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that trend continues into the coming weekend. low pressure still likely to be somewhere to the south of the british isles, this pattern is always going to bring some areas of rain, perhaps some thunderstorms for the near continent but with it some rather humid air and it's not going to be raining all the time. where we get sunny spells it will feel very warm indeed. through next weekend and the beyond, some heavy, perhaps thundery, the wettest weather likely to be in the south. there will be some sunshine as well and a rather warm and humid feel. plenty of changes to come through the week ahead. that's all from me. bye for now.
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mornings papers in a moment first the headlines. thousands of protestors have joined anti—racism demonstrations in cities in the uk. in bristol protestors pulled down a statue of a 17th century slavetrader. the statue was then rolled through the streets before being dumped in the harbour. about speaks to the acts of disorder — public disorder, that of actually become a distraction from the cause in which people are actually protesting about and trying to empathize and sympathise with. in london police and protestors are currently facing off in whitehall. the prime minister denounces the violence saying the demonstrations have been subverted by thuggery. after a night of peaceful protests in washington — president donald trump orders the withdrawal of the national guard saying the city is under ‘perfect control‘ the number of people worldwide who have died from coronavirus has passed 400,000. more than a quarter of the deaths have been in the united states in brazil — hundreds of anti—government protesters demonstrate against their president over his handling of the virus — and in support of george floyd
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no new coronavirus deaths have been reported in scotland in the past 2a hours — for the first time since lockdown began. but the uk death toll has risen by 77. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are thejournalist and broadcaster, caroline frost and the parliamentary journalist, tony grew. tomorrow's front pages starting with the march for change — the mirror shows the statue of a 17th century slavetrader being pushed into bristol harbour during anti—racism protests earlier today. the same picture of the statue of edward colston is seen on the daily mail which echoes the words of the home secretary who condems the act
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as lawless and reckless. the times looks at mps‘ claims that the police could have done more to stop acts of criminal damage at black lives matter protests across the country. meanwhile, the i focusses on mayors in the north of england urging people to stay at home — despite government guidance — because of a rise in r rates there. the daily telegraph writes the the government's quarantine schem ' according to leaked documents seen by the paper. and the express looks at steps being made by the prime minister from tomorrow to save 3.5 million jobs by reopening sectors of the economy such as hospitality. so let's begin... — public disorder, that of actually become a distraction from the cause in which caroline, tony, we're going to look at the mirror and the mail, two opposite ways of looking at the exact same photograph. the mirror first of all, the march change about the toppling of actually become a distraction from the cause in which people are actually protesting about
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and trying to empathize and sympathise with. caroline, tony, we're going to look at the mirror and the mail, to opposite ways of looking at the exact same photograph. the mirror first looking at the exact same photograph. the mirrorfirst of looking at the exact same photograph. the mirror first of all, the merger change about the toppling of that statue in bristol, and then the daily mail with almost exactly the daily mail with almost exactly the same picture, i think it's exactly the same picture of the same moment simply saying wallace and reckless. caroline did you know who this person was before today? 0k, we're going to have a chat with tony while we sort of some audio, tony, i'm so sorry, taking the same question to you, did you know who edward colston was before today started ? edward colston was before today started? no, to be honest with you, i think this is a bit of a distraction from the very serious issues that these people are protesting about. it's all very well for pretty patel to go to the daily mailand for pretty patel to go to the daily mail and get for pretty patel to go to the daily mailand geta for pretty patel to go to the daily mail and get a quick hit auto she is on crime but i want to remind her that since 2010, police budget seven england have been cut by 19%, and what's that means is that the police have less resources to do things like community policing which isn't just something, but one of the ways you can defuse tensions in communities, and it's better to deal with intelligence led policing, so the whole thing for me as a massive distraction from the issue being brought forward. i've no idea why
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there is a statue. it's 2020, i have no idea why there is a statue of a slave trader in bristol in the first place. as i say, i think it's an u nfortu nate place. as i say, i think it's an unfortunate distraction. i'm a journalist, i completely understand, it's a great image, a great picture, but as i say, this lets pretty patel off the hook, she does this thing that ministers have started to do recently which is described as a concerned bystander, she's not a concerned bystander, she's not a concerned bystander, she's not a concerned bystander, she's responsible for police policy in this country, and she responsible and her party is responsible for the cuts that the police have suffered for the first nine years of his conservative government. so as i said, it's a distraction. you say it's a distraction, but looking at it, it is something that people are talking about, not just it, it is something that people are talking about, notjust on twitter and online but ordinary conversations, is this the start of a reckoning with some of the statues we see around the country, or adjust a one—off? we see around the country, or adjust a one-off? are you asked me if i statue should be worried if they're going to be pulled down next? no. i
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think it's important that people who don't notice know that this has been a running issue in bristol notjust over the past ten years, someone on twitter saying that their pants were telling them they were arguing about it in the student union in the 19705. i it in the student union in the 1970s. ijust it in the student union in the 1970s. i just feel that the previous injustices of slavery whilst obviously relevant to today are less important and less relevant to the fa ct important and less relevant to the fact that there are young people who are being stopped by the police 30 times a year. that's unacceptable. i would be angry if that was happening to me. we are going to rename this press view the papers with tony, because we have not yet got caroline back. so tony, unfortunately, those moments you deposit gather your thoughts, they have all gone, and we are going to bear on you and me for are going to bear on you and me for a while. are you 0k are going to bear on you and me for a while. are you ok with that? yeah. let's crack on. let's see if we can get caroline back. it does have that picture again of the statue in bristol but it also has another story that we are going to look at, stay at home warning for northern cities because the rate that we have
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all come to know has tipped up a bit in the north, and authorities there are suggesting they're worried about that, tony. there two things on to say about that, the government has been remarkably optimistic about what's going to happen next in terms of whether or not we are going to see a resurgence of the virus. the government at the beginning said it would be entirely led by the science. i think keen observers would've noticed that the last downing street press conference, there wasn't any chief medical 0fficer there wasn't any chief medical officer and no chief scientific adviser, so i think the government, i pray that the government is right and that the lockdown can continue to be loosened in the way that it is, but one of the things the government has also talked about is regional lockdown, but they haven't explained that to anyone, the other thing i would say, think it's really interesting that its local government lives in manchester and liverpool i believe who have come out and told people you know, basically two trains continue to that's one of the things the government has done. the truck
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contest process to a private company and have a made use of the fact that every local authority in the country has public health experts who know the area. i don't think the government is using local government in an effective way and secondly, i think if i was the mayor of manchester the liverpool mature mayor, i would manchester the liverpool mature mayor, iwould be manchester the liverpool mature mayor, i would be concerned by the fa ct mayor, i would be concerned by the fact that not only is the r rate and our community taking up but also the government has talked vaguely about lockdown plans but doesn't actually have a proper plan in place that they can understand. tony, your costar is back. caroline, you've missed all the conversation from a macro to ask you what you think of tony just macro to ask you what you think of tonyjust said, macro to ask you what you think of tony just said, because macro to ask you what you think of tonyjust said, because he probably didn't hear word. i will rewind a little bit and let you have a go at the first two papers. the mirror and the first two papers. the mirror and the mail both with the same photograph you did suggest it was a
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distraction this story, caroline, how do you see it? interesting. obviously, timing is everything. i think we have seen on social media all day the political leaders sort of taking their positions so labour members have come out in support of this protest while we have seen a lot of law and order calls from the government. i mean, it would be very interesting to my don't know if necessary, this process and the one we saw yesterday in london would've taken we saw yesterday in london would've ta ken place perhaps we saw yesterday in london would've taken place perhaps two weeks ago, i think what we have seen is that after the time and it cummings debacle, i think everybodyjust thought all bets are off and i think for a lot of people, they have simultaneously found a cause that is more important to them than what they perceive the risk to be to them health—wise. so we are seeing does make very important stories which you don't normally see just really coincide. i mean, some people call it distraction, some people are saying that this is a lifetime battle that has been going on a lot longer and a lot more widespread than the coronavirus. and just picking up on that question can i try to rescue rated the beginning,
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do you know who edward colston was before the day began? no idea. i have bristol he and friends whose schools are named after him, they talk widely about how he has financially benefited the city, but clearly, as well as doing a lot of good things, he has become a figurehead today for a whole lot of pain as well. no idea who he was. we will now jump ahead pain as well. no idea who he was. we will nowjump ahead to the yorkshire post to its main story, demands g rover powers post to its main story, demands grover powers and regions to fight virus. tony, this picks up a little bit on what you were saying about manchester and liverpool. we described of course a parliamentary journalist, my wonderful can call you perhaps a constitutional journalist for the moment. would it help if britain was more like a federal state be in germany or so on in which these regions had a lots of powers embedded in the years and yea rs of powers embedded in the years and years of that regions were able to ta ke years of that regions were able to take local decisions such as local lockdowns more easily? so what you're talking about a regions within england. yes, absolutely, to be absolutely clear, regions within
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england, my apologies. that's obsolete fine, just wanted to clarify, because the thing about uk is that it's an uneven state. the other thing about regionalization within england is that people don't like it, john prescott tried this immediately after the 1997 landslide, and they had a referendum i think it was in the northeast of england and it was overwhelmingly rejected, sowing this people themselves don't tend to see themselves don't tend to see themselves in these regional groups committee think that's one of the main issues, whereas in somewhere like spain, it's a much stronger regional identity and regional powers, and that structure has been in place for a long time, but as i said, it's been tried and rejected by people. but nevertheless, we will move to caroline, the yorkshire process demands grover powers and regions to fight virus, would that bea regions to fight virus, would that be a good idea for manchester and the ripple to have powers to make local decisions, given that the r rate is at different numbers for different parts of england, let alone wales, northern ireland and scotland. i think it may have made sense scientifically from day one,
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and what we have been lacking here and what we have been lacking here andl and what we have been lacking here and i know tony and i have spoken about this previously is the transparency of the government. if they have got all of those additional regional data on—site from i think what's happened in the la st from i think what's happened in the last three weeks because of all the scandals over the ppe, the ventilators, the equipment, the dominant coming saga, all of these things have added that to a sense that we feel as the public and mice certain they feel very much on my own, andl certain they feel very much on my own, and i think that's what's happening as we are hearing that that r rate is now changing, london appears to be through the worst of it, but we don't want to be... nobody else in the country wants to be the victim of that sort of london centric eyes to the future, and i think that's what we're seeing, we are seeing some breaks being applied because clearly regions are suffering in different numbers. let's look at the whole country via the daily express. the headline, boris battle plan to save 3 million jobs. tony, iwas boris battle plan to save 3 million jobs. tony, i was struck by a sentence buried away in the third paragraph, building new hospitals is also at the forefront of this recovery plan, that's a story i did
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yesterday in a different paper, but it's now come back in a different paper on the front page. welcome to be fair, that's a story of government has been pumping out for about six months now that they're going to build a0 new hospitals dimensions of their knock wood to build a0 new but this is part of a wider real worry and concern in government about the fact is that the treasury is pumping huge amounts of money into coronavirus support schemes, they are basically having to put together packages to support pretty much every sector of the economy, and the real concern now is how we are going to pay that back was? forrest johnson how we are going to pay that back was? forrestjohnson is insisting that that won't be through austerity, that therefore leads us with very limited levers, one of which is stimulus of economy and the other one is tax rises, but i know i'm skipping ahead slightly, but there is another story about trying to encourage people to buy electric cars, it's all part of a piece the government is deeply worried about how they are going to pay for it. also you know, the government wants to try and deliver on some of the promises that they made you the people and constituencies in the northern england that they want to
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for lieberman party, which is by the government now has such a co mforta ble government now has such a comfortable majority. caroline, we are going to move to the financial times, the ad hoc real and this programme is that anyone whose line goes down has to dial back up and then become an instant maritime experts, an expert on shipping across the world. i'm sure you know that very well. shipping industry ones of trade logjam as crews remained stranded. it hits a00,000 sailors who might be at sea or on land. just insert my maritime knowledge, yes, this taps into, obviously, striking headline, the idea 400,000 people being stranded at sea, if something had said that he or go, i think we would alljust be talking in the realms of sort of cuzco novels, however, they have any people are involved in this one industry, but if we just use that as a metaphor for the entire international industry, you start to realise what's at stake. i heard tony blair talking earlier today about taking an international approach if we are to come out of
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these waters to painfully extend his metaphor, we have got the biggest brains in the world, people like talking about how this is an opportunity to look ahead and dig ourselves a bigger world. perhaps this does need a massive reset, certainly international cooperation because those sailors aren't going anywhere until the borders are sorted out and everybody does sort of starts working together. we are not seeing any evidence of that in any trade at the moment. talking of borders, that gets us to our next paper, the daily telegraph, the headline, quarantine will not work, home office concedes will stop tony, with your expertise in whitehall and westminster, what do you make of this story? welcome it'sjust another example of government by first, government by press release. the government conceived a scheme, they hadn't thought it through, there are no real powers or mechanisms by which they can impose this quarantine, also, the industry themselves by which the ephesian industry in the tourism industry are also screaming at the government and threatening to sue them over this
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because they realise that if this country has got any chance of trying to get the hospitality sector back up to get the hospitality sector back up and running that this quarantine idea is going to be disastrous and also not lease for people were being told by the government that they might be able to go on holiday in july or august, but are then going to object self—isolate for 1a days. it's shambolic, for that quite frankly. caroline will read pair government stricken mccord into a lea ked government stricken mccord into a leaked home office stuck missing by the daily telegraph, there is no method for officials to ensure details are genuine, fines will only beissued details are genuine, fines will only be issued if entries are manifestly false, such as claiming you are called mickey mouse and reside at buckingham palace. as tony said, this is shambolic, why this wasn't implemented at a time when our numbers —— r rate was relatively low end of the countries are high, have no idea. now we are on the higher scale, and other countries are favourably comparative. suddenly, where the people trying to check that. i think this week the environment secretary said it does make sense, but could you possibly delay it until september just to give you possibly delay it until septemberjust to give people a summer septemberjust to give people a
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summer holiday? we're just going to sort of plan the viruses at its least lethal come across mingus. i mean, theyjust least lethal come across mingus. i mean, they just seem least lethal come across mingus. i mean, theyjust seem to be making it up mean, theyjust seem to be making it up as they go along, but certainly for gives me a holiday, i'm willing to become any mouse for a few crucial weeks. i thank you to become any mouse for a few crucialweeks. i thank you mentioned that electric car story, where we we re that electric car story, where we were on with the telegraph, they planned to jump start the economy was £6,000 incentive for switch to electric cars, given that new car sales at the moment are down on most 90%. yes, so this is 90 of that they took from gordon brown for much they are probably not good to tell you, which was this idea that you pay people... i don't see the name there. it's the fact that you pay people to thousand pounds or up to £6,000 to incentivize them to buy a new vehicle, and in this case it is an electric car. i think it's a reasonably good idea. my concern is that it's not going to stimulate the economy in a meaningful way, because my sense is that once we come out of
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lockdown, the government is kind of hoping that everyone from a soon as we come out of locked him from eve ryo ne we come out of locked him from everyone is going to spend, spend, spend, but my concern is when we get out of luck on people are going to be significantly more concerned about theirjobs, be significantly more concerned about their jobs, they are be significantly more concerned about theirjobs, they are going to be concerned about paying back credit cards and mortgages that the payments have been paused on. so i think in the medium—term, it's going to have a massive impact. tony would you be willing to swap if you are petrol or diesel car. i don't drive, soi petrol or diesel car. i don't drive, so i wouldn't. i understand that there are people who have cars, and quite a few million of them. i think it's more of a medium—term than a short—term plan. it's more of a medium—term than a short-term plan. caroline, are you tempted? if i got short-term plan. caroline, are you tempted? ifi got a big short-term plan. caroline, are you tempted? if i got a big check from the government to pay for it, certainly, but at the moment from as tony said, like everybody else, i don't think in my hierarchy of needs, a brand—new climate favouring vehicle is at the top of my list, andl vehicle is at the top of my list, and i don't think i know many people who feel like that. it's another borisjohnson who feel like that. it's another boris johnson navigate through the
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desperate ski poles of trying to get the country feeling positive about something, save the world from its climate problems and also let's get the economy back on its feet. i mean, he's going to have to choose. caroline, because he left us for a while, you will get the final one on our final while, you will get the final one on ourfinal paper, while, you will get the final one on our final paper, the yorkshire while, you will get the final one on ourfinal paper, the yorkshire post, which looks at the departure of archbishop of york. the yorkshire post says he was a churchman who worked for more humane role, archbishop for the ages, held on the last day. goodness me. it also can we say apart from what a wonderful tribute to be signed off on. it's out of course during this time of lockdown when somebody of sub significant waves goodbye, it's currently behind closed doors as are so currently behind closed doors as are so many other important events. i'm glad that he's made it to the front page of the newspapers and enough people are around to pay tribute. and i'm glad you made that from frost, thank you both so much. soon
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a little bit. that's it for the papers this hour. caroline and tony will be back at 11:30 for another look at the papers. goodbye for now. hello, i'm jean do hello, i'mjean do go hello, i'm jean do go with your latest sport. eight no brain claimed the 1000 guineas for the fourth time in five years as love one the second british classic of the year at newmarket. the ford one—shot written by him charged through the centre well clear of 12—1 chance, unbeaten 11-4 well clear of 12—1 chance, unbeaten 11—a favourite, quadrilateral, daughter of the iconic frankel, finished in third. it's been great. everyone is been very focused and everybody has put a lot of work into it. obviously, she's a beautiful filly bred by galileo. i'm delighted, really. listen, she's a very special filly.
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there were three matches and boone justly got, and the first of those relegation threatened beaten at home by wolfsburg. before kick—off, players took a knee and centre circle and the tribute to the black lives matter protests. the match was officiated by the first female referee in the bundesliga. the police chief inspector made her dip you in 2017. the match itself finished 1—0 two will spread thanks to the 82nd minute header. 0n finished 1—0 two will spread thanks to the 82nd minute header. on loan everton defender scored as they drew one all with union berlin after wolfsburg dealt that blow to berger brand men's battle for bundesliga survival. it was the same result between 0xford survival. it was the same result between oxford and fc,: after philip max scored a late equaliser for the home team. now, many sport stars have been participating in the black lives matter protests, including the former manchester united defender, rio ferdinand and his wife whojoin
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thousands of people demonstrating following the death of george boyd in america. ferdinand's the children also participated with the defender explaining to his a.3 million followers, taking my family to parliament squared today to be a pa rt parliament squared today to be a part of the protest was very emotional. the imports of supporting such causes emotional. the imports of supporting such causes cannot emotional. the imports of supporting such causes cannot be underestimated. educating the next generation is an absolute must. well, in america where the protests began, former philadelphia eagles defensive back, malcolm jenkins, warned that the global protests over racial injustice and police brutality needed to result in real change. jenkins returned to the city where he played for six years in order to speak. in 2018, he peacefully protested at his locker open two holding a sign that said you aren't listening after the team we re you aren't listening after the team were disinvited to a white house reception with donald trump following their super bowl championship. jenkins was speaking of philadelphia's african—american museum. i can feel our country's
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eyes being opened. even if we have two stick around for some of it. i hope that my future grandkids won't have to deal with the same fight that my great—grandmothers did. i'm hopeful because of all of you as we move forward from these moments, we must not make the grave mistake of allowing the world to fall back to sleep. manchester city will begin their appeal against european football band at the court of arbitration for sport on monday. ua for have banned the club from european competition for the next two seasons with failure to comply with financial integrity rules at the heart of the governing body's decision. a hearing in switzerland is scheduled to last for three days, but the outcome could possibly take weeks or even months to be announced. ufc star conor mcgregor has said he is retiring from fighting again. the irish mixed
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martial artist has retired before and then return to fight. this time he posted a picture of himself with his mother with a message for her which read "pick the home of your dreams " which read "pick the home of your dreams." congratulations to him, but that's all the sport for now. on the bbc sports website. for now, bye— bye. hello there. the first week of summer hello there. the first week of summer has certainly brought a big change in the weather pattern. 0ver the weekend, cool and northerly winds, some rain and a good deal of cloud around as well. interestingly, at loftus in cleveland, there has been more rain in the last week then we have had during the whole of spring. the start of the new week though looks a lot drier. the winds wa nt to though looks a lot drier. the winds want to be as strong either. that's because we've got this area of high—pressure, or at least the nose a bit, heading towards the uk. it may not last long, but for a while, it will keep those weather fronts at bay from the northwest of the uk. now, many places will have a dry day
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on monday, the sunshine coming and going, there will still be a few light showers blown onto some of those north sea coasts, and during the afternoon, watch over some heavy slow—moving showers and the southwest of england, but on the whole, a lot of dry weather around. temperature is not very different from what we had on sunday, but we will find that the winds are a good deal later today. and those light winds continue into the evening. it shouldn't be too long before we see the back of those showers from the southwest, and overnight and into tuesday morning from it will be dry pretty much everywhere. a fair bit of cloud around, perhaps not quite as chilly across scotland and the northeast of england as it will be first thing on monday morning. moving into tuesday, and there is still quite a lot of cloud in the picture. whilst most places will be dry, there is the odd shower developing through the day, head of the main change, which is this band of rain here arriving into western scotla nd of rain here arriving into western scotland and northern ireland. probably very late on in the day on tuesday if not into the evening. temperature still along the cool
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side though for many, 15—17d. and more significant changes arrive from midweek onwards. we have got that weather from driving simmering southwards, pressure is dropping, we end up with an area of low pressure across the uk on wednesday. so we have cloud, some are bricks of rain pushing towards the southeast, and whilst it may brighten up a bit further north, look at all of the showers developing. those actually could be heavy and thundering. because there is more cloud and more rain around, temperatures will be a bit lower, 1a—16d. that area of low pressure is still going to be around during thursday and perhaps into friday. it's drifting further south as well, so the wetter weather as we head towards the later part of the week will likely be across england and wales. we will see the winds picking up but by the end of the week, it could be a warmer wind.
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. thousands of people across britain take part in more anti—racism protests. in bristol, a statue to a 17th century slave trader is torn down and rolled into the river it represents years of her and just a lot of emotion and hatred that has been built up inside of us that we have internal is. it is utterly disgraceful and speaks to the act of disorder, public disorder that have now become distracting from the cause in which people are actually protesting about. in london a huge crowd gathered at the us embassy, as anger over the killing of george floyd in minneapolis widens to a call for change here.
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