The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. The governor of the state of michigan federal and state Law Enforcement are working together extremists never succeed in their plans, particularlyhen they target our dearly elected leaders. Six men have been arrested who are planning to abduct the governor and ovehrow the State Government. It looks like the nex president ial debate will go ahead after all. Now, President Trump has agreed to do it facetoface. A Record Number of coronavirus casesave been recorded worldwide. More than 330,000 new infections wereng noted in a day. We will lookt why theories known as qanon have been a major qanon has become actually planningifypes of violence in the real world. Lets begin with this pideve story in michigan. The fbi say it is charging six people in a plot tohr ove the State Government and to kidnap theovernor gretchen itmer. These imas the alleged kidnappers wanted to kidnap her in a remote location in wisconsin to stand trial for treason ahead of the president ial election. Several members were accused of inmurdtyrants or taking a city governor. Michigan held the news nference a little while ago. Last night, the fbi and Michigan StatePolice Arrested six individuals charged in a federal complaint with conspiring to kidnap the governor of michigan grehen whitmer. All of us standing here want the public to note that the federal and state Law Enforcement are commted to working together to make sure that violent exemists never succeed with their plans, pticularly when they target our newly elected leaders. The governor of michigan is holding a press conference right now. It threatens us all. Our ves. R families. Our jobs. Our. Econo it preys on our elderly and medically vulnerable residents, and has exposed deep inequities in ourociety. This should be a moment for national unity, where we all pull together as americahi to meetchallenge headon with the same might and muscle that put a man on the moon. Seeing the humanity and one another and doing our part to help our country g through this. Instead, our head of state has spent the last seven months denying science, ignorinhis own heal experts, stoking distrust. Ing anger. And giving comfort the governor of michigan, the woman at the center of the ory, talking about the National Response to covid19. But she is at the center of the story because a number of peopld have been arren connection with an alleged ot to kidnap her. Lets bring in a journalist covering the story from detroit, michig. Help us understand this alleged plot. Apparently, there were half a dozen peoe who got together,th actually sevens have in charge with felonies as well at the state level. In regards to try to overthrow what they call tyrants throughout the United States, they were looking at a number of governors across the United States. In particular, Governor Whitmer from michigan stood out because she has crossed swords with President Trump repeatedly, whether or not to open michigan. She locked it down tpreven the spread of the covid virus and received tons of threats from the time that for that she first did that in may. This parlar case seems got together and were discussing trying to kidnap her from her vacation home, whi is further away from the capital, causing a distraction with potentially firearms and explosives. And then to take her to a different state to try her on whether or not she had [indiscernible] does this come from outth of blue, or does michigan have his history of extmism . There has been a history of sorts of militia groups that wod go out and train in larger restry in the states and practice shooting and the like, going off on their own because they cou not trust the United States government. But there have been waves acerbated over the last few during tarticularly trump administrations time. As the election has been grown closer and the covid virus has spread. Their the problem is and the governor is a tyrant or sing them to do so. A few months back, the was a law passed in t state capital and a number of people went in not wearing masks, and automatic weapons. Overlooking thosehawould be voting as if there was an Upper Chamber and while they did not make overt threats, the idea was they were trying to do intimidation. This particular incident has gone beyond. By all accounts, violence was veryuch involved. E fbin has been workingis for a while. Who it recoiled from the fact that they were trying to kill police officers, along with all of this. E beca that, they were allowed to get this information thatom hadto light over the last few hours. Thank you very much indeed. We will stay in the u. S. Because today there has been tk about how and when the next president ial debate may actually be held. The Debate Commission says next wees b debate wivirtual. President trump at first said he would not take part, then it sounded like some the candidate said that should be pushed back. The latest fm washington. There has been another statement from the bite mp that says the debate on the 22nd should be the last one, that it is already very late. The latest dete in 40 years. They want the 22nd to be the lastne to take place in miami. Campaign wants. On thehe trump 29th. There is still no agreement between any of them, meanwhile, arranges all of these things has not been silent for the last six or sev hours since they dropped the bombshell about the virtual nature of the miami debate. I guess it is caught in some partularly Strong Political winds here because it is not just about the debate itself, it is about how the candidates look yes it is. Ate. Making their announcement abouturning this debate into a virtual one next week because effectively, you ended up tting joe biden and donald trump at least initially on the same side against the president ial commission. But, however, donald trump wants two more debates. That is the bottom line. He needs two more debates to try to turn things around. The bidens do not the biden camp does not wrut to be seen ing away from debates altogether. The World Health Organization is reporting the biggest crease inobile coronavirus cases in a single day. It has posted this on its website. Figure is 338,007 hundror 39 cases rd in the last 24 hours. Biggest increases the figure is38,739 cases reported in the last 24 hours. Pubs and restaurants will clo, overnight stays away from home will be banned. L ataid, no announcements will be made until monday. We currently are consideng what steps we should take. Obviously, taking the advice of our scientific and medical advisors and a decision will be made shortly. I able to right now give you what exactly is going to happen, but we will continue to take a proportionate and localized response, i think is the right thing to do significant in england, fromery over 550 in manchester per 100,000 to as low as 19 in other places. Other Media Outlets the threetier system. We think it ce tier one could be the loosest restrictions, the current rule of six would stay. Tier two would be a ban on mixing households and indoor that would kick in after cases reach 100,000. Tier three is the strictest, businesses and like pubs and restaurants would ha to close, hairdressers also likely to shut, sc and other businesses would remain open. The areas may be risk as of beds and if infections riset sharply. Many are already living with local restrictions. Rthe ma of manchester tweeted, dnocussion. No consultation. Millions of lives affected, it is posving ible to deal with his government. Others want more detail of the plan, too. This is leeds, where new rule s of some sort are expected. But precisely where, when, and how severe theyll is not yet clear. Too much complicated. T we do ow what they are going to do next. It is one big mess. We are going to have to people losing their jobs. Kill the economy. The leader of the council says we are uing discussions what they are expecting, tond understand why theres been a d elay in announcements until monday thagives a weekend ere people can go out as they please, and toif understan there is going to be a time restriction on this. To liverpool, where there are lots of cases and again, lots of questions to local leaders. You cannot have arneffective gont if its common media leaks. Denouncement by we have said all along, we want to havein an open and meul dialogue with governmentswhere potentially they could be facing even more stringent lockdown measures. Infection measures restrictions are coming in. We will talk about italy and belgium, the worse infection in europe with ready seven cases per 100,000. The prime ministeras warning of danger zone and the hospitals could soon be overwhelmed. These are pctures fromgue. We are told from monday next week, and door Sports Grounds will close for 14 days. Madrid and nine neighboring areas are impartial lockdown as of last. This ruling from the judges says that the order violated fundamental rights of return. Madrids infection rate very high, twice the national average. Here is spsealth minister reacting to the ruling. [speaking foreign language] lets always think first of sick ople, their families and Health Workers on this basis guided by the experts recommendations. We will make legal recommendations that protebls health. We are surehat the Regional Government of madrid will agree with this approach. The ruling means police will not be able to find anyone after the set curfew times. Hspain isding into a national holiday. People usually leave the cities for a long weekend. Is i advice from madrids president. We ask the people madrid to not leave the city and to follow all health recommendations, especially in the next few days. Next to italy, where face masks must be worn outside and indoors instead except for private homes. Italy has for now largely avoided the worst of th spike in infections that other countries in europe are seeing. But cases are rising too, as they were in theiddle of april. In order to combat this, the government has introduced new measures, require mandatory mask wearing outside across the country. The one exceptio is if you are in an isolated place on the beach, but not necessarily to wear it if you are a long way away from other people. The government is recoyoending that iare indoors in your own home, that you would wear a mask if you are mixing with people who are not from your household. Brussels is next. They areie exping a sharp rise in infeions. Cafesf closed for at least a month. Drinking alcol outdoors is now banned. Tricking establishments around here and cafes sh drinking estabnts around here and cafes, people who live here as well, it is closed from today. The situation is stark. Ece regional president , because it is a regionalion on top of what the belgium government out ofen every s people tested, one out of every seven is coming backe with a posit coronavirus result. All they have said is that people have become complacent, they have fatigued, and they have t describm as that closed for a mth. Plenty more on the pandemic at bbc. Com news. In a couple minutese will talk about conspiracy theories known as qanon and how social media platforms are taking action. The american poet is the winner of the nobel prize in literature. She is one of 60 people to win the award. Ocites on the reality of being human dealing with themes such as death, cldhood, and family life. She won the pulitzer prize. Here is herdi r a poem. It came to me one night when i was fallingsleep, that i had finished with those amorous ures to which i had lon in a slave. Finished withar love, my murmured. To which i responded that many profound discoveries awaited us, hoping at the same time that i would not be asked to na them, for i could not name them. But the belief that they existed, surely discounted for something this counted for something. Our lead sto comes from michigan. The fbi has arrested six men plotting to kidnap gretchen tmer. Every week on outside source, we produce a video that looks indepth at ne m stories of the week. We are going online. Malicious Conspiracy Theory has mifted from the Message Boards to thenstream. Qanon has moved from actually planning different types of violence in therl real now, the worlds most Popular Platform is trying to st it. Caqanon be contained . First, lets deal with wha is. Qanon is a Conspiracy Theory movement built around two central false beliefs. One, that q is a powerful person, and that President Trump is waging a war against satan worshiping pedophilese against tions elite. It began on the message board before rapid expansion onto facebook, twitter, instagram, and youtube. During the pandemic, we ha seenhe response of platforms take action. Twitter band accounts banned accounts, and faceboo doing the same. They say they will proactively look for content for removal. Facebook considers qanon dangerous. Twitter says it wants to prevent qanon from causing offline harm. But what danger and harm are we talking about . That brings us to the crux of this issue. Howrm qanons misinfoion connects to democracy and violence. Here we have the fbi in 29 saying that they are driving shamanistic carry out violent acts. One mabarricaded himself to a bridge near the hoover dam another shot dead in new york mob boss. He scrnled q o his hand in court. Then there is democracy. Qanons impact on the u. S. Election. Converted via facebook or other social media groups, and now have very bizarre ias about the democratic party. Qanon h influenced protests against covid restrictions aund the world. The end misinformation is pacting the discourse, but containing it ssoks close to n impossible. Facebook is well aware of this. Its statement on closing accounts is that this will take time and will continue in the upcoming days and weeks, might add months and qanons messaging and locatiolv constantly e. They are up against an idea and it is going to be a bit of a waccamaw all across social media for quite a while. There is no agreement on what online content is ok. Mark zuckerberg said, ielieve strong that facebook should not be the arbiter of truth of people saying things online. And the internet is full of people saying things that are false, whether its realistic or desirable to stop that is not an issue for faceboo or anywhere else online. Theery nature of the web this is a urnalist. There are millions of sites, it is muchore complex. The tech giants could do more, but we cannot expect them to police the entire internet. The fourth point is this. Ithi became apool of all conspiracy theories, collected other conspiracyt theories ab the illuminati and the kennedys. Contain. L, the harder it is to ile, the qanon story has reached ts inevitle moment. The New York Times reports that q annonbelievers leaves that being and from facebook is proof of the conspiracy, which of course it isnt, but the ban is p their convictions and why containing their improvement proves to be difficult. Im u. Kgration lawyers say that they areng b abused daily and accuse the government and Media Outlets for hostility. A statement saying, lawyers expeence abusi behaviors and receive threatening messages to do their job and being theg voice of the most vulnerable victims ockf torture, trafg, and other unaccompanged asylum seehildren. This has to stop. Taxpayers tthat same da home secretary id this. With those defending the broken system, the traffickers, the good doers, the labour party, they are defending the indefensible. We heard the same language from Boris Johnson when he wasan proposinncrease in police officers. Stopping the whole criminal hamstrung by what the home secretary would rightly call the lefty human rightotlawyers and her dogooders. s divisive language puts lawys and clients at risk. He has tweeted, the fact that a lawyer seeks asylum, it makes them a lawyer. Attacks on members of the legal good credit. Oes our country ni what is hap here in terms of what lawyers are doing, is upholding the rule of law. They are looking at givingte legitiays for individuals to ensure their status in e u. K. In terms of wheaer it i broken system or not, we have to look at the statistics. 73 of asylum applications do eventually result in a decision. In times of a brokenystem, it is really about looking at,k l at the quality and level of decisionmaking here. It is not the fir time we have heard conservative ministers being critical of the immigration situation in theu. In terms of what the a law society is experiencing, would you say the rhetoric is different . Es, it has been concerning in terms of what this rhetoric is that is coming out. Ltwhenately lawyers are just trying to do their jobs. And in line with what they are committed to do. It is about e is to uphold the rule of law, to ensure that ther fair and new process. When it comes to cisionmaking, where decisions are approved, these cases can be challenged in courts and these are deded by ultimately judges. Judges decide if cases are local the governor of the u. S. State michigan Gretchen Whitmer has thanked lawenforcement fourth running a plot to kidnap her and to overthrow the State Government. They for watching thank you for watching. Byebye. Narrator funding for this presentation of this program is provided by. Language specialists teachind spanish, french re. Raymond james. The freeman foundation. Ud byand Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pu americas neglected needs. This pbs station from viers like you. Thank you. [bright music] pbs a platform where anyone can come and share their stories. Theres a whole great list of pmpts to get you started. When i was 18 and joined the marine corps. When i decided to accept myself and excel. And its been an amazing journey ever since. This projectelp bring us together. To listen to each other. 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