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this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. disturbances break out overnight in the us city of atlanta after a black man is shot dead by police officers. officers had tried to arrest rayshard brooks after he failed a breathalyser test. his family's lawyer spoke of his frustration. i don't even know whatjustice is any more, and i have been doing this for 15 years. borisjohnson orders a review of the two metre social distancing rule in england, following calls to scrap it. more than a hundred people are arrested after a day of violent clashes in central london, involving far—right activists.
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remembering the 72 people who died in the grenfell tower fire three years ago. a virtal church service has just got under way in west london to the mark the anniversary. coming up at 11:30, as restrictions are eased across the world, we take a look at what might change as people adjust to a new reality in coronavirus: what next? hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe.
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our top story, there has been another night of unrest in the united states following the killing of another black man, rayshard brooks, by police in the city of atlanta. protesters blocked a major road and set fire to a drive—through restaurant where the killing of rayshard brooks took place on friday. one of the two white policemen involved has been sacked, and atla nta's police chief has resigned. atlanta is one of many us cities to have seen protests since the killing last month of george floyd by police in minneapolis. footage of the incident shows mr brooks fleeing on foot from police after a scuffle with officers in the restaurant car park. local investigators claim that mr brooks had failed an alcohol test and seized one of the officer's tasers as he fled. moments later, he was fatally shot. in the aftermath, police fired tear gas to disperse protesters but demonstrations continued late into the night. and this footage has just come in to us from the atlanta police department, showing the conversation
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between officers and rayshard brooks before he was shot. the reason why we are here is because somebody called 911 because you were asleep behind the wheel while you were in the drive—through, right? recall that? i don't. you don't recall minutes ago when you were passed out behind the wheel? no. i wasn't driving. like i said, my girlfriend was probably sleeping. you are the only person who has been seen in this vehicle. this report is from rich preston, and a warning, this story contains some distressing pictures. crowds got angrier through the night here in atlanta after news of the death of another black man at the hands of american police officers. that anger spilled onto the streets.
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the fast—food restaurant next to the scene of the killing was set alight. major highways were blocked. police say mr brooks failed a sobriety test and resisted arrest. they say he was able to get one of the officers‘ tasers, and tried to use it against him. they responded with live ammunition. the killing comes amid a global wave of black lives matter protests. the officer involved has been fired. while there may be debate as to whether this was an appropriate use of deadly force, i firmly believe that there is a clear distinction between what you can do and what you should do. i do not believe that this was a justified use of deadly force. the city's police chief has resigned, but it's unlikely that will placate these people, who say racism is built into american society. the officers need to be arrested, and it's not ok, it's not ok that every day i have to wake up
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and learn a new name, new hashtag, a new life that was lost because of the injustice that america has for a system that was built in the 1600s. i could say we wantjustice, but i don't even care any more, i don't know even what that is, and i've been doing this for 15 years. i don't know what justice is any more. is it getting them arrested, is it getting somebody fired, is it a chief stepping down? i know that this isn't justice, what's happening in society right now. what young black people see is the continued drumbeat of injustice instead of a drumbeat towards justice. of course they feel disenfranchised. two or three of the emotions that come from sustained generational oppression are anger, apathy and despondency. around a third of people in georgia are african—american. despite the black lives matter
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movement, they see american society is built against them and they fear for their future. more than a hundred people were arrested during yesterday's violent demonstrations in central london involving far—right groups. they were detained for offences including violent disorder, breach of the peace and possessing weapons. six police officers were injured. the prime minister described the attacks on police as racist thuggery. sean dilley has this report. thousands of people join protests, despite calls from police to stay at home. many were peaceful, but violent clashes soon broke out. police officers were attacked throughout the day as they attempted to keep distance between anti—racism and far—right groups. a barrage of missiles were launched at them. in whitehall, the crowd pushed their way through and tried to attack photographers. the prime minister, borisjohnson,
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condemned the minority the individuals that are basically putting the safety of our police officers and the safety of the public at risk will expect to face the full force of the law. people from a variety of backgrounds turned out as self—proclaimed protectors of statues after winston churchill's monument was damaged last week. this protester told us he felt british history under attack. come on. i mean, he had some racist views, but at the end of the day, he led us through our darkest hour. i mean, i'm from south london, i've grown up with black people. we are all working class, live side by side. nobody here has an issue with blm.
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outside waterloo station, police stepped in to quell scuffles. across the day, six officers were injured, protesters too. this man carried to safety by another protester. the violence in part of the capital contrast with other areas where protests were largely peaceful. sean dilley, bbc news. a 28—year—old man has been arrested on suspicion of outraging public decency by urinating next to a memorial to a policeman during violent protests in central london yesterday. the man is in custody in essex after going to a police station. pc keith palmer was stabbed to death in 2017 during the westminster bridge terrorist attack. british prime minister borisjohnson has ordered a review of the two—metre social—distancing rule in england, business leaders, and some of mrjohnson‘s own mps, have warned large parts of the hospitality industry will not survive if the rules aren't relaxed.
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the review will aim to be completed by the 11th ofjuly, the earliest date when pubs a nd restau ra nts might open in england. the recommended distance you should leave between you and other people varies from country to country. all four nations of the uk observe the two metre rule, as do spain and canada. it drops to one and a half metres if you are in australia, italy and germany and then falls to a metre if you are in china, france or singapore. the official guidance from the world health organization says leave at least a metre between yourself and others to prevent the spread of coronavirus. but the uk government's scientific advisers say that being one metre apart carries up to ten times the risk of being two metres apart. with me is our political correspondent, jessica parker. what else have the government been
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saying on this? they are under real pressure, not least from their own mps, to drop this role. yes, there seems to have been a shift from what borisjohnson was talking about earlier in the week, putting the rule under constant, active review, to what now seems to be a formal review. what is the difference, you might ask? as you mentioned before, there is a date by which they are aiming to have a result, the 11th of july, when you could see hospitality beginning to open up in england, and they are going to talk to economists as well as scientists, because, as you were alluding to, the economy is a great concern in this particular issue. it is something that rishi sunak, the chancellor, has been speaking about on the andrew marr programme. that review will be a comprehensive review, conducted soon, starting now. we have done the preliminary work,
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done with scientists and economists. i talk to business all the time, it has an enormous impact on their ability to operate profitably and maintain employment. it impacts public transport, schools and many other things. as much as everyone and i would like to see it reduced from an economic perspective, we can only do that if it is safe and responsible to do so. the chancellor outlining what a difficult balancing act it is, what are labour saying? labour was in the science needs to be followed, but they are, more broadly on coronavirus, accusing the government of dithering and delaying when it comes to making up their mind on crucial decisions. david lammy has also been on andrew marr programme this morning. i don't think it is binary, what does the signs say? follow the
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signs. secondly, be frank and honest with the public in balancing risk, andl with the public in balancing risk, and i think the government has been slow, slow on testing, slow on lockdown, slow on ppe, and i suspect they will be slow on this. the warning to the government is that potentially millions ofjobs could be lost in the hospitality industry. rishi sunak was talking about the economic prospects for the country going ahead, and he says there will be hardship, that is very clear, and hospitality in particular, but also retail. the reason they want to see the two metre rule relax days, put simply, if you have a two metre rule in place, you can get fewer people into your venue, your pub garden, and if you have one metre, you can get more in, make more money, after being in lockdown for weeks and weeks. as you say, manyjobs seem to be at stake by the hospitality sector, i think that is why they have set this forth of the july
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date, not long for the prime minister to weigh up the risk. can i barker, thank you very much. -- jessica parker, thank you very much. today marks three years since the grenfell towerfire in london. the anniversary will be marked by a number of virtual events, including a online church service. to mark the anniversary, people in the uk are being urged to illuminate their homes with green lights to remember the 72 people who died. church bells will also sound across london. the grenfell united campaign group says the fight for safe homes and justice continues, as our correspondent rajini vaidya nathan reports. the faces of those who died in a tragedy which exposed some of the deep inequalities in our society. each story of loss is as painful today as it was three years ago. hesham rahman lived alone on the 23rd floor. his family say marking this anniversary during a pandemic is especially tough.
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we are still going the grieving process and the rest of the country right now is grieving because of covid, and people have lost family and friends ahead of their time and we are grieving with them, and covid brought a lot of bad emotions for us, especially for how things were after the fire because there were a lot of similarities, being glued to the tv, listening to the number of deaths rising every day. the fire began on the fourth floor after a fridge caught fire. a public inquiry blamed cheap combustible cladding on the building for its rapid spread. later, the prime minister will deliver a message at a virtual memorial service where he will pledge to ensure a tragedy like grenfell never happens again. but a government target to remove flammable cladding on high—rises by this month has yet to be met. about 2000 tower blocks in england alone are still potentially at risk.
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three years later, it's really frustrating that we're still talking about removing this cladding. it's just...the government keep making these announcements, but it materialising and actually happening is a completely different story. in one of london's wealthiest areas, some of its poorest weren't protected. grenfell tower has been described as a monument to inequality. what happened here three years ago is as relevant today as it was then. rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news. let's speak to rebecca fairclough, from the committee of manchester cladiators, a campaign group that represents residents in flats with flammable cladding and other fire safety issues. she's in manchester. microbe will be in with us. three yea rs microbe will be in with us. three years on, what to make many of these tower blocks similar to grenfell safer? firstly, can i just
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tower blocks similar to grenfell safer? firstly, can ijust say that today, especially today, we send our thoughts and prayers to the families and friends of those who lost their lives three years ago and those who are still fighting forjustice and affected by it. as you said in the report, three years on, there are thousands of buildings covered in this flammable cladding, and it hasn't been removed. the government have not met the target that they said, and even the recent fund that they announced in march, that still doesn't go far enough. we have a number of issues with that fund. so what else do you want to see done specifically? just talk us through what you would like to see done and how quickly. well, for example, the fund of £1 million sounds like a lot of money, but it is not enough. —— £1 billion. so that simply will not be enough money. also, the funds do not cover all of the issues. obviously, the government initially
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announced a fund for one type of cladding, but we are glad they recognise there are other different types of dangerous cladding, and other fire safety issues which are not eligible for this recent fund. the fund needs to be extended so that it covers all buildings that are affected. how many people... just give us a rough estimate, how many people in this country are living with cladding that is potentially dangerous? well, i think there was a figure this week that said there are over 50,000 residents living in buildingsjust with said there are over 50,000 residents living in buildings just with acm cladding, so if you add in the other cladding, so if you add in the other cladding and other fire safety issues, you are talking hundreds of thousands of people. at the moment, there are still fire safety investigations going on across the country, so the final figure isn't yet known. but every night people have to go to bed in homes failing that, you know, they are not safe.
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ifa that, you know, they are not safe. if a fire breaks out, will they wake 7 if a fire breaks out, will they wake up? some buildings are waiting watches, you know, someone walking around the building who will knock on your door at night if there is a fire, to wake you up. i mean, that is not a long—term resolution, so the government need to provide enough money for all buildings to be fixed as quickly as possible, because if it carries on at the rate it is now, it is going to take decades for all these buildings to be fixed. so you talked about the government fund, i think 1.6 billion, to take away unsafe cladding, are you saying they need to spend a lot more money than that? yes, it is definitely going to cost a lot more than that. you know, just looking at the number of buildings and how much the remediation work is going to cost, it will cost, you know, several billion, some have talked about up to £20 billion to remediate all these issues. so, you know, we say that the government needs to fix the problem is now as
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quickly as possible so that people can live in safe homes, and if there are issues that they can take up with freeholders, builders, you know, whoever is at fault for building these buildings so dangerously, then they can do that, but the urgency should be to make homes safe. good to talk to you, rebecca pike love from the committee of manchester cladiators, a campaign group representing people who live in buildings with flammable cladding. —— rebecca fairclough. a uk government statement described the fire as a devastating tragedy and said they're determined to ensure it can never happen again.
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let's return to the live pictures we mentioned at the top of the programme, a virtual online church service to mark three years since the grenfell tower disaster. and this is at the all saints church in notting hill, the grenfell anniversary service, one of many services and events taking place today to mark the third anniversary of the disaster at grenfell tower. the headlines on bbc news: disturbances break out overnight in the us city of atlanta after a black man is shot dead by police officers. borisjohnson orders a review of the two metre social distancing rule in england, following calls to scrap it. more than a hundred people
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are arrested after a day of clashes in central london, involving far—right activists. from tomorrow, all social distancing restrictions are to be lifted on the isle of man, the first place in the british isles to do so. it's after a run of more than 20 days with no active cases. the islands chief minister, howard quayle, joins me now. thank you very much for being with us, what changes from tomorrow? world tomorrow ben, people will be able to go to the shops, we won't have to go to kew, we will start to get schoolchildren back into schools, we had to shut down all our schools, we had to shut down all our schools, we had to shut down all our schools, we kept some open for key workers. if you have got to meet as social distancing, you will only be
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able to get 25% of your young people buy, one metre gives you 50%, but we are ina buy, one metre gives you 50%, but we are in a good position to date, day 25 of no cases, we have got no—one in hospital suffering from covid, and no active cases, so we have the data to take that action and get out of people's lives, let people get on with their lives and help the economy start up again. that is remarkable, no cases for that length of time, what are the main reason is, do you have been so successful in controlling the virus there? we went in hard fast, so in march we started testing straightaway, we never stopped testing. at one stage, we we re never stopped testing. at one stage, we were in the top ten countries in the world per capita number of tests carried out. we contact christ everyone, so we asked people to quarantine if they had been in close
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contact with people. thus we contact christ everyone. the great manx public followed the guidelines, the advice, and i are working together asa team. advice, and i are working together as a team. closing our borders, allowing people to come back on repatriation et cetera, but that meant we protected ourselves, we hope, from a second way. we have never been complacent, but it has to come it and the public buying into that and regular updates has got us into this position. so you have been making your own decisions on this all the way through. we listen to what is going on in the uk, we listen to what is happening in ireland, and what is happening in the rest of the world. we have our own public health, we have our own health system, which is reciprocal with the united kingdom, but yeah, we look at what is best practice,
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and we came up with the manx solution for a manx situation. the lights to sink other countries could learn from the manx solution? -- do you think other countries could learn from the manx solution? maybe it was a little bit easier for us, we are a smalljurisdiction, easier for us to bring in controls, a very close—knit community, and with regular briefings, the people of the isle of man really came through, follow the rules, and as a result, we are in this fantastic position, although we are not complacent, we will be monitoring, and we test eve ryo ne will be monitoring, and we test everyone that comes into hospital, and we will continue to do that, and we are doing the antigen testing to see how many have had it, but we have only had 336 cases, which is really low. we knew we were going through the peak. will any restrictions continue, or is that it, everything lifted ?
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restrictions continue, or is that it, everything lifted? well, at the borders, we are asking people to quarantine at home for 1h days before they can get out and about. we are coming up with guidelines for nightclubs, that is something we haven't opened yet, we are opening pubs on monday, we will probably alter the rules for food to allow them to open totally in the next few days, but the nightclub situation is where we need to follow some guidelines, and we should have that donein guidelines, and we should have that done in the next few days. that is probably one of the few areas where we still have restrictions. very interesting to hear your perspective. many thanks for your time. the italian city of venice sprang back to life this weekend, but local protesters were hoping against a return to the old ways. activists formed a human chain to demonstrate against tourism which commidifies the city, with landlords turning rental properties into holiday lets,
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pricing out those who live there. around 30 million people visit venice each year, a city with a native population of little more than 50,000. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willetts. hello there. it's another day of warm, sunny spells for most of us. and some showers, even the odd torrential downpour. we've had plenty of sunshine to start the morning but the clouds being bubbling up. and we've already had some rather persistent clouds near the north sea coast, this is north yorkshire. that's because we've still got this easterly drift coming in off the cool north sea with that moist air, that humid air sitting across it. but for many of us, as i said, a lot of dry, settled weather, warm weather as well. but with some big showers brewing up. so the low clouds sitting near the north sea coast could in places be quite stubborn, not clear away.
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elsewhere, after lots of sunshine first thing, the shower cloud bubbles up, and then we've got the showers coming through, probably fewer than yesterday for the southeast and not as lengthy for the southwest, but there will be some heavy ones, we think wales, the midlands and east anglia, but wouldn't like to rule out the odd one elsewhere. one or two isolated ones for northern ireland, for scotland, as well as that cloud gets burnt back to the coast. but a difference in temperature, 11 on the east coast, probably 22, 23 in the northwest highlands. now, some of these showers will turn out to be slow moving with squally winds near them, hail, frequent lightning, but they will ease overnight. and by that stage, we're finding that low cloud coming back instead of the warm, humid night, perhaps some patchy rain as well, coming back into eastern parts of england. eastern parts of scotland, because we're just seeing that feed coming in off that easterly breeze that's still with us. that area of low pressure through monday, in fact through monday, tuesday and wednesday, which means a similar setup. but the detail of where the showers will be is quite difficult. so it does look as if we might see another pulse of rain coming back
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in at some point during the night ahead and into monday across northeast england and scotland. elsewhere, a scattering of heavy showers, heaviest look to be across the western side of the uk. again, we'll be plagued by low cloud for some coastal areas in the north and the east come tuesday. our low pressure may just reorientate itself a little bit more overhead. so we might see more widespread showers developing going into the afternoon with some heavy ones further east as well. but all the time in the lengthy sunny spells, it's going to be warm temperatures about where they should be for this time of year. into the low 20s. but the unsettled and showery weather, as i mentioned, continues for much of the day. as ever, here's plenty more on our website.
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by police officers. officers had tried to arrest rayshard brooks after he failed a breathalyser test — his family's lawyer spoke of his frustration. ican i can see we wantjustice, but i don't know what justice i can see we wantjustice, but i don't know whatjustice is any more. borisjohnson orders a review of the two metre social distancing rule in england, following calls to scrap it. more than 100 people are arrested after a day of violent clashes in central london yesterday, involving far—right activists. a virtual church service is being held to remember the 72 people who died in the grenfell tower fire three years ago. now on bbc news — coronavirus: what next? with coronavirus outbreaks at different stages around
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