Racism and policing, and the role of Police Unions. Come to order. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning and thank you to everyone for being here for this important briefing. Black lives matter. I cant breathe. Hands up, dont shoot. No justice, no peace. These powerful phrases are rallying cries for fair minded americans seeking to live up to one of this countrys core principles. Equal justice under the law. Since our nations founding, africanamericans have struggled, fought and died for the right to be free and equal citizens. This month marks 99 years since the tulsa race massacre, where an entire, vibrant community was destroyed and black men, women and children were systemically murdered. Today is juneteenth. A holiday that celebrate s the freedom of black people in america. That freedom did not come until 1865. Two and a half years after president lincoln abolished slavery. We are still working for freedom and we are still working to provide equal opportuni
All of the chaos coming just hours after the minneapolis officer who put his knee on the neck of george floyd was arrested and charged with murder and manslaughter. Were live across the country as america begins to fracture. Mixed messages. President trump trying to calm nerves nationwide saying he spoke to the floyd family. I understand the hurt, i understand the pain. That after a rose garden event where he didnt say a word about america in chaos and which controversy raging over his tweet saying when the looting starts, the shooting starts. What hes now saying about that tweet. Big news for the big apple. New york citys mayor making a major announcement. The epicenter of the coronavirus will begin the process of getting back to normal in less than two weeks. What life will look like now in the nations biggest city. Those stories, plus take two. Nasa and spacex hoping the weather cooperates for a historic manned launch at Kennedy Space center after the previous attempt was scrubbed a
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Moscow thanks for joining us today on r. T. International hawkins. Welcome to the program. Lets begin with the latest updates on covert 19 big lobel pandemic is into a new month those confirmed cases are still soaring that now surpassed 3300000 there is some hope that 1000000 people have recovered the grim number you can see though in terms of fatalities now stands at more than 234000. But we start right here in russia where Prime Minister has tested positive for corona virus becoming the highest ranking russian official known to be infected. It just became known that the tests that i took for corona virus gave a positive result in this regard and in accordance with the requirements i must self isolate and comply with the instructions of doctors i have to do this to protect my colleagues im planning to remain in active contact with my colleagues via phone and Video Conferences but yesterday it was reported that he had to see a High Temperature this night celsius but he leaves behind a
In a lob u. S. National intelligence authorities and this is important have rejected the conspiracy but many inside the white house including the president have still played it up sans real evidence critics charge what the white house is doing is deflating or deflecting attention away from the fact that the u. S. Is response to covert 19 fares well poorly compared to that of most developed countries including south korea and now even italy but the u. S. Dealings with china are not confined to a war of words between washington and beijing c. Theres also this last week the United States sent b. 52 bombers into the South China Sea as a show of force in the region and then over the weekend 2 more u. S. Navy ships were sent to patrol the South China Sea the u. S. Government and the u. S. N. S. Cesar china. Yes both being assigned to patrol the area off the coast of malaysia where the u. S. Accuses china with stealing the countrys oil supply china argues look the region is part of the South