Transcripts For RT Documentary 20240712

When these companies were able to move their production offshore so you saw the ending of a number of Steel Companies the shifting of manufacturing to the global south where the wages were lower where the environmental rules were not either existed or enforced and thats the beginning of this concept of these transnationals they have the technology to do it they had the Transportation Systems to do it and frankly governments werent stopping them. And i remember one day i was i was working on the boss come up to me and says thats where were going home. I thought were going home early why because were close to very close. I dont know what to say. Because its a crying shame really is. I was a long time or a democrat but this last election before it came along i switched parties i switched parties on the republican now and. I think mr trump is doing a great job for us i think hes trying youre going to help the country you work for and i think you try to do that really does. That. Kind of doing little to no job in a neighborhood causes plenty of strains on part of peoples emotional state old peoples physical state but. If you could feed your family if you could pay your bills as soon as you went to a major state of depression. When the steel mill said al you know what i took a major part of the city away this was a a wedding awaiting Davids Bridal for us. This is 722. 00 steals 3 we have acquired this property from the bottle and county lead bank for a 1000. 00 house is pretty lets you know just the bad you know so its a lot of theres a lot of stuff thats the real thats over the house so a lot out but itll still have to go. Home you know we just have to clear a lot of the furnishings that was left over whoever was living here they werent here long maybe about a year 18 months max and then they were gone i didnt run across a suicide note that was left i guess either by the hose bed or the father of the house he stated that he you know. He was up in a bad position in his life right now and it was sorry for everything he had. And whoever was reading the note if they were actually reading the note they would find him hanged in a garage. For me if i came home a scene a note like that a project to scare the heck out of me i would he would want to see what was in the garage i would just be getting up out here which seems like thats what the family did because they left everything behind clothing always bedding furniture you know whatever whatever was here was was left. Mortgage companies you know foreclosed a lot of properties areas got bad you know drug infested you know drugs you know just pretty much saturated the city which caused a lot of people to pretty much flee to. The corporate coup detat it was begun in the early 1970 s. Lewis powell in his 971. 00 memo which he wrote when he was an attorney for the chamber of commerce he later became the Supreme Court justice talked about what he called the assault on the Free Enterprise system. And he called on corporations to use their power and in particular their money to build counter institutions and to take over and destroy liberal institutions. Institutions that traditionally gave a voice to the working class and cared about the rights and needs of the citizenry. But i dropped later charges that applied Car Companies with running risks that countered them but do. Quote perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American Business is ralph nader so if they do it to help new york city it will be to help the banks. Who thanks largely to the media has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of americans i hear do excuse im gone are justified in any way to getting us to matter i dont want to have a climate in this country where i want to ask the avonex that it. Exists and steely determination in order to speak truthfully and candidly critically of american industry the coal memoranda it was a combination of delusion and paranoia. He basically said to the Business Community youre going to hire a lot more lobbyist swarming over congress youve got a poor a lot more money into the their campaigns both parties republican democrat youve got to get out on the campuses and get right wing speakers. Progressive speakers he had the whole 180 degree. Constitutional. Do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States. People like reagan in an early form of modern optimism again switching everything back to if you like to pretend it roosevelt period i found americans in recent days all of us have been swamped by a sea of Economic Statistics some good some bad and some just plain confusing you see that red line represents the rate of unemployment from the 1968 through the present the congress should act on Regulatory Reform to help make government more economical and efficient and the private sector more productive tax reform and budget control our economy will be free to expand to its full potential thats our Economic Program for the next 4 years were going to turn the bull loose. Thank you very much. What youve done for me is better than not. Things were starting to happen in italy and. You could already see the cracks opening up so the gaps between rich and poor began growing. And trying to tell you there is no program or promise that a president can bake the federal government going in come in that you want to do this the only voice you heard was this. Voice of the inevitability of the marketplace i hear you and millions of other men and women like you stand for the values of hard work thrift commitment to family and the love of god that made this country so great and will make us great again. We saw the rise of what i would call the phone liberal class ah you spoke in the traditional feel your pain language of liberals and yet the situ asli carried out an assault against the citizenry on behalf of Corporate Power today as i sat on the north American Free trade agreement into law we are ready to compete and we can win. So its under clinton that you get nafta. Nafta allowed manufacturers particularly auto manufacturers in canada in the United States to move their production to mexico it was deliberate they moved their production their companies there because they had such low wages in mexico which did not help the mexican workers by the way this is false to say that mexico won it was a lose lose lose for the people in a win win win for the corporations down the hall to the white house east room he came with 3 of his predecessors in cairo with a real effort by mr question today with the stated doubters that hes prepared to fight for the greedy this is happened all over the world but particularly in the United States that the radical decline of the Labor Movement and unions which were Political Force even more importantly its and they were on the shop floor United States always had weak unions to come to countervail against the corporations and the peak there were 34 percent of the labor force but they are now down to 11 percent total and only 6 percent in the private sector so essentially the countervailing power base and institutional power base is gone and part of that was an all out attack by organized corporations and went after them today we are taking on this. Story chance to make welfare what it was meant to be a 2nd chance not a way of life its under clinton and you get the destruction of welfare and originally 70 percent of the recipients of our Welfare Program were children. Its under clinton that you get the 1904 omnibus crime bill crime has been a hot political issue years too often to divide us while the system makes excuses for not punishing criminals and doing the job because the democrats were taking back the issue of law and order from the republicans. Laws to incarcerate double double triple sentences 3 strikes youre out laws so that people could go to prison for life for nonviolent crimes. So there was an explosion in the prison industry. Which of course is a form of social control for de industrialized pockets they are often the kinds of kids that are called super predators no conscience no empathy and they used all the coded words super predators law in order. As the pillage was being carried out the white majority was being indoctrinated with this idea that marginal usually poor people of color were responsible for the destruction of the country the assault on their national identity. Or. John youre also a. Ok 321 twice over the past 8 months i traveled to the midwest to a city thats become a metaphor for many for jobs lost factories closed and the disappearance of the 9 to 5 middle class 40 year the down the candidate market beginning at the end of the scale dominate youngstown area economy there are no longer smoke stacks and much of it is covered by vegetation act ok they dont come are you doing that its depressing and to be honest with you youre cant talk about the valley and not talk about the steel and manufacturing. Them small regional lackey arms again you used to wake up in the morning to the noise of the Blast Furnace rumbling no i wake up to them tearing the facility down. The back skies are fine it will survive until they say leave the girl i. Clutch it is it this is a central plank support dying a poem is going to call them write down say stop to. It so many people because a copy is so bored that even such a bad puppy sending. Im not killed anybody. Killed the find the next guy. To feed. The deflection move. The to the deflection boards have to save. That is a god that i got out of many it sir. I think youre going to going to write about. That that you cant buy a gun thats a. Long long while and you know is along the bottom the shipping list which i like to control cannot. Handle a new person and they have to. Move 100 guns and new no more guns. On the seas. To go to you then im going to mock you join you. Join me everything on the all excited and sure and ill be speaking to us of the world of politics sports this list im show business ill see a. Town districts more just steel mills would be shut down by friday. Trying to recover from that they passed nafta in new york now theres great wall street good stuff nafta and on the west coast nafta is great because you got on board of los angeles you have the ocean there and thats coming from china and mexico and all that stuff goes to all those free traders there make a millions but the people here theyre hurting their jobs are gone these new jobs are those. Bombs in these countries whom we gave the police will again be hard to go by that plant now we know that bells and juice to work they are g. M. Employees learn friday afternoon that up to 1500 of them would be laid off when the 2nd shift is eliminated in the county says year old American Finance network the property the county treasurer. As office has been trying to collect taxes for 5 years and is in the poor closure process. This is truly a metaphor or wrong with both Americas Health care system which through mergers and corporate is ation take the community away from their own health care and from their own facility they did not need. It i did this this is another example of being able to walk away from your responsibility and then putting it back on the community thats already desperate and. Reaching kids here in the youngstown area where i found. I dont like to live in a trailer park i mean its not that its a bad park but its not who i am it is not just me theres 1100 still workers not to mention all the other facilities of 100 it supported the mill and a lot of people lost their livelihood what role do you think politicians play at all but i think theyve been bought by Corporate America and their puppets every single one doesnt matter if youre a democrat or republican theyre all corporate loans i dont think they can think for themselves i think they just do as theyre told so you wonder who was it who are the people who voted for donald trump quite a few were people who voted twice for barack obama and voted for Bernie Sanders that was even more astounding that made me say theres no way i can simply sit here and guess what folks are thinking i need to understand whats going on in peoples minds why this situation is far more complex than what we give it credit. And they actually brought up workers from mexico and the workers here had to train those workers that they knew were going to take their shops and then they had their workers. Back up the machines and shipped them down to mexico. Not anymore. This valley has a very rich democratic tradition. They voted democrat almost always until President Trump came along and upset the apple cart when i saw Hillary Clinton really struggling with trade issues and nafta and i sent a 4 page memo. I predicted in that memo that shes bleeding badly blue collar voters. And those are the voters in pennsylvania michigan wisconsin that could have turned the election and her standing on a stage in columbus i mean i dont mean to beat her up because i really do love the woman and i work for her but she stood on a stage in Columbus Ohio and looked out and said were going to put a lot of call miners and Call Companies out of business you got a blue collar job. Thats what they heard her say he never came around and said hey were going to put people out of work he said hey im going to put you back to work. When people are thirsty theyre going to drink any water they dont care the water is dirty d the. d it is. Your own bill there you go again. As you go out or you are for a couple and im certain there are heard about you or your you know you got snow that you know thats good which. Is why i asked them i saw you. Which you know the weather was a lot better of course and theres been this this tax cut most of course which want to corporations but some which went to middle class working class people are using any difference in your own feature about 20. 00. Well run it out what do you do with those 20. 00 what can you do with 20. 00 its gas you know how i have built it what about the tariffs i dont let you or your you cross the border to to work into up front of the. Head in the impact so far to youre no well i mean 1st of all i want to applaud the president for still cares we need to these years ago but ironically now this company man you know most of the mills like the 2 mills i put down you just cant find slabs made america our company has to go to russia to get. Donald trump is basically use the issue of steel and the conditions of Steel Workers those whove been laid off the last 2 jobs. And some talking point and now he. Says and seems to have many people believe that he is leading the charge to bring steel back to the United States and to youngstown in order to bring still back to this area you have to have somebody thats willing to invest in building new Blast Furnace as new electric are cornices that melt down and put it in slab youll never see 12021500 people working in a facility and a spill knowing. Use radio fi so if you dont you can be anyone for good afternoon 3 o 7 as we get underway here today all right i think it takes courage to do what President Trump is doing i think it takes courage as i said he is a president s the does of us is a marketplace he views this as a nation not speculating on whats going to happen im looking at whats taking place right here and right now when it when it comes to trying and im looking at whats happening in this community you know whats thats thats where. What i want to say about him is his policies contrary to what you believe have not benefited Middle America thats what i want to talk to the voters about lets look at what i just said these guys we have people getting bonuses and raises locally as a result of that tax cut it has been a fan of this community hold that thought well come on whatever happened to you worry about the deficit always sudden be more than happy to talk about that because it says if we can get 4 to 5 percent growth guess what a lot of novels are solved. Overnight between Companies Really called product in the are reversed is not a regulation thats going to create jobs ok it is a regulation designed to take care of billionaire but. That when i come back in a minute. Over the last 8 years. Its been 16 years. This should say we should millionaires and billionaires. Prosperity trickles. Response to president obamas 2008 election there was a counterrevolution billionaires and powerful corporate interests were terrified that obama and democrats in congress would tax the wealthy that they would redistribute wealth in this country but they would overreaching Health Care Reform and in response to that the corporate interests they funded hate groups and front groups to oppose the obama agenda and to whip up hate in society to divide americans race and class and religion. Muslims build mosques where they won military victories they want to build. More islamic terrorists killed 3 youths. It was in america just like the japanese building that pearl harbor. They placed advertisements on television scapegoating muslims claiming that promote Justice Reform will put dangerous criminals on the streets showing pictures of africanamericans and and conjuring racial fear maybe if we. Seize all. These i think. It was. This was not because billionaires and major corporations necessarily believes in these messages but they wanted to undermine Political Support for economic reform. This Supreme Court today handed down a landmark ruling on Campaign Finance laws in a 5 to 4 decision the court overturned century old restrictions on corporations from using their funds to advocate for a specific candidate the majority opinion affirms corporations have 1st amendment rights and that the government cant limit their political speech. They have done things like allowed unlimited infusions of Corporate Cash as the right to petition the government or a form of free speech its a complete inversion so youre a Constitutional Rights are still exist on paper but have been reinterpreted to essentially bolster Corporate Power and that has left us utterly defenseless as a person youre worried all that theres too much money in politics if you believe that we ought to go back to moderately that the people are such sheep that they just swallow whatever whatever they see on television or read in the newspapers shafter this misfires. How much is enough for. The richest one percent of this country owns half our countrys wealth financed trillion dollars i create nothing. I only. Make the rules out a new war peace famine of evil a price to pay for cliff we picked out a rabbit out of a hat why but its out there want to know how they did it. Now youre not naive enough to think were living in a democracy are you buddy. I would argue that welling gaged in the act of cutting our own artery. Whether its throat or the wrists for slipping into. Its largely because weve allowed ourselves to be convinced by our own elites as a democratic system is a secondary product of the free market. They think that even the people in the youngstown who voted for obama thought that there was a real turning point that we can get a. Black president and that would set everything in motion that we didnt recognize that change was soul happening in the spectacle of the white house. And you see news in the system were always there and they think obama knew how to play them very well but he was also playing to an audience. And i think that once that audience started to catch on bet their lives werent changing and we were dated back to not only what does he know year but what is the most paper for the year and that has been the fierce were back to the right. Is youll be a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. High salacious whole community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. Directly to what is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Of the shallowness. Welcome to our viewers from around the world live from Central London this is r. T. You carry. A spike in your local covert infections across Northern England with yet another town trying to avoid lockdown as the Prime Minister warns probably imported 2nd wave from europe will hear from a local doctor shortly. The flu shot treasury considers slapping on line businesses with a hefty levy to create a level Playing Field with the highest rate of industry blooms it just means higher prices for Consumer Review from an economics expert. Young black asian and minority ethnic men the twice as likely to be falling for breaching a lockdown rules as young white men will be speaking to the chair of the black Police Association Charitable Trust. And the cats becomes the 1st pets in britain to catch corona virus which you can look at the risks and separate fact from fiction. Localised infection rates continue to rise across england as the northern town of black burn as overtaken leicester in the midlands as the key coronavirus hotspot that says oldham brings in tougher restrictions to avoid a full lockdown and the Prime Minister warns of a 2nd wave from europe r. T. Because hes and he joins me now so where all of that and the worst hotspots. What weve seen for quite a while black being one of the big hot spots in the United Kingdom in england certainly and it still is with rates of an infection rate of around 75. 00 per 100000 people and of course now we have seen local authorities that try to put some measures in place you try to tamp down any outbreak or any larger widespread outbreak lester still in 2nd place of course that was the city that caught the headlines when they were at the 1st of the local areas to be put into a local lockdown if you will oldham there around 482400000 in terms of the infection rate but thats a massive jump from around 11 pm 100000 just last week so all of this leading to and many alarm bells ringing and many fears of that being a 2nd wave that something which Boris Johnson the Prime Minister has been warning Business Leaders about saying that if measures are taken and if businesses and the whole country in general dont stick to the type of search for this is it for example we could be seeing a 2nd wave very soon. Im afraid you are starting to see in some places the signs of a 2nd wave of the pandemic and we all remember what happened last time its absolutely vital that for that we make the necessary preparations here in the u. K. As we are doing vital that we all continue to observe the rules on social distancing washing our hands Wearing Masks in in shops and on public transport and so on all of them being you know one meter with medications or 2 meters apart Everybody Knows what the the rules are thats how well help ourselves a but also its its vital that when people are coming back from abroad if theyre coming back from a place where im afraid there is another outbreak they must go into into quarantine now of course this comes at the very same week that weve seen in the u. K. And Boris Johnson putting restrictions on flights coming in from spain in terms of people having to observe quarantines but the infection rate in spain in mainland spain is around 35. 00 per 100000 so thats lower in some cases considerably in some of the hot spots here in the u. K. So you know there are some particularly on the continent especially in spades you might be asking now whether theyre the ones who need to restrict drips from entering that country. Thanks for that update well for more on this im joined by local doctor anna having had a very good of you to join us this afternoon other Prime Minister is urging caution about a 2nd wave coming from europe but does the data from Public Health england suggest its already started here. I think thats really difficult to tell so busy all the countries are very different in the way we live in the population densities and within the u. K. Those differences within our structure and i think that its on it inevitable that the virus will bounce back a little bit much is going to happen is difficult to say at this point right so these local flare ups that were seeing could be contained it doesnt actually mean a 2nd wave as a mash nor 2nd wave is guaranteed now i think that we just have to go right back to basics right back to where it started by following government guidelines that came out in march and handwashing stopping touching and touching surfaces touching surfaces and touching the face and making sure that if youre coughing youre coughing into the tissue that in it or into your elbow if we go right back to basics we have the best chance of controlling spreads now in the pockets of spreads where you have a lot of People Living in close proximity and looking in those areas damn thats going to help the rest of the day in some respects but i think we do just still have to be cautious anyway wherever we are so that we make sure that were looking into the code apps making sure that the the great population evidence is being collected so that the government can make these rules and regulations across the u. K. To benefit the people that live in all the different spaces so you think that these local lock downs can be effective i think if the statistics are correct and theyre treating the local areas sensibly and the numbers are actually right then yes i do because we dont want people traveling in and out of their areas where the coronavirus is multiplying case a case that its about. Government trying to encourage people back to the office to save the economy. Well i think that thats another balance and obviously weve got to look at the economic challenges is not alongside the viral spread and what that means that raise population without an economy then obviously theres going to be public and ill health through many different other mechanisms so it is very important to get back into the work space it is very important for Mental Health its important for children to get back into their social networks as its on holidays now but come september its really important we do try and get back to as normal life as possible but of course come september when were heading towards autumn the winter months also mean flu season it doesnt it happens every year so the n. H. S. Is very chilled into the fact that the colder months bring out different viruses obviously there is the flu vaccination that many people should be having maybe that could be more widespread its very easily accessible through the n. H. S. Is to me for in touch or too expensive through private clinics and even the high streets and chemists so that is an option that lots of people can look cats i think the other thing see remember is flu in itself is prevalent every year and it does affect a large number of people in the population just like the corona virus has. And it would be really interesting if it is possible to try to isolate our agency absolute versus grown ups and see what the difference is in those numbers just a final thought then the flu jab is central to have particularly for the other fiftys and more vulnerable than the this year when i think its a very good thing to have if you are in the line of fire say speakers as Health Care Providers but also is it is a very good thing to have if you are on the list of wonderful or and have a medical condition that makes you will susceptible to be more effective by influenza and current guards and i thank you very much great to talk to the softening dr out of having thank you. The u. K. Treasury is reportedly considering a so use tax on old line businesses which have seen a boom during the pandemic in lockdown but what the government says is about creating a level Playing Field with the whole street industry chiefs warned that any levy will simply be passed on to consumers or you could shut it was dusty joins me with the details what could be the impact of all of this talk speed well we already know that the future is completely online but of course the coronavirus lockdown has essentially accelerated that very notion of course at the beginning of the pandemic the governments advice was to stay at home at that point and nonessential retail shops were forced to close their doors which meant at the same time we were seeing an absolute boom and online retailers and people doing Home Deliveries online battle skyrocketed however here we are now as nonessential shops have now reopened their doors but they dont seem to be doing as well as the government would have hoped as a result the government are now trying to level that Playing Field between the online retailers and indeed the high street shops by introducing a new sales tax online the government in visit is that it could be around 2 percent which could potentially raise 2000000000. 00 pounds for the treasury every single year but of course it is raising a lot of concerns within the industry as high prices from big sellers could ultimately affect the consumers that could hit their consumers the absolute hardest really soon at the chart so there has defended this move saying that it would provide a sustainable and meaningful source of revenue for the government which is also causing a lot of concerns where some people are criticizing the government as using this as more of a fund raiser to really foot the bill of course the government putting a lot of money into various facets within the mitigation of the pandemic throughout the entire lockdown period for the individual on an individual level though some say its those that are housebound and the disabled that have really going to have to pick up the pieces when it comes to this online sales tax now earlier today i went out into the public and it seems that there was a mixed reaction to this new proposal. So well see if theres an extra cost on internet shopping then it might make people go back to the high street which is needed at the moment now i dont think i dont think i can write the high street im prefer one thing it will be in a way so i never have time to go to something. A little bit more online spend a full preview which is not the way to do so things might be if things were cheaper in the street people to go to social class online and i did see one should pay extra full about i think the high streets are in difficulty but they have been for a very long time and i think that they have found a way to come back Online Shopping and i dont know whether its fair to be taxing the one such of the economy that is actually booming in the pandemic so it seems covert or not it looks like the high street has been shutting up shop for quite some time and merely a tax introduction online doesnt say michael be enough to save the high street or indeed the treasury shadier thank you very much for that well for more on all of this im now joined by professor of accounting at the university of sheffield and emeritus professor of accounting at the university of Essex Prem Sikka from how do you know this tax makes sense doesnt it we we need to get people shopping on the high street. However built yes the principle makes sense but there are difficulties like with any tax there will be a threshold and if they are saying the threshold is i dont know 52000000. 00 whatever it is you can imagine a lot of businesses playing created games to avoid it and we know that the u. K. Government has never really been that effective in curbing organized tax avoidance so this will open up some new possibilities in addition to that you will find that there are many businesses in our street who simply dont have any Online Presence that whole whether its a local butcher the newspaper shop or Charity Shops or 2nd Hand Furniture shops so that means they pour more Business Rates would be retained and then you have businesses who do online and have brick and mortar presence such as tesco or marks and spencer so they will end up paying both her business rate and an online tax. How does the government really thought about this because i could actually result in double taxation because they are physical presence might not be reduced because they still need physical premises but there will still end up on top of the Business Rates paying an online sales tax and of course people are worried about taking the burden off of these extra taxes the consumer but we dont actually know whether this will be passed on to the consumer to eve because the bigger retailers might just simply suck it up. Well the past experience suggests for example to do with Insurance Premium tax that those taxes directly got passed on to the consumer and when it is expressed in a very specific way that it is an all in child tax i think Many Companies will treat it as a form of the v. A. T. And will try to pass it on but there is also another aspect which the government has not really explained who will actually receive the benefit that it is our lines tax will it be the Central Government all the local government because it is a local government local authorities which are in desperate need of revenues and if the introduction of all a line a sales tax means that the Business Rates are reduced that hows the government going to make good the hole that will create in local government finances you can imagine the government will have its own hit because of the massive impact kovan has had all on government expenditure and of course it needs to pay for the job protection scheme this is another way of clawing back some money well i think in the overall scheme of things one and a half to 2000000000 pound actually is not really going to make that much difference. To the government to the Central Governments finances so i think in some ways it is really a gesture to the lobbyists who are saying that well there are that we need a level Playing Field when when were dealing with all and business but i think the actual equation may be more complex realities think just fine is naive to think this could increase footfall on all countries high streets. Well it footfall the canned candy piece by many kind of ways a lot of people actually got used to having. Online dealings but many people still need to buy clothes furniture they want to touch things they want to feel them and it is really a case of how competitive the prices are in the high street and if many businesses are actually removed from the high street it is hard to see how the high street would actually be competitive so i think the government needs to think about how to remodel the high street what kind of a shape should it be obviously we can go back to the old kind of like now but nevertheless there is a huge opportunity to combine housing business outlets and detainment and leisure and other facilities in town centers so actually the town centers need to be remodeled professor prime 2nd thank you for being with us live this often but still to come this hour young ethnic minority men are twice as likely to be a pretty great of arsenal down rules as their white counterparts are joined by the chair of the black Police Association Charitable Trust surely would have paid becomes the 1st animal to test positive for corona virus here in this country we take a look at the risks and separate the facts from fiction. The world is driven by dreamers shaped by phone personally those credit. Sinks. We dare to ask. Young black and ethnic minority men with far more likely to receive police fines on the covered 19 lock down rules according to analysts is a fixed penalty notice is. Fines of up to 100 pounds were given for breaching lockdown regulations including large gatherings and house parties and the study by the National Police Chiefs Council revealed that a bay my men were disproportionately represented compared to their white counterparts people from a background 1. 00 times more likely to be fine than white people and young men were overrepresented by around twice the rate of young white men the chair of the National Police Chiefs Council said that the risk of bias would be looked into while it is a complex picture it is a concern to see disparity between whites and black asian or ethnic minority people each course will be looking at this carefully to assess and mitigate any risk of bias conscious or unconscious and to minimize disproportionate impact wherever possible after the killing of george floyd theres been a real look internally of the progress that weve made in terms of policing relationships with the black community in the inclusive of policing. Im not joined by a former superintendent and chair of black Police Association Charitable Trust roy logan leroy good to see you what do you make of the figures now these are small numbers of people being fined compared to the general population yeah but i think the same reports now its used in other parts of the Justice System is now playing itself out in the code. So this is them expire years or. That reflects in every aspect of its policing especially bold. So. This is then racial bias or perhaps it could be a statistical anomaly. Out out ike militate is right. Racial profile again on another aspect of. Our being. Based on assumption and not real clear because you know the whole of the legislation is about gauging encouraging or before. But we. Should be straight i mean. When its not an urgent question being asked me again in full. Into the most hostile form of interaction just might stop and search on the use of tasers etc so you know. Lets. Just say this of. Just try one more question is this not brilliant connection here that we do know of course that pain communities are more risk or the virus according to many studies and of course if there are gatherings amongst those communities then the police they really have to break up govern state they are otherwise if they didnt theyd be accused of neglecting their duty. Because you know we have seen. Superstar the. Opening of bars and such you saw nasa got the remains of all. This and saying no. It was. Ok leroy will probably well well have to leave it there thanks very much not as i said not a great connection but thank you so much we hope most of what you have to say there literally logan thank you and apologies there for that poor connection. An internal b. B. C. Review has ruled that a documentary on shortages of protective kit and the Health Service during the covert 19 pandemic breached its own editorial guidelines 7 viewers complained about b. B. C. Panoramas has the government failed the n. H. S. Programme over the alleged left wing bias of its contributors the executive complaints units found that one of the 6 stopped to sanya out of sorrow simply introduced as a doctor should have had her political affiliations explained she is a labor member and former Party Candidate this own guidelines of b. B. C. States that it should raise awareness of its contributors affiliations funding and viewpoints when relevant the unit agree that the nature and extent of the doctors political connections might have been relevant but accepted that an earlier correction on b. B. C. News was sufficient response was not the 1st time the corporation has found itself in hot water over the background of its contributors according to a list compiled by blogger we dove forks guests presented as experts on science and cuba are also being revealed as left wing activists apparent gov appearing on its Newsnight Programme was also found to be a labor campaigner and a staff nurse discussing the n. H. S. Crisis on b. B. C. Radio 5 live has appeared in a labor Party Broadcast will be speaking to a lawyer about this in a couple of hours from now. Tory minister could be better not because accuse the family of a boy arrested over playing with a toy gun in his living room of inflaming tensions over Police Action but in iraq wrongly claim the officers have been unarmed june incident the 12 year olds mother has accused the metropolitan police of racial profiling after her son kyle was handcuffed and dragged from his home a pedestrian alerted the police after reporting a black male with a gun from half drawn blinds late at night the gun turned out to be a toy and officers say that they have discussed the situation with the family we spoke to the boys mother. As you point out and she told us that Police Actions have caused her to lose trust in the thirtys and fear for her sons future. Sure what size disbelief i was angry with well whats the consequent away than that feeling of you know why he does d not involve in our own home d qualified to even making doing nothing without a car i 12 year old can i wonder if hes totally totally distilleries the kid so i think it was part maybe of him didnt quite believe what was happening. Even though through the guns israel has never seen the real them before hows it affected your trust and confidence and indeed relations with the police build a theory as a mother i can speak probably full of mothers who have young boys very very fearful of boys in Todays Society and young black boys i am more more fearful of him growing up hes not even even yet 12 so im so scared when he gets to 1516 how the police a delicacy frame how are they going to treat him this obviously seen as a big big threat right now and they came to the door clearly 12 your child immediately arrested him. On the possession of thought that was the suspicion start im terrified. Captions tested positive for corona virus for the 1st time in britain leading to confusion about the risks involved on his modern andrew separates the facts from fiction. The british weaponry Association Says that there is no evidence that peasants reservoirs or come become sick from it its driven from human to human transmission that said the virus and how you live on surfaces for some time including animals so the answer is to follow good hygiene practices and wash your hands in this Business News travels and changes fast now its emerged after the line friends can get the virus questions have emerged about how covert 19 transmits and infects we set the scene a very small handful of cases where cats appear to be infected from people that had cable. And certainly theyre higher the risk is from person to person certainly at the moment maintaining good hygiene practice we certainly there is no evidence to suggest at the moment a tool that he can go from past people a little bit over the top of us here we should understand what risks there are out there and i said he think its wrong to find out more but i think we need to kind of. A realistic about what what the real risks are the u. K. Government say this cat is thought to have been infected by its owners and not the other way around who had already tested positive for coated 19 the animal and humans have all fully recovered there was no transmission to other animals or people in the household and no evidence to suggest them or past the disease to the owners or that animals can Pass Coverage 19 on to people but you cant be too careful professor Joanne Santini from University College london a suggested that the u. K. Government starts up a Mass Surveillance Program of all animals that we humans but Animal Charities say that level of risk has been overstated essentially what you scientists are saying is that that kind of speculating on a situation that doesnt currently exists and we actually have no evidence will exist. So its not intended as its definitely not intended to make you know the normal people members of the public do anything different well refactored Scientists Say there is no cause for alarm but that hasnt stopped concern about pets and covert during lockdown animal shelters are twice the capacity compared to this time last year even with this latest case something its simply underlines how important existing covert 19 measures are just like human hands the virus could be on our pets so that is why is Supreme Court says youre practicing these with good hygiene practices so making sure that actually before im done after your income tax you are washing your hands the rate was so much now using hands on its i said we would be asking people not to be oakley comes and because it is still the case and has been throughout the pandemic that theres little to no evidence that pets are easily infected with it by this and is no evidence that pest can transmit the virus to people so we are asking people not comes and but good hygiene practice says we should be advising at any time so making sure that people are washing their hands they really are using Hand Sanitizer after that they need contact the pets pet owners will unquestionably be worried about this latest development although all the data shows its very rare and animals only gets mild symptoms but it does show that as more is discovered about the virus keeping an eye on our nearest and dearest including our very friends is more important than ever right andrews to u. K. Love that. Ill be back with more news and often a. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see you then. Danny and by north its funny people because they copied him you saw more of that even such a bad copy sending. Im not filled with love anybody and the guardian on the field to find the next guy. Down cock a lot looked up live again in the human being done the envelop the feed read the rug she even dumped the adult. Life