. I do not believe that this was a justify use of deadly force and have called for the immediate term a nation of the officer. Chief shields has offered to immediately step aside as police chief so that the city may move forward with urgency in rebuilding the trust so desperately needed throughout our Community Well its been almost 3 weeks since george floyd was killed at the hands of police in minneapolis on tuesday the man whose death sparked nationwide riots in the u. S. Was buried in a small private funeral in his hometown of houston in texas earlier on the same day thousands paid their respects on tuesday around 6000. 00 mourners file past his coffin in houston the final stop in a series of memorials held in his own or around 30000. 00 was spent on his gold casket with the money taken from a record breaking Fundraising Campaign that amassed nearly 13000000. 00 the full act from floyds death as provided claims politicians they were trying to use it to score political points democrats for example were criticized by something even for an 8 minute silence in congress the length of time prosecutors say floyd was pinned under a White Police Officers named before him down. Every american should try to stand in silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds to acknowledge the pain of george floyd and the pain of racism charging up to grieve but its much harder to do it in public its much harder with the whole world watching your incredible family his old daughter who want to sit there is going to change the world and i think her dad is going to change the world hopefully george is looking down right now and saying this is a great thing thats happening for a country this is a great great day. In terms of equality i just want to finish by saying to save the economy we passed several pieces of critical legislation. For this that. Would be willing. To take that very very. Well the democrats have proposed the justice in policing act which would make it easier to prosecute misconduct and require local police to report data on the use of force officers but also be obliged to undergo bias training and chokeholds and other dangerous practices would be prohibited officers would also need to wear body cameras political commentator charles plays as a clear political motivation no behind me yes. You know what they say right i mean never let a good crisis go to waste theyre all definitely be people from both sides who are going to capitalize on what happened in georgia. To bolster their political careers it is an Election Year so its hard to tell whether or not people really were this are really wanting to affect change or if theyre posturing for november the true test of whether people really want to affect change will will occur after the election is over if this is still going to be an issue that were going to be pushing in our in our media and also at a at a political level as well then it is possible for for positive change to. Well at the beginning of the week black lives matter protesters seize control and barricade themselves into 6 blocks of central seattle they are calling the area the capitol hill autonomous zone and then move came after police had retreated from the neighborhood hundreds of demonstrators led by the local council also occupied the city hall. Protesters inside were calling for the citys mayor to quit and accuse her of not being strict enough implementing reforms while the key demand of all demonstrators is for the police to be defunded one of their goals is to build a Community Inside the zone without any need for police some of those who occupy the city hall claim the community and not politicians should control Decision Making his own is a self declared commune no police or cars are allowed into the area and reports do suggest though that some of those are armed the citys mayor later defended the protesters saying that they are just patriots online though theres been a mixed reaction. In response President Trump has demanded law and order in seattle he also called at those he felt responsible saying all this is happened in a radical left Democratic State later trump threatened to send in the army if the local authorities dont deal with the situation but the issue of law and order has been on the lips of both republican and democrat president s for more than 5 decades. Law and order perhaps more familiar as the popular t. V. Show you running for 3 decades already law and order. But also exactly whats triggered nationwide protests across the United States. Thats the. Law and order is the 1st responsibility of government dont send people up there that come home and talk tough on law and order and crime and then go back and vote some other way around with. A symbol of law and order a policeman on the campus and that was the moment when the ringleaders should have been taken by the scruff of the neck and crawled out of the university one. By law and order i mean in order for everyone weve got to reestablish respect for law respect for law and order a concept thats existed since the Founding Fathers the catchphrase that helped take Richard Nixon to the white house during mass civil unrest and race riots. Around 200 people died back then in clashes Martin Luther king was assassinated so waving in a new era for society nixon proposed an agenda in which Police Powers were a bouncer increase in 1968 the green light was given for the use of stop and search and powers have expanded since in new york it became infamous stops dramatically increasing under mayor Michael Bloomberg in the 2 thousands but it raised a key issue racial prejudice during the peak of the program more than half of the people stopped were black but the black community made up just over one quarter of new yorks population and 1st started at new york philadelphia look callous 7 7 this serving its 1st stop its a day at least. As new ways to keep order away. Introduced laws became tougher since 190428 states have adopted some form of whats known as the 3 strike practice it meant lengthy sentences for repeat offenders even life behind bars the policy came in as the war on drugs peaked which raised further questions of racial targeting at the turn of the century more than half of all inmates serving time for drug offenses in state prisons were black 3 years ago it was still around 30 percent despite only being 13 percent of the population as a whole with both Police Powers and sentencing increased prison numbers skyrocketed there are more black people than any other racial Group Behind Bars in america something that has not changed under bill Clinton George bush or barack obama for every 100000 people in the u. S. Sentences for black people a 5 times higher than whites. So law and order it was a response to rioting like the unrest ravaging the United States from coast to coast in 2020 provoked by Police Actions it happened in los angeles in 92. 00 after the beating of rodney king by the authorities it happened after the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in ferguson a year later in baltimore with the death of freddie gray. In the last 5 years on record the number of those fatally shot by the police per 1000000 people is higher among blacks than any other ethnicity and now history is repeating itself yet another Police Related death has provoked unrest and again triggered discussion on black rights so as we look back on whats unfolded since nixon and his slogan in the sixtys donald trump has reassured the nation now saying i am your president to have law and order or from the mans for an order to come at a time and place in the u. S. To becoming increasingly militarized many forces now having the kind of hardware previously only sing in front line combat brought elam up in a small. Predator drones are a staple of u. S. Foreign policy they have been used in afghanistan pakistan bosnia serbia yemen iraq syria somalia and now minneapolis though the protesters didnt see it it was flying over their heads in order to help federal officials gain situation awareness and go reports indicate it was on armed people are angry and afraid the deployment of drones and offices to surveil protests is a gross abuse of authority and its particularly issuing when they used against americans who are protesting Law Enforcement brutality it appears that the war on terror has come home the mine resistant ambush protected vehicles built by the u. S. Military to a stand i attacks in iraq have been rolling down american streets as well the 1033 Program Allows the u. S. Military to provide local Police Departments with weapons local police can order weapons like remade launchers automatic rifles and bayonets as well as body armor robots aircraft watercraft and survey one strongs these are Defense Department products deemed to be excessive old or surplus 7400000000. 00 worth of Defense Department property has been provided to over 8000. 00 different Law Enforcement agencies by the 1033 program ex new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg once referred to the new York City Police department saying i have my own army and the n. Y. P. D. The 7th largest army in the world well with lots of military equipment the n. Y. P. D. Certainly does seem like an army of iraq obama rolled back the program after the ferguson protests and National Outrage about the militarization of police who. Are. Now back. However trump has roof 5 the program now many are asking the question why does the department of defense have so much excess gear that it needs to unload anyway the u. S. Has been involved in so many words that they become occupations and the military is has developed techniques were operating as an Occupying Army and theyve brought this home they brought the war home after they made by these things and the military you know uses some of them they become surplus or if they dont buy of them all you know the military orders a certain number and then they back out of buying some of it a lot of the stuff sitting in military warehouses and so they want to get rid of them and basically Congress Passed a law saying that these things are to be given to Police Departments so we have the ridiculous situation where small towns are being given em wraps theyre totally impractical they dont make any sense theyre terribly intimidating though. And thats part of the purpose i guess for years americans have been told that the military budget is necessary to keep them safe and protect them from bad actors around the world but its starting to look like the bad guys these weapons are intended to be used against our a lot closer to home the very people whose tax dollars pay for them it will mop and artsy new york the former minnesota governor and america heist Jesse Ventura says that the minister eyes ation of the police can easily be saying on the streets. Why do cops now look Like Star Wars commandos i mean when they come out and you look at them they dont look like your friend they look like an Occupying Military today not only that i was driving down minnesota a year or 2 ago and i saw the freeway this big black vehicle looked like it belonged in iraq and i pulled alongside of him and said mr soldier state Highway Department this thing was unbelievable i mean it was it was a combat military machine we need to get that stuff out of our police force as we do i was in the philippines when Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law i was physically there and there were military on every corner with machine guns lets not do that. Still to come on the way to the u. S. Back hes writing plans to extend cell phone to your as many view it and makes parts of the west bank there was criticism from palestinians European Countries but even some is writing 2nd this will have a look at what theyre saying just off the bat. Say. No no crown. No shots. Actually felt. A strong build the 1st. Point should your thirst for action. Oh again madge and his foreign minister visited jerusalem this week where hes expressed opposition to israels plan to extend sovereignty or as others would call it an ex parts of the west bank i can ask made clear to you he has the the u. S. Backing on the matter. It went on over together with the European Union were of the opinion that an exception would not be compatible with International Law and that is why we continue to stand by a negotiated consensual 2 state solution order for right from the very this week under the palestinians gathered in the city of ramallah to protest these writings planned since if implemented it would bring 30 percent of the west bank under permanent israeli control in the fall is donald trump socalled peace plan for the region that recognizes right the settlements while offering a path the Palestinian Statehood albeit with severe restrictions but as porous layer now explains it seems its not only palestinians and the e. U. Who are unhappy about the me. Im here in the west bank an israeli settlement of a lot more where where youd expect most of the cities to be enthusiastic about Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is plan to annex such areas to part of israel proper but surprisingly more and more of them are speaking out against such a move well as per trumps peace plan or settlement will be turned into an enclave a jewish settlement under israeli sovereignty situated at the heart of the palestinian state now its clear that life would become impossible in such enclaves. Along the immediate fall settlement is turned into many clave we wont be able to leave without a military escort there will be more goals more shooting stones more of cocktails Palestinian Police would not even take us into account while the annexation would still be hugely symbolic as sick as here enjoy the same rights and privileges of People Living inside israel which is why some argue that the territory has a weighty defector beam and next the Israeli Government enjoys the full support of the United States with the american president Donald Trumps backing of an expression part of the socalled deal of the century by palestinians trumps planning visions 1000000. Of them living in demilitarized enclaves mostly surrounded by israel the plan office the potential for palestinian self rule but only off to strict conditions on met set list though israel should unilaterally annex territory without agreeing to any of the clauses in trumps plan that they see as concessions to the palestinians until now this plan is not a good choice and i hope it will. Reconsider this plan because this is a very bad plan for us is sober n. T. Is our goal but if this. Act come with the price of giving 70 percent of the area in order to get a permit it by United States for 70 over 30 percent of the area no thanks i dont want to give most of the land in order to get legitimized by the americans for the minority of the land more and more settlers are claiming the trumps no good for israel and that his plan endangers the very existence of the state of israel and that annexation although it looks good for the settlements in the long run could be something bad cautious as i said wrong things hes a friend and he really advanced a lot compared to the europeans but still hes not conscious that actually hes giving us more danger than good things so i tell him thank you very much for your willingness we are happy that you begin to understand the reality of the oldest nation in the world who are turns to its home and up to 2000 years but still this is not enough because this is destroying our whole existence both the moral and physical sides netanyahu meanwhile is pushing to bring the topic of an exception to the cabinet for discussion as is the beginning of next month he says annexation is another glorious trapped in the history of zionism the irony is that many Ardent Design is disagree policia ati. In the show modern west bank and that is how the weekly is looking at so far today dont forget there are plenty of stories for you to you at our website you can find that at r. T. Dot com. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy going for him to let it be an arms race and of his on off and spearing Dramatic Development only personally im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. Has changed american lives but pharmaceutical companies have a miraculous solution. Based drugs the people who are chronic pain and believe that their opioid prescription is working for them on the remedy be certain to. Price at the. Grocery dependency and addiction to opiates to long term use that really isnt scientifically justified and all study actually suggests that. The long term effects may not just be absence of benefit but actually the maybe cause or long term. Are. There. Are. A lot of welcome to well the part where you use people in a regime change while there are a whole countries have been joking that. Color revolution isnt possible in the United States because you would need an American Embassy for that well apparently they were wrong which trouble is the riots and even the seizure of government buildings continuing how are americas foes taking being democratic uprising in the worlds most celebrated democracy to discuss and im now joined by David Kilcullen professor of international and Political Studies at the university of New South Wales and the author of the dry runs. How the rats learned to buy it was called and great to talk to you congratulations on your latest book and you for having me its great to be here and now i know that its not your original idea to refer to adversaries as rap tiles or you borrow the wrong. Bill clintons 1st cia director but since you build a narrative around it i assume you find it snooty what are you still whining about it for you. I think that so just to say this book is a book about military adaptation and its about how different players adapted by the time and i begin the book at the end of the cold war and as i was casting around for a way to frame whats happened since then i found jim moses comments in his confirmation hearing extraordinarily apt its a rather prescient deer of the International Security environment of the ninetys but it really comes down to that one phrase where he says we slain a large dragon talking about this so he well now we find ourselves in a jungle still with a broader and broader for the snakes and in many ways the dragon was easier to keep track of and i think what hes trying to say here is that weak states failing states and nonstate actors are the principal threat of the 99 is a. Minute or until it is the total color and. Its also way of categorising and its essentially putting legitimate state actors like russia or china into the same group as nonstate actors like isis and aba terror groups isnt just out just a little bit to give this a poke contrary if you are not we last year against that. So actually i think hes making the opposite point what hes saying is there are 2 different characters that are very different from each other there are or in your state adversaries russia china perhaps and then there are a completely different category which is the nonstate actors what he calls the snakes and my argument in the book is that weve spent basically 20 years of dissing on snakes on only particularly one snake International Islamic extremism and the related terrorism and i think that the world that rules he describes in 993 was an accurate description for maybe 10 years but it is out of date now and we now harness those if you like maladapted to the modern environment its interesting in the sale because i had a chance to interview mr holmes a few years back on the u. S. Russia relationship back he struck me as somebody that very. Well here and. He was speaking about russia as a School Principal to talk about is behaving student and i thinking even knew their world as a tiranny that the United States. Has the long run dont you think that batman of war no longer thinks the world let me all right. So i actually talk about this quite a lot in the book and i talk about how there was a period where the call of the uni pola you know a period after the. End of the cold war when the u. S. And nato countries and other people sort of wanted russia to become what they described as a normal country right what they meant by normal was a country that was democratic by western standards that was capitalist that was a member of the u. S. Led international rules. The best order established by the u. S. And as i point out in the book for a lot of russians experiencing Shock Therapy and privatization and hard economists coming and Risk Management a lot of people kristie in the west Foreign Policy thats also. I think a lot of people saw that as sort of permanent 2nd class status in a u. S. Led system and i think its pretty clear that russia in particular has been pushing back on that. Assumptions that a lot of u. S. Policymakers i wouldnt actually put will see at the top of the list there the person. Actually on albright who was the secretary of state for president clinton she made a comment in one in 98 when she said look if we have to use force its because were the United States we stand tall we see further than anybody else and sort of we know whats whats good for everybody well actually can see the number i think they have gotten my next question if the well is populated by the sneaks and the dragons who is the west bank is it and i dont white knight in shining armor you know this is a great question and actually i had to add. A note to the to the book to specify what