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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. a ruling in the case of breonna taylor — but the charge does not directly relate to her killing. how will the city react? mourners gather to say their farewells to the notorious rbg. she had wanted to be an opera star but became, said the chiefjustice, a ‘rock star of the court.‘ and we'll be finding out why one of america's oldest brands is changing its name. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk
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or around the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. the attorney general of the us state of kentucky has said one of the three police officers involved in the fatal shooting of breonna taylor is to be indicted. the officer is facing charges because some of his bullets went into a neighbour's flat. no officer will be charged over ms taylor's killing. breonna taylor — a black medical worker — was shot and killed during a raid on her apartment in march. protestors expressed their anger following the announcement; crowds began marching through the streets. aleem maqbool reports from louisville. they are already starting to express their outrage at the news that police won't be charged with the manslaughter of breonna taylor. in march, the 26—year—old had been in her own home after midnight when plainclothes police officers
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burst in on a drug raid. her boyfriend, kenneth walker, a licensed gun owner, says he thought they were intruders and fired his weapon. they fired back at least 20 times, killing breonna. no drugs were found. 911, operator here. what is your emergency? i don't know what's happening. somebody kicked in the door and shot my girlfriend. breonna taylor! after months of protests, the city of louisville paid a $12 million settlement to breonna taylor's family, but they wanted the officers charged with manslaughter. a grand jury decided against that. according to kentucky law, the use of force by mattingly and cosgrove was justified to protect themselves. this justification bars us from pursuing criminal charges in miss breonna taylor's death.
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instead, one of the three officers involved was charged with a far lesser count of wanton endangerment. you've heard the announcement. what do you feel? angry, very angry, very upset. basically, everything that's going on right now, i'm pretty sure a lot of people are let down by hearing what they heard. ijust hope it doesn't rise into anger within ourselves, and we actually do hold peace. protesters here feel it's the decision not even to send these officers to trial for manslaughter that's made anger, perhaps violence, inevitable. for them, in spite of a long summer of protest, little in america has been resolved. let's talk to barbara sexton smith, she's a counciller in louisville, kentucky. what do you make of this, the charge
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of wa nto n what do you make of this, the charge of wanton endangerment. we're not talking about a manslaughter, the young woman is lost her life. thank young woman is lost her life. thank you for having made this evening and is representative of our city metro council, her family's loss and is representative of our city metro council, herfamily‘s loss and i returned the general —— our attorney general, the grand jury and you are right. only three charges, three cou nts right. only three charges, three counts of right. only three charges, three cou nts of wa nton right. only three charges, three counts of wanton endangerment. the community is expressing their disappointment and their... we are having slight problems with the line that we are missing out every other word, it is not fair to continue with this interview. but we will try to come back to you. because some of the points are crucial to hear, will hopefully come back to barbara smith who is a counsellor in louisville,
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kentucky at the moment. the situation is quite tense as well with people still out on the streets, still protesting and unhappy with that indictment. family members and former colleagues have been paying their respects to the late supreme courtjustice ruth bader ginsburg. after a brief ceremony at the court in washington, her casket went on display for the public. the passing ofjustice ginsburg was a watershed moment for the bench. she was only the second woman to ever serve on america's highest court and for 27 years she served as a voice for the voiceless. our north america editor jon sopel reports. there was something almost dystopian about the image as former clerks of ruth bader ginsburg lined the steps of the supreme court. six feet apart, black facemasks instead of black armbands, mourning in a time of covid. her death a source of genuine pain for millions of americans. a rabbi conducted the small service
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attended by family and her fellow supreme courtjustices. the tribute from the us chiefjustice, john roberts. ruth used to ask, "what is the difference between a bookkeeper in brooklyn a supreme court justice?" her answer, "one generation." it has been said that ruth wanted to be an opera virtuoso, but became a rock star instead. but she chose the law. members of the public will be able to pay their respects to the notorious rbg, her rock star nickname, over the coming days, but the world is not standing still. donald trump is moving at warp speed to fill her seat on the court, still draped in black, and it looks like he's got the votes in the senate to push this through, particularly after a strong republican critic fell into line. what i intend to do is to proceed with the consideration process, and if a nominee actually reaches the floor, then i will vote based
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upon the qualifications of that nominee. two women are being talked about as a successor — barbara lagoa, a cuban—american from florida, and amy coney barrett from indiana. but in social outlook, they couldn't be more different from the liberaljustice ruth bader ginsburg. and at trump rallies, there's a new chant for 2020. chanting: fill that seat! we will. "fill that seat, fill that seat," they call. and it looks like donald trump will, shifting the court in a markedly conservative direction. the liberal era on abortion, gay rights, immigration reform may well be coming to an end. let's talk to barbara sexton smith, she's a counciller in louisville, kentucky. let's get some of
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the day's other news the ruling in the case, a church is been given, but does not directly relate to this, let us go back to louisville, kentucky to try and get in touch with the counsellor and let's get your initial reaction, barbara. as everyone in the commonwealth of kentucky, one officer was going to be charged in the church was simply going to be three counts of wanton endangerment for the three bullets that went into the apartment next door to breonna taylor, were a man, woman and child were, that was incredibly frustrating and very disappointing to me asa frustrating and very disappointing to me as a metro councilwoman and for the thousands and thousands of people that have been protesting in oui’ people that have been protesting in our streets for 194 days since the night breonna taylor was killed and her home by louisville police
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officers. what is your understanding by manslaughter, the attorney general said that they are following the law. yes, so the explanation that the attorney general gave her that the attorney general gave her that was that the ten bullets fired went into the apartment in the apartment next door, but none of his bullets fired and went into breonna taylor's body. the fbi and defendant investigation said the ballista group report shows the one bullet was the fatal shot and breonna taylor's body came from officer cosg rove taylor's body came from officer cosgrove and the attorney general went on to explain that officer cosg rove, went on to explain that officer cosgrove, who fired multiple rounds into the home when they saw a man and a woman in the hallway, they we re and a woman in the hallway, they were firing in self—defense. in the attorney general said that the kentucky revised statutes, the laws that govern the activities by law
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enforcement, they are allowed by law to fire in self—defense. because the explanation that was given. we are frustrated here in louisville, kentucky. this idea of qualified immunity and the no knock warrants, just talk us through that how that works and how that has impacted the situation. how it worked on march 13 is one set of facts to stop but, we passed the lockyer louisville, kentucky, the only metro council and the entire united states of america that has passed a ban on no knock wa rra nts that has passed a ban on no knock warrants and an ordinance that requires body determines to be activated and operated in footage to be stored on all search warrants. but what happened was the tragedy was on march 12, five search warrants, no knock search warrants we re warrants, no knock search warrants were applied for an affidavit was swarmed by an officer, joshua james,
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and he presented that to a judge that approved and signed five simultaneous no knock warrants. four of those no knock warrants were then conducted as we went into the night time and it became march 13. at ms. taylor was shot and killed in her home as a result of those no knock search warrants being conducted simultaneously and when we learned that, on the metro council, we were not aware of that. it was not brought to our attention until may ten and then it took us 22 days to write the law and passed the law unanimously for a complete ban on no knock warrants in our community. so, my plea to the nation here is that every city in every state in the united states of america will com pletely united states of america will completely ban no knock warrants. we should not have them. they are a result of the 19805 war on drugs in the united states and many of the
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aspects of the war on drugs need to be eliminated. thi5 aspects of the war on drugs need to be eliminated. this is a first step. we have many morejustice reform5 that we need to put in place. will be look at the streets, the live shot right now from louisville, kentucky, people are desperately unhappy with this decision and just going forward, since the death of george floyd a5 going forward, since the death of george floyd as well, we have this justice in policing that is trying to be passed by the federal house of representatives. what do you think i5 representatives. what do you think is going on here, this system that i5 is going on here, this system that is not up to scratch when it comes to these types of deaths. our system i5 to these types of deaths. our system is completely broken inter—5y5tem has not been written correctly from the beginning of time. for more than 400 yea r5 the beginning of time. for more than 400 years the united states, we have implemented institutional oppression and created long—term raci5m implemented institutional oppression and created long—term racism that oppre55e5 and created long—term racism that oppresses black people in our
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nation. we have to stop that. we need total justice nation. we have to stop that. we need totalju5tice reform and it mu5t need totalju5tice reform and it must stop with the local levels —— start and at the federal level. and there was a settlement and the breonna taylor's civil case just last week in the city of louisville did settle and has an out of court and paid her family did settle and has an out of court and paid herfamily a $12 million agreed—upon settlement that for the first time the history of our nation, where there has been a case 5uch nation, where there has been a case such as this of an officer killing a civilian and the settlement also include5 civilian and the settlement also includes many police reform5 civilian and the settlement also includes many police reforms that will be required. so, all eyes are on loui5ville, will be required. so, all eyes are on louisville, kentucky tonight. we need your thoughts and prayers, prayers for all the anger to maintain peaceful prote5t prayers for all the anger to maintain peaceful protest and let's work together because united we stand and divided we fall. we are watching and at the moment, doe5 look peaceful but it does look ten5e. thank you so much for your
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words, thank you. stay with us on bbc news, still to come. president trump's 5on eric is told he'll be interviewed under oath before the presidential election, over claims that the family bu5ine55 overstated its assets to obtain loan5. there will be no autumn budget this year because of the continuing economic uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic. the treasury said it needed to focus on "the here and now" — with employment as its top priority. the chancellor rishi sunak will announce measure5 tomorrow designed to protect job5 through the winter — amid mounting calls for the furlough scheme to be extended beyond october. our economics editor, faisal islam says cancelling you'll make the big picture is 5quaring that and supporting the economy and jobs more because of the
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extra re5trictions economy and jobs more because of the extra restrictions of coronavirus in the past weeks but also generally because of the economy and at the same time, a budget would've been in place we start to explain how taxes might have risen to begin to pay 5ome down might have risen to begin to pay some down payments on might have risen to begin to pay 5ome down payments on repaying that. so, the budget being cancelled means that tomorrow, we will get more spending on support and jobs, but that question about where is the payback on this, that can be delayed. this is bbc news, the latest headlines. a ruling in the case of breonna taylor — but the charge does not directly relate to her killing. how will the city react? mourners gather to say their farewells to the late supreme courtjustice ruth bader ginsburg. president donald trump's 5on eric has been ordered by a judge to make himself available for interview — under oath — in new york by october 5eventh.
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the trump organisation is under investigation in new york amid claims that the company overstated the value of assets to obtain loans and tax benefits — a claim the company denies. eric trump had tried to avoid being interviewed before the election saying that he was an integral part of his father's re—election campaign. our correspondent michelle fleury has the latest. president's 5on, eric trump is now going there to answer que5tion5 under oath. he had argued that he shouldn't have to give a deposition until after the presidential election in november, saying this could be used for political purposes. but the judge wasn't buying it and the manhattan judge said he found the argument and persuasive and is giving eric trump he found the argument unper5uasive and is giving eric trump until october 27 at the very latest to comply. this is the result of an investigation being carried out by the new york attorney generals
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office and they are looking taking you life with the president speaking, we expect them to talk about the economy and a vaccine. reaching the face one trial5, but due to our support under operation web 5peed, due to our support under operation web speed, and to some of the incredible 5cienti5ts involved, they reach phase three trials far ahead of schedule. we encourage americans to enrol in the vaccine trial. it is not only interesting, is a terrific thing for our country. we encourage everybody to enrol. a5 thing for our country. we encourage everybody to enrol. as many people a5 everybody to enrol. as many people as we can today. my administration announces that we are awarding $200 million in cares zacks funding towards all 50 states to prepare to di5tribute towards all 50 states to prepare to distribute the vaccine and to high ri5k re5ident5 distribute the vaccine and to high ri5k residents and we want to do that the instant it is approved. not the following day, but the following
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moment and we are going to be doing that in the distributing, getting it ready because we have some great vaccines going to be coming out through operation warp 5peed. we continue to accelerate life—saving therapies and we are seeing promising results that are monoclonal antibody treatments that are going to help the immune system fight the virus and we find it can reduce hospitalizations now by more than 70%. by cutting red tape and unleashing america's medical genius, we reduce the fatality of 85% since april, for individuals under 50, and 99.98% rate of survival from the coronavirus. that is really increasing substantially with time. a5 increasing substantially with time. as children go back to school, early re5ea rch as children go back to school, early research shows that only a small degree of spread, brown university
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went to 550 schools across 46 states and found that only .076% of 5tu d e nts and found that only .076% of students have confirmed cases of the viru5, students have confirmed cases of the virus, that is a tiny percentage and only .15% of teachers had confirmed cases. patient5 coming to the emergency room due to the virus is down to only 1.6% of all emergency room visits. the lowest since the pandemic began, 1.6% emergency room visits. the president there addressing the united states from the white house. of course, the country does pa55ing 200,000 deaths in the ruling average is heading in a different direction. over 40,000 new cases of coronavirus every day and so the situation they're in the
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united states, the presidentjust giving an update. one of the most popular brands of easy—cook rice in the united states — uncle ben's — is being renamed after being associated with racial 5terotyping. it will become ben's original and the seventy—year old brand image — of an elderly african—american black man wearing a bow tie — will be dropped from its packaging. the decision comes in the aftermath of mass prote5t5 about racial injustice and inequality in the us. joining me now is kevin d. thoma5, assistant professor of multicultural branding at marquette university in michigan. what you make of this decision? no, not surprised at all. i think they really wa nt not surprised at all. i think they really want to take their time to make sure the changes put into effect were going to be worthwhile and so they certainly have taken ca re of and so they certainly have taken care of the two key problematics of the branding, one being the naming,
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this long history of calling black people uncles or aunt instead of their people uncles or aunt instead of theierand mrs in people uncles or aunt instead of their mr and mrs in the last name and the symmetry of this random waiter from and the symmetry of this random waiterfrom chicago that and the symmetry of this random waiter from chicago that was pictured in the branding before that really had this look of servitude and they took care of those two things, but will be interesting to see if they're going to bring any imagery. what to expect because the companies that they listen, they learned in their moving forward, how doe5 learned in their moving forward, how does a company move forward from something like this? well, i would hope what they're going to do is really start to on that history. , one way to really build that trust of the community is to say that this i5 of the community is to say that this is what we did, we were a part of this history of racism, part of this history and the connected to white supremacy, appointing this idea of servitude with african—america n5 supremacy, appointing this idea of servitude with african—americans and moving forward with what were going
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to do in reimagining this brand as a way of uplifting the knowledge of the idea of blackne55 i5 way of uplifting the knowledge of the idea of blackne55 is having the sen5e the idea of blackne55 is having the sense of being able to overcome. a long history of knowledge of race in black communities, enslaved africans brought that to the americans. and we have the ability to lift up that knowledge and ingenuity and infused into the brand in a way that actually reimagines a sense of what it means to have a black mascot is your branding. i've got to say, when it comes this particular article on your website, where the most read and most popular, people are fascinated by this, so how do you think this brand will move this forward than? what do you hope to see was yellow i hope they stick to
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their announcement?” see was yellow i hope they stick to their announcement? i hope they change their branding and how they do business, turning up at the national urban league to give scholarships to aspiring african—american chefs. give some money back to mississippi with the race is made for educational aspects there for young children, young black children and children of colour that live in mississippi. in other going to change their marketing structure. other going to bring in more voices of colour to the boardroom? the going to reduce —— infuse more businesses of colour? and how's the bread actually acting and are they living up to those values that they're espousing. do you hope that other companies will pick up? that there will be any companies, that they should be doing
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the same thing? i think you're on the same thing? i think you're on the cusp of something here. any day now, we should hear about the new direction ofjemima, eskimo pie is the process of reimagining and a long—standing brand that is out there that is looking to rebrand themselves and there's certainly a trend here and it is notjust in the us, buta trend here and it is notjust in the us, but a global phenomenon and was starting to see brands, stereotypical racialized images in the brand mascots that have been chosen, and how that will impact them moving forward. if that changes, i'm sure we'll get you back on it thank you so much for your expertise. to check that out. lots more details on that. just before i go, time to tell you some of today's other top
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stories. there have been violent clashes in belarus with reports of dozens of people being detained. in the capital minsk, water cannon were used and protesters were struck with batons as riot police tried to stop demonstrations taking place. it came as the country's longtime president alexander lukashenko was sworn in for a sixth time on wednesday. president donald trump has announced a new series of sanctions on cuba. us citizens will be prohibited from staying at properties owned by the cuban government. the importing of cuban cigars has also been banned. since taking office, mr trump has tightened restrictions on cuba that were loosened by former president barack obama. injune 2019, the trump administration imposed heavy new restrictions on travel to cuba. the british government has scrapped plans for a budget announcement in the coming months because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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