And i welcome you watching r. T. International this saturday morning where its just gone 10 oclock in moscow protesters in the newly formed autonomous zone in central seattle are considering their next move having seize control of the area after it was abandoned by Police President threatened to send in the army if the local authorities fail to resolve the matter. Were not going to let this happen and if we have to go in were going to go and to go there is you going to do it but to go to do it hes got Great National guard troops to do you can do it but one way or the other its going to get done and these people are not going to occupy a major portion of a great city our president wants to tell a story about domestic terrorists who have a radical agenda and are promoting a conspiracy and fitzs law and order initiatives its simply not true the threat to invade seattle to divide and incite violence in our city is not only unwelcome it would be illegal or the capitol hill autonomy was formed at the beginning of the week by black lives matter activists they barricaded themselves inside 6 blocks in the center of seattle and declare that a police freezone activist has been explaining what life is like inside the new community. I am down here in the capitol hill autonomous zone also known as chavez and the mood here is come a peaceful ok you can see it over here. Weve got people really get some food and over here we also have free pizza shrinks water all types of snacks weve got people handing out bags with masks and Hand Sanitizer literally everything you can think of and over here is the memorial that is set up to all of the people that weve lost or during the george lloyd rebellion as theyre calling it thats what the law says if there is they could constitute 24 hour vigil people can like candles and you know say their prayers see you know just just hang out this is the West Entrance to the capitol hill autonomous zone back there we have the the precinct which is where this is where most of the violence was inactive by the police for the last 2 nights the last week or so this is where most of the stuff happened and there are still 4 main barricade points and inside is the autonomous so people are anticipating on staying as long as possible there have been several tents that have already been set up people are preparing to stay overnight main goal i would say that i could say right now is that people are they calling for the defunding of police you know nationwide weve seen this minneapolis city council. Already you know completely just then vote to disband the Minneapolis Police were calling for the same thing here in seattle were calling for a complete defunding of the police a complete reallocation and to black and Brown Community is where its needed the most and so that is definitely a goal of people. I would say the number one. Great now. That is seattle but protests is still ongoing in other u. S. States to with the heart of u. S. Commerce no exception new york saw protesters come out peacefully to support the black lives Matter Movement of the protests coincided with the womens empowerment march and ended with a joint platform crowds gathered in manhattan reportedly starting out from prompt our people were seen Holding Placards there and chanting demand to defund the Police Justice for george fraud george floyd and also a particular focus on the lives. Of a side from public support the black lives Matter Movement has been given the backing of major u. S. Companies like Amazon Microsoft and also starbucks however it does seem that their actions arent speaking louder than their words taylor picks up the story 21st Century Companies live in fear of castle culture alone tweet to i misjudged jokingly 20 hoss sentence in the court of Public Opinion so with black lies much of the protests sweeping the globe every business is clamoring to see a part of fight the problem is theyve got to do a background check on themselves just found out starbucks is key to ring to the comfort of their racist customers but i asking their stuff not to wear anything in support of black clothes matter so i wont be visiting them and theyll be telling everyone i know to boycott them as well that by the end of the tire was. It was too late because by then incensed activist had gotten a parking space not to fuel. The companys history and sure enough starbucks got schooled by its low hypocrisy starbucks uses coffee extract to buy all slaves and what Tamara Kenyon costa rica and panama. Remember when they wrote lets talk about racism on the cops remember when the close to half a day because 2 black men were arrested for being black at a starbucks as we always thought they were only about black lives matter when its convenient luckily for starbucks so its not taking all the heat as other companies also ringback suffer from selective memory fashion powerhouses i victorias secret and prada tweeted how how sickened and somehow did they work by inequality and how they were companies with ethics which could be seen as full suffered ties in given that if you google though you might stumble across words like child labor exploitation black face asked for vogue obviously the most influential fashion magazine well now its promoting voices and brands in the black community which probably came as quite a surprise to the publication brazil director who recently celebrated her 50th birthday with own problematic slave themed party the world of big tech is also massively promoting black lives matter not on 10000 men will be welcomed by the movements banner and jeff bezos is publicly naming and shaming customers who sent him mean emails because of the companys starts which would be a full proof plan to boost your popularity than to make another couple of 100000000. 00 if it wasnt for the fact that i was and makes a tidy sum from its dealings with the police it is a bird to mistake a furnace on to use this moment to make empty and hypocritical statements when it is similar tenuously building the backbone for Many Police Departments across the country the Company Proprietary policy center acknowledges that are clearly targeting and harming black and brown communities and into the mix there are only 8 percent of its managers in the us a black eye youll see why slapping a banner on your home page doesnt quite make the cut. As a black woman i feel like it is time to boards theres a help us troubles Everyone Wants to join in and profit from us and what microsoft has started posting messages from its like employee east they dont mind and runs out of material pretty quickly given the less than 5 percent of its entire workforce is black so we guess it look couple of connections here an emotional peak that bathroom is a social media stunt the pundits will laugh it up and the books will stay balanced but it looks like they went and posted another on instagram they forgot to put a padlock on that closet busting with skeletons. Live and now something of a war being waged by activists against morning mince in the u. K. The Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has said it is shameful the statue of Winston Churchill is needed to be boarded up youve got a situation in which the statue of Winston Churchill who is a National Hero has had to be boarded up for fear of violent attack and that to me is both absurd. And wrong you should not have a situation which people who are protesting or for one group one basis are violently attacking the police or public property. Well the churchill statue was encased in a protective box after protesters dog he was a racist under his name last week churchill at the allies to victory in the 2nd world war but is now being accused of racism the some comments he once made londons mayor this week ordered a review of all monuments and street names to the praise of people who might be linked to slavery and also racism the war on statues has sparked debate on whether it a raise is the past and we asked people in the capital there. Are just people here to defend so statues and are support people different video you support people trying to take it down you know so i try to look at things from both perspectives theres a lot of good too should be hard if people dont like to talk about the bad to sri. One of the issues is try to be changed i didnt realise he was racist i didnt realise a lot of things hed done i never learned that i certainly wouldnt learn it from the stuff he outside. Or. I would. Praise you could actually learn from a museum or in school which is actually still in School People should remember that it was a lot harder but. I dont think a lot of the structure should be taken down after gags or balls its often bought the plots i think it should be no this isnt so good for the people who are living in a world where they have to be the cd. Well over in the u. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leading the fight there against confederate statues on capitol hill shes even sent a letter to the joint committee on the library asking for them to be removed amid the nationwide demonstrations against racism can you imagine Jefferson Davis alexander stephens. Treason it sure isnt against united no and theres a shield a bit harsher state. Here but this does come in with the Current Campaign in the country to take down symbols of the confederacy in Norfolk Virginia a statue of a confederate soldier has been removed after standing in its place for more than 100 years however official stated that the decision to take it down was made out of safety concerns earlier in portsmouth a man suffered serious injuries there after being hit by a statue toppled by demonstrators in total for statues have been beheaded in the city we discuss the war on monuments with a host of r. T. Americas own contact show chris hedges. I think its important to remember what the historian carl becker wrote and that is that history is what the president chooses to remember about the past so Historical Monuments are an expression of power an indication of who has power and thats the power to choose our history is remembered in public places. All of these confederate monuments the ones that youve seen coming down mostly in the south of course. Were put up in the late 890 s. The early 20th century. To a centrally remind of black people during jim crow and the period of lynching. Of the power and celebration of White Supremacy and there was a very conscious effort to exclude figures not just in terms of black leadership or those such as not turner and others rose up to rebel against slavery but also white including generals who didnt. Support segregation and White Supremacy while black rights movements have been famous across the u. S. Since the 1960 s. One of the most controversial the black panthers started by monitoring culps and Challenging Police brutality but we discussed the current rise of the black lives Matter Movement along with current civil rights in america with the renowned political activist and former black Panther Angela davis you can watch the interview in full on monday but has a quick taste of what was said. I think the world is able to see. This certain nation is far from hell c. O a Police Department so that was so dramatic expression of Structural Racism our prisons are full of black people. Like to know. That. We have to have an abolitionist imagination if we want to go into a future for our city and i was nation and for the world. Now police in the us are becoming increasingly stigmatized amid the ongoing black lives matter protests a major in the tosser Police Department there has been criticised for arguing officers arent specifically targeting africanamericans and he says he has the thing is that back up what hes saying he spoke with arties neil harvey. You had those isolated incidents rifles and go incidents that occur and especially on body camera video theyre shown over and over again so i think the general public thinks thats happening all the time in the states we make 350000000 contacts year and obviously the fast majority of those are not in the instance that occur we use force less than one percent of all arrestees but when that mistake happens you know were all healed that skinner all point that i would encourage your audience you go to Washington PostPolice Shooting database and they come pahl the state of source you can go back and look and since 2015 if you want to look talk simply about the unarmed individual shot by Law Enforcement if you break it down between africanamerican and white its 3 percent unarmed white shot unarmed and 2 percent of the normal unarmed black so theyre very even numbers and you know its race isnt a factor generally those numbers should be even theres a real sphere here in the states to actually talk about that and what ive been trying to say is weve got to be able to weve got to be able to have we can at least talk about those facts its really hard to move forward a problem solve a piece of power and use of Excessive Force by police in the us who goes right back to the Civil Rights Movement has been going on for a you know 50 is. Can you understand why there are coals even like a Public Movement to defund the police force do you think that that is the right direction to go in given that the problems have been around for so long isnt it time to try Something Different or is this the case of just making a bad situation worse if you if you start to defund thats a huge huge decision and youve got to really think about Law Enforcement in america is it well funded now i think were we have gone astray in america is Law Enforcement has been tasked with doing things that we never had to do from the mentally ill that that system is broken so Law Enforcement final straw that we end up you know about 60 percent of the people unfortunately have shoot this countrys are are mentally ill and forcing off which doesnt always know that on a sunny and so i actually. Why tarnish on some programs of the Law Enforcement to try to take some of that burden away small force what you cant do is you cant take funding from Law Enforcement and then asked Law Enforcement do the same exact work just to be very good but. Still ahead few 100 medics have now warned that thousands of protesters might be in danger of contracting 190. 00 because take gas is helping its transmission from person to person or take a closer look at the story. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy. Let it be an arms race. Spearing Dramatic Development only mostly im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very. Time to sit down and talk. What were seeing is a utter divorce an utter blip from the real economy and the Financial Lives funny money fed driven casino that is now taking over the globe this is causing to think big overlord class are becoming fabulously wealthy and the peasants are revolting theyve got to go to prison for america and were not sure. Hello again you with r. T. Now there is concern tear gas could dramatically increase the spread of covert 19 among protesters the issue has been highlighted in an open letter signed by almost 1300 u. S. Public health and medical professionals it comes amid the nationwide protest against racism thats been raging for 2 and a half weeks opposing the use of tear gas smoke or other response 3 irritants which could increase risk for cope with 19 by making the response track to more susceptible to infection exacerbating existing inflammation and in juicing coughing apart from Coronavirus Related Health concerns though there are those posed by the tear gas itself prolonged exposure or a large dose of it especially in a closed setting could lead to blindness it can also result in severe chemical burns the throat and lungs or respect failure which could be fatal however for the delfi is Police Commissioner still argues right control agents remain the safest way to disperse angry crowds the deployment of tear gas was a means to safely diffuse a volatile and dangerous situation and restore order when it became increasingly clear that other measures were ineffective in accomplishing that necessary objective said overall its just that one casting University Mohammed minear believes concerns about the use of tear gas at this time are justified. Actually then we look on to the dispatcher track inspection they are very easy to be cross mentioned and one of the contributing factors for the call of augustines right and take the whole word on nice they didnt for 5 months as bait is true just retrieval of prosecution so anything that can expose the respiratory track or create any additional damage to the spirit of traction