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Svetlana tikhanovsky was actually one of them. so there is no protest activity in belarus now whatsoever. the authorities are threatening everyone who even subscribes to so—called extremist position channels to go to jail. you can be jailed for posting a picture on social media with an opposition white and red flag and other symbols, so the protests, unfortunately, is seemingly happening outside of the country rather than inside. a reminder of our top story, after several hours of debate in th...

The weeds to understand how significant this is, as a sign of where we are with extremist movements around the country. the patriot front is a group, we all know well from charlottesville. they started out as vanguard america. and then, they -- in the aftermath of the -- the mess, the disaster at charlottesville, they re-branded themselves as a patriot front. they have now been engaged mostly in protest activity and distributing leaflets and things of that nature. so we dont have any, specific a...

Challenging it is, the job we expect our law enforcement leaders and officers to do day-to-day, certainly with groups like the proud boys and others who have a history of violence, who have a history of provoking violent encounters within protest activity, no police chief wants to have the next charlottesville on their hands. and with having learned the less sons of the mistakes made in charlottesville, you have to expect that any solid, competent, professional police chief will make the same de...

>> we dont know what the extraordinary costs will be because of the additional location, the additional location for the fireworks and any protest activity that results from it. we would typically seek reimbursement from the feds. >> youre still seeking reimbursement. >> we went over $7 million because of the amount of protests activity that we had and we will continue to seek money back from the feds to pay for those costs. our congresswoman is moving the bill to make sure we get the money back...

And although i havent seen the intelligence, i would absolutely have no problem believing that hamas was helping to at least inspire or organize some of this protest activity, certainly within their wheel house and said what they believe their interests are. we have done -- we, international community, have done nothing to necessarily try to stem that this angst, the grievances, or try to successfully bring to a close the tension between israel and palestine. and i do believe that israel has a s...

Still a number of protesters sitting in the crosswalk so its going to take them a while to move them out. i think thats why they brought the water cannon as a sort of last resort to push them out. >> atika, help me if i can just jump in. help us understand, for people who dont know hamburg and the area, how far are these protesters actually from the summit itself, from these high-level meetings? >> reporter: this is about three kilometers from the messa, which is the conference center with the g...

Conversations about how were going to make our city better, how were going to address policing and those conversations are being cut short because people are forced inside, sort of in the absence of any real need for that. >> one of the things that weve been watching on social media today and it hard for us to verify but i will say were seeing a lot of reports that seem to reinforce the impression that the curfew is only being imposed in certain parts of baltimore. baltimore is a big city. its m...

Conversations about how were going to make our city better how were going to address policing and those conversations are being cut short because people are forced inside sort of in the absence of any real need for that. >> one of the things that weve been watching on social media today and it hard for us to verify but i will say were seeing a lot of reports that seem to reinforce the impression that the curfew is only being imposed in certain parts of baltimore. baltimore is a big city. its mor...

>> quite a night of protests. interstate of miami shut down by marchers. police detaining people outside the art institute. a die-in, so-called, at grand central station. go to times square. will riply. last night before we went off air, there were a number off rests made. im wondering the scene now. and wondering if police are preparing for what may happen? >> for the past several hours, times square has been empty. hearing fire engines unrelated to any protest activity. we know three hours ago...

Minister and voted for amnesty for those who were detained for protest activity and free the former prime minister who was jailed by president yanukovych for corruption. his imprisonment was vowed as politically motivated and that would need to be signed off on by the president. this news was celebrated by some. and the wounds are fresh. the funeral for a journalist who was beaten and shot and was held head. he was killed tuesday on his first day back to work. and finally there is an outpouring ...