To. A very very warm welcome to you from our team here in moscow this is r. T. International bringing you the days top stories from around the world our 1st dominating headlines protests over the death of george boyd while being detained by Minneapolis Police have raged for a 3rd night late on thursday night a local Police Station was set on fire. It was. Because it was. The police say protesters forced their way into the building and set it on fire personnel had been evacuated from the precincts before hand the city of minneapolis via social media said there were unconfirmed reports gas lines leading to the building had been cut they advise people to leave the area to the protests calling for justice for George Galloway to have spread from minneapolis to other cities. I. Was. I. R ts alexy are says kaye has witnessed similar events unfolding in baltimore and ferguson reports. Everything happening in the United States these days for the last 3 nights at least is somewhat of a groundhog
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 Angel
President donald trump the president will reportedly target facebook and twitter in an executive order regarding social media according to a draft that appears to have leaked online now the draft version of the order which could still change names Facebook Google and twitter and targets a section of u. S. Law under which tech platforms largely arent liable for what their users post and are fairly free to police content joining us now to discuss the above cohost investigative journalist of course ben swan now. Theres a lot on packer what exactly is the rule that President Trump is attempting to amend and why is he actually doing that and how big of a deal would it be for these social media companies. Yes so for started at the very end there its a very big deal its actually something ive been calling for for about 2 years the president now talking about whether or not he can or cannot do this the truth is we dont even know if the president can do this lets talk about what hes trying to d
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 where 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 the timeliness of the reaction in years past in cases like baltimore and ferguson and miami and Los Angeles P
It is a cooling cloudy start to our friday. Temperatures running in the low to mid 50s. A live look at our Treasure Island camera, we can see the clouds in the sky. Mostly cloudy skies and some peeks of sunshine as we go through our day. Sistine San Francisco, 68 for a high and san jose and 67 for concord. A strong ridge of High Pressure builds in for the weekend and i will let you know how warm it will get in your neighborhood coming up. Lets check in with gianna with a look at traffic. Good morning, lets look at the roadways. There have been a number of changes to mass transit this week. I want you to stay updated on that. One of the latest changes happened this week, the vta light rail where service resume from 6 am to 6 pm. But again, a modification to the schedule and modifications to bus services as well for vta. They made several changes this week as well as focusing only on their 17 core route. And for bart, Weekday Service running trains for the Weekday Service. Just a heads u