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Police in minneapolis has now turned into a National Protest movement in different u. S. Cities demonstrators are taking to the streets and in some cases these protests have turned violent. We begin in Minneapolis Police there and demonstrators have been clashing for more than 2 days now with opportunistic looters taking advantage of the situation late last night memphis angry residents there took to the streets to demand justice and to ask for investigations not just in George Floyds case but for many in their own city civil rights activists say memphis has a spree of Police Incidents that remain unresolved and in los angeles angry demonstrators took to bypasses in some cases attacking Police Vehicles as they approached leaving several people injured. If there is a kernel of hope or at least a difference in how past cases of police abuse have been handled compared to this case its the timeliness of the reaction in years past in cases like baltimore and ferguson and miami and Los Angeles Police officers would have called for and been granted long exhaustive time consuming investigations while the officers were put on leave with pay or demoted to a desk job in this case the f. B. I. Was called immediately and the officers were fired from their jobs within hours of the incident still but the anger and the fires smolder so were going to be bringing you details of what. Is happening in those cases with analysis and were also going to drill down right here on the news with rick sanchez where we believe its time to do news again. Ok here we go the list of the questions we think that youre going to be asking tomorrow. Lets start with this can america handle racial disturbances and a pandemic all at once while the citizens of hong kong once again taking to the streets is the earths Magnetic Field actually tilting. Whats that mean for you. But were going to begin today with discord throughout america the death of george floyd is causing citizens to outwardly question authorities and all of this is happening at a time when america is coming to grips with the worst health an economic crisis perhaps in our nations history it is to say the very least a very unfortunate very untimely combination of events we have 2 reports several guests we begin with r t correspondent Michelle Greenstein reporting on the situation in minneapolis where this incident 1st began. Wednesday the 2nd straight day of protests against Police Violence in minneapolis minnesota people gather and hold signs reading justice for george and prosecute the police. Protests were sparked by the death of george floyd who was heard crying out i cant breathe until you lost consciousness being held down with a needle in his neck by a Minneapolis Group this man was murdered by police unjustly and not only should they be fired which they are they should be cruelly prosecuted and put in jail some protesters take issue with the fact that the state has a monopoly on guns and violence but guess what were not all are not the only problem here power though and i could have done something so i can protect my fellow and other. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets from the rooftops. As the canisters explode and tear gas clouds fill the intersections demonstrators try and document clashes with their phone. Autozone. Target and dollar tree all came under assault by both protesters seeking vengeance and eventually looters. The demonstrations carried on into the night with protesters conducting sit ins on city streets with impromptu chance like this one. Thursday morning the destruction of the night before looms in the air part of the auto zone store is still burning and so is the target. As the afternoon sets and crowds start to accumulate again. As for the 4 officers involved in floyds death they have been fired the protesters say they will continue distracting business as usual until the officers are charged with murder for the news with Rick Sanchez Michel Greenstein r. T. Its not just minneapolis another American City feeling the brunt of the death of george floyd d at the hands of police in memphis tennessee where hundreds of protesters there shut down streets in order to demonstrate against their own Police Department which they say has been interesting residents for years. So we. Think. That scene is from memphis. Well its through this let me take you to los angeles in los angeles residents took to the highways and the underpasses blocking traffic taking on Police Cruisers and holding vigils and very loud demonstrations to angrily protest the death of george floyd who died thousands of miles away here now with more on that story from los angeles is correspondent natasha sweet. Tensions are mounting between police and those calling for justice in George Floyds death several 100 protesters blocked traffic on the one freeway near Downtown Los Angeles wednesday shocking images reveal to california Highway Patrol vehicles were attacked protesters are surrounding one vehicle smashing in the windows one protester climbs onto the cars hood taking a hard fall as the officer drives off here you can see the man is covered in blood as he lays on the ground unconscious he is treated and taken to the hospital by an ambulance a 2nd Police Vehicle seen also has its windows smashed in by protesters activists gathered near city hall marching through the streets just before getting onto the one freeway blocking the flow of cars Officials Say traffic on the expressway was much lighter than normal as a result of california stay at home orders for the crown a virus pandemic just before 630. 00 the crowd moved off the freeway back onto the streets of downtown into the evening some protesters were seen and burning an American Flag upside down carrying the remains toward a row of officers in los angeles protests came just hours after l. A. Police chief Michael Moore issued a statement condemning the video of floyds death as incredibly disturbing reporting for the news of Rick Sanchez Natasha suites r t r right this is an important discussion that were about to bring you that has to do with much of what is being discussed right now in america and dining room tables and kitchen tables all over our country joining us now is ed martin knew the author of the conservative case for trump and Robert Patillo who is a radio show host and a civil rights attorney thank you gentlemen for joining us. Maybe we should start with this can we stipulate among the 3 of us that what we saw on video happened to george floyd seems like an abuse of power by a Police Officer yes sir you agree yes sir yeah pete i think i totally agree i think all and i think all men and women of every color stripe age location should agree with that what we saw was a man suffering and then he died and i mean this is a devastating moment and so i think of thank you for starting with that rick thats not acceptable behavior and makes me sick to see it and i dont think he should anybody republican conservative liberal democrat lets lets agree on that i agree ok good then maybe we should talk about the other issue and maybe that thats as important as well and that is the fact that unlike cases that ive covered as a reporter many times Baltimore Ferguson miami l. A. I go way back ive never seen a police chief act as fast as this police chief acted in both a involving the f. B. I. Right away and firing the officers within hours of the incidents can we stipulate that that was probably a good thing and i think hey bob robert i think i want you to attend this one yes. Absolutely way it will do is what it will do proper action i think the reason that we have the protests that we have right now is because we have seen a complicity in the prosecutorial apartment and not arresting these individuals and charging them from the get go if you or i put army also is next and they die we go d to jail they figure out Everything Else later so the fact that these men are still walking the streets not arrested is the reason for these protests over here other people so robert i think what im hearing you say to be fair is yes this is the fastest that any municipality has ever acted in punishing 4 Police Officers but they didnt go far enough because we didnt really want them fired we wanted them prosecuted on the spot thats what im hearing you say correct. Like any other citizen who calls it the unjustified death or homicide of another individual you let them go through the criminal Justice System you do not allow so money to go to kill somebody had to go home point well made well defended im gonna let you speak take it away well listen i you know you mentioned Rick Ferguson i was chair of the Missouri Republican party when ferguson the great tragedy happened that young boy who died it was a tragedy every death we should stop and say how did this happen but in that case the officer was vilified and that and the situation was much more complicated i agree the images we saw of what that officer did on the neck of that young man and he died is horrendous after that i do sink we have are having protests about concerns and injustice we need to be careful to conflate them with this situation i do think that we ask our officers to be on the front line i dont think it excuses any behavior but i dont know the whole story and i guess i think they should have been suspended immediately and then get to the bottom is what it did she may have found that out quick enough but the riots and the burning of buildings and endangering other lives based on concerns this 2 of the members of the police force or fire people of color ok this was not a white on black this was a bad cop situation if thats the facts let me robert let me let me bring you back into this discussion i think this is an important discussion would you make america everybody whos watching us and by the way we have viewers right now all over the world millions of people are going to hear the sound of your voice would you help the world and the rest of us understand what is that got level frustration that you feel as an africanamerican that is being unjust help us understand that help us understand put us in the put us in the shoes of these people we see on the streets protesting who are just furious. Well what we have to understand is that every time we see one of these situations where you know unarmed black d man is murdered by his own government that for every time there is a video there are thousands if not tens of thousands of cases there are not on video months so when i was a law school was getting off a bus coming home from the library and found myself on the hood of a police car what done that my head in chicago the big leaving court as an attorney and get pulled over harassed by Police Officers after leaving court with those same Police Officers so the level of frustration youre saying is that this is emblematic of what other people are going through we have learned a whole so reform our criminal Justice System so all this was was a spark this was not catalyst to get people out to say its not about this its about everything thats happened to me in my house in my life and everything that i have seen before i think thats what im hearing you say good arguments on both sides look at robert great conversation i hope more americans have conversations like the one that we just shared my thanks to both of you. 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You know it doesnt really matter where youve been but batterers is where youre going right well see you Church Generations look back at the establishment media as the lead in the water pipes that drove the romans mad do you find yourself watching t. V. To turn your brain off to relax i want you to watch t. V. To turn your brain on im rick sanchez. Its time. To do news again. Hey welcome back im rick sanchez it appears today that china has finally made good on its plan to crackdown on hong kong for months protestors have been thumbing their noses at beijing calling for and in some cases being granted more separation from the mainland policies with which they disagree lets just been written about the expectation that china would be rolling in with tanks and even troops it any day now but finally what china did do was enact laws that they Call Security measures for hong kong and today the beijing government approved the measure officially approved the measure. Heres arties susskind taylor with more. With current of ours dominating the headlines since february many of the stories have to fall into the wayside but one making a comeback as the wild starts returning to normality the hong kong protests are now up to several months of her spiked us face to serious scuffles and not came up to the thousands of protesters took to the streets on wednesday the day ended on a really sour note with around 300 arrests and Police Using Pepper Spray bullets because they suspected some of the protesters had weapons including pecial bombs. We know that anti China Sentiment has been building in the region for almost a year but that was reignited last week off to beijing announced plans for a new piece of legislation the National Security all that has now been approved the bill has been approved by chinas legislature and it is possible that could even come into effect within a matter of weeks now that would ban treaty on terrorism really any behavior that threatens National Security also this week at m. P. s debating and not the bill about the National Anthem and that would criminalize insulting the anthem could see people face fines and potentially even jail time so frustrated people poured onto the streets chanting things like hong kong independence its the only way they see beijing and more and more as to theory and hong kongs express which seems strange because of course it is technically china. But since 1907 the area has enjoyed a large degree of autonomy under its one country 2 systems rule not one country that has taken a perhaps on usually high level of interest in the end to the feds of hong kong is that you ask and on wednesday before congress sections state might compare declared the hong kong could no longer be considered selfgoverning no reasonable person can assert today that hong kong maintains a high degree of autonomy from china given the facts on the ground while the United States once hoped that free and prosperous hong kong would provide a model for authoritarian china it is now clear that china is modeling hong kong afterward self washington has said that it will take action if for now when the bill passes and this is what president trouble all that mysterious he had to say on the matter were doing something now i think youll find it very interesting but i wont be talking about it today ill be talking about it over the next couple of days ok whats exactly on the cards and well have to wait and see but one thing is certain this is not going to do anything for us china relations the 2 are poor speak and all but compared to something washington does not take kindly to so weve seen trade wars shot rhetoric but in the wake of case that ninetys mr fragility has really talented to an open tension as the u. S. The latest china for the pandemic against all of this beijing has said that it will not tolerate any type of interference. With the question of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region National Security legislation is entirely chinas internal affair no foreign country has the right to interfere if anyone insists on harming chinas interests china will have to take all the necessary measures to firmly hit back some say that beijing has good reason to adopt such a strict turned off tool in the past we have seen u. S. Government employees meeting with some of the hong kong protesters and and washington from the outset has very actively. Coverage what it claims is home comes fight for democracy so it seems that while the wildest of new thing all in and beyond 19 the strain between these 2 nations is not easy and at the moment it looks like hong kong might well become the battleground whether that clash plays out. All right so taylor reporting for us and lets bring in George Galloway it seems george if we were going to even out the arguments here that beijing is saying look we just want to go in there and make sure we enforce security given what weve seen in the last several months that has gone on there residents in hong kong who are protesting would say well no what youre doing is youre encroaching on our freedoms whos right here george. Well i mean treason turnover is a months session are illegal in every country more or less i would have thought and insulting the National Anthem burning the flag in america there are often debates about whether these should be punished by law moscow 1 which is far more portuguese territory which came back to china the same time as hong kong has exactly the same security law and there hasnt been a stone thrown out of window broke and the difference is a significant number of people in hong kong dont want to be part of china and the United States in particular but britain also is encouraging them always important to walk in the other fellow shoes rick and imagine that was god forbid a succession of movement in say california or texas and china was encouraging Secessionist Movement and giving succor and comfort to act so i think stream violence really extreme violence against people and Property Private and public the United States would reject out of hand and china has rejected out of hand to you know whatever this mystery donald trump has up his sleeve. If he delivers a slap to china it will be 2 slots back i think only 30 seconds george but do you think it hurts the United States cause to be criticizing china because of the protests in hong kong while there are massive protests if not riotous conditions in 3 American Cities as we speak. I couldnt put it better. Certainly not more succinctly it would be a good thing for the United States if the president stayed home and attended to the serious and deep problems that exist inside his own country rather than going round the world trying to cause problems in other peoples countries George Galloway we thank you sir for other comments and obviously for the commentary here is Something Interesting for you the earth the place that you and i inhabit is surrounded by a massive Magnetic Field generated from all the heavy metals in the core of the planet that you know that its one of those nerdy but really cool things that we probably dont think about you see the sun which is 1000000 times larger than the planet it spits out solar flares it can even damage satellites but it cant hit us because were protected by these Magnetic Fields right one in the south one of the north but now for some reason this Magnetic Field is weakening why lets find out joining us astrophysicist one celerity hes joining us from berlin. I understand its tilting right its moving like Something Like 2030 miles to one side what is going on to get a great. North Magnetic Pull up here that has been moving for the last 20 use around a rate of 50 meters every day its moving from it its near i live in the north of canada at the world savior here and there is a change that we havent seen for a while what he said to be sweet is that a set of european satellites. How do you measure an anomaly in the may need field in the south atlantic recently was well known something that we have to protect our satellites against. Increasing inside the crease in the strength of that Magnetic Field by around 12 percent so youre saying the earths Magnetic Field is getting weaker. That is correct in a 150 years of measuring something Magnetic Field we were just looking around at 10 percent decrease of the strength of the Magnetic Field so all do think it can happen either that might mean the field is going towards that something that we have seen in the past would you say i mean if you reversal nor me the pole is going to become the south and it all and everything is going to convert magnetically or were seeing something that is just a mediation from just the regular magnet behavior Something Like their parents and you can have in your got rich well the earth is doing Something Else that is a 2nd possibility let me hit you with the money question here whats it mean to me as a as a as an earthling what going to happen is bad is good what the me. What is certainly bad for satellites and the communications electric grid its all of these essential services for the mother and i can be affected by and i want to make feel basically in the moment if you know its weakening in parts of the air it is going to lead to these charged particles that are coming from the sun in the solar wind to penetrate into be aired and that can damage satellites kind of thing communication grids and also electric rates remember that a solar flare at 3 produces the blackouts in the United States in the eightys so this is something that we have to be aware about but at the masses they need Something Like complete earth a storm that only happens in bollywood movies. Thank you for reminding us that because that may have been one of my next questions juan solaire astrophysicist well always good to talk to the smart guys thank you my friend i appreciate the information thats our news once again as we began this newscast we told you that there are 3 different cities in the United States right now that seem to be at the boiling point with protesters and in some cases riotous situations were going to stay on top of that for you well bring you the latest as it happens the news rick sanchez you see right here dont forget download portable t. V. So you can get the latest whenever you. International memorial awards are now open for entries. Media professionals are eligible whether youre a freelance journalist terms of media or part of a global News Platform to participate published works in video rich and full. Go to award dot com and to now. Seem wrong. To stamp out this thing becomes active. Engagement equals betrayal. When something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Every single culture on earth has prohibitions against killing. At the same time virtually every culture on the earth moon rewards you enormously if you use killed the right person one setting it is the most horrendous down wishing singing magine of all and in another setting is a wondrous thing that they will give you a medal for the people who vote through because of that the people will meet with you because youre good at tuning thats what im saying. Former new york governor George Pataki who helped lead his state through the devastating aftermath of 911 is here with his take on the federal and state level response to the coronavirus its all on this edition politic. One of the politicking on larry king he slammed andrew como the new yorks 19 nursing home deaths he also once warned donald trump could drive the g. O. P. Over the cliff hes a former republican governor George Pataki of new york he helped that state through the devastating aftermath of september 11th hes here for a one on one including what he calls americas great divide and whether it can be bridged thanks good seeing you again. Larry nice seeing you again getting on with the krishi at the efforts that are all right