california law gives survivors a chance to take legal action, but only for a limited time. if you were sexually abused by a priest, scout leader, coach or teacher contact us confidentially today. it's time. hello and welcome to viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world, i'm michael holmes, coming up on "cnn newsroom," several videos captured the police killing of another man in the united states. what the footage reveals, and what it leaves unanswered. beijing taking action after resurgence of coronavirus cases. veteran journalist maria ressa found guilty of cyberlibel in

the philippines and critics say it's politically motivated prosecution by the duterte government. ♪ welcome everyone. for nearly three weeks straight now, u.s. has been consumed by protests against police brutality. latest flashpoint in the unrest is atlanta, georgia, where an officer killed a black man on friday. atlanta mayor vowing on sunday that america will quote get to the other side of this. the medical examiner says rayshard brooks, 27, died from two gunshot wounds to the back which caused organ damage and blood loss. district attorney considering felony murder charges against the police officer who shot him and is expected to make a

decision on charges by wednesday. that officer was fired and atlanta police chief also resigned in the wake of this latest incident. killing of brooks reigniting the fury over the death of george floyd in minneapolis last month which set off nationwide and worldwide demonstrations against racial injustice. and we're getting a clearer picture of the moments leading up to that shooting. deadly encounter captured on police body cam and other video. cnn's boris sanchez has a report from the scene. >> reporter: large crowds have come and gone from wendy's in south atlanta where rayshard brooks was shot and killed friday night. many protesting, some setting up makeshift memorial. what is captured on camera of the incident friday night paints a complex picture. brooks at different points joking with police officers, engaging in polite conversation but in one fell swoop, everything changes.

we should warn you, some of this video is graphic and difficult to watch. responding to call at wendy's, officer devin brosnan approached rayshard brooks' car. >> what's up my man. hey, my man. hey, hey man, you're parked in middle of the drive-through line here. hey. sir! what's up, man. you're parked in the drive-through right now. hey, sir? you all right? >> reporter: asleep in the drive-through lane, police body cam footage shows the 27-year-old does not respond right away. >> are you tired? all right, man. i'll move my car, just pull off somewhere and take a nap, all

right. you good? >> yeah. >> reporter: brooks wakes up and agrees to move his car before he appears to fall asleep again. >> my man, go back to sleep, got to move your car. you went back to sleep. >> reporter: brooks moves to nearby parking spot where brosnan asked -- >> how much did you drink tonight? how much is not much? one drink? any drugs? >> i don't do drugs. >> reporter: brooks struggles to find his license and tries to step out of the car. >> i'm going to get out. >> no, just stay in the car for a minute. just your license. >> reporter: brosnan radios for another officer to conduct a dui test. >> he's pretty out of it, got a good amount of liquor in him right now. >> when officer garrett rolfe

arrives, denies ever having been asleep. >> reason we're here, somebody called 911 because you were asleep in the drive-through, do you recall that? >> i don't. >> you don't recall minutes ago, passed out behind the wheel in drive-through? >> nuh-uh. >> reporter: agrees to breathalyzer test, then tells the police -- >> i know you're just doing your job. >> reporter: tries to handcuff brooks, he resists. brosnan readying taser. brooks grabs it out of his hand. breaking free, brooks punches rolfe who fires his stun gun as brooks takes off. here's the moment the altercation becomes deadly. we slowed it down for you. rolfe chasing brooks, each man carrying a taser. rolfe moves taser from right hand to left and reaches toward his hand gun.

that's when brooks turns and fires the taser and rolfe shoots, firing three times at brooks as he flees. bystanders almost immediately become cursing and shouting at the officers. >> both of your careers are definitely done because you just shot a man for no reason! >> reporter: a few minutes after he's shot, officers rolfe and brosnan begin to offer medical attention. >> keep breathing. >> reporter: he's rushed to nearby hospital where he's later pronounced dead. officer rolfe who opened fire has been terminated. officer brosnan who first responded is on administrative duty. and erika shields, chief of police in atlanta, resigned over the weekend. there's ongoing investigation with potential charges coming this week. boris sanchez, cnn, atlanta. >> even with the video,

prosecutors have a lot to consider as they decide whether to charge the former officer with murder. cnn legal analyst joey jackson breaks is down for us. >> was the officer who fired the shot in immediate fear of death or serious physical injury? prosecutors will analyze that question closely and look to see how much time the officer had to react. number two, did the force the officer used, was it proportionate to the threat that rayshard posed at that time and number three, whether or not he acted reasonably, the officer under the question. there are people who can agree or disagree with respect to how it can be analyzed. question remains whether or not you had to elevate to next step of deadly force. what if anything else could you have done to preserve and protect a life? i think that's the question. i think force has to be the

final, last resort and when someone is running away, highly problematic even when firing a taser that you felt you were going to die. that's what i think prosecutors will analyze when they render a decision wednesday. >> some of the moments of the shooting and before it were difficult to watch, it was emotional for atlanta's mayor who talked about it earlier on cnn. >> reality is, what can you say? i've watched the body cam video. i watched it for 30 minutes. i watched the interaction with mr. brooks, and it broke my heart when he talked about his daughter's birthday party he was planning for. this is not confrontational. this was a guy that you were rooting for. and even knowing the end, watching it, you're going just let him go, just let him go.

let him call somebody to pick him up. protesters in seattle continue to hold a six-block area around defunct police station, called it autonomous zone. police eventually want back in. >> reporter: it is a beautiful and sungy afternoon here in seattle, that's pushed the crowds to level i don't think we've seen throughout this occupation. you can see all the people down there. it is a festival setting where you have barbecues and live music and different speakers on the stage. behind me you can see native americans that have been doing a drum ceremony. see the tepee there. the centerpiece of the occupation is the police precinct behind me.

when the officers vacated last week, did de-escalate the tension between protesters and police but question now is when might officers get back into the station. police chief was asked about that today. take a look. >> i wish i had answer to how throng might last, i can tell you want to move forward quickly and efficiently as possible. want to be back in precinct doing work but don't want anyone to be harmed. don't want this to be something that devolves into a force situation. trying to take methodal, practical approach to reach a resolution where everyone gets out of here safely. >> reporter: chief says because officers are not in the station it's taking triple amount of time to respond to calls in the area. would like them back as soon as possible but right now seems to be no plan or strategy for that

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america's top expert on infectious diseases warns life under the coronavirus pandemic may not return to normal until next year. dr. anthony fauci's prediction comes as parts of the u.s. have been struggling to contain the outbreak. at least 18 states still reporting a rise in new infections. overall the country tistill lea the world in confirmed cases, by far. not even close. brazil has second largest numbers and outbreak is getting bad there as well. 17,000 new cases, at least 612 new deaths. beijing reporting 79 new cases of the coronavirus after breakout at what is considered the largest food market in asia. china's capital had gone 56 days without seeing any new cases.

now 11 neighborhoods are on lockdown and every new medical patient with a fever will be tested for covid-19. steven jiang joins me now from beijing. tell us more about the new numbers and the details. >> reporter: beijing had not reported new cases for almost two months until last thursday. since then dozens of new cases, almost all linked to wholesale food market which housed thousands of vendors and saw huge crowds on daily basis. that's why the authorities have shut it down and sealed off the market and surrounding area, also growing number of neighborhoods with reported cases under strict lockdown. conducting extensive contact tracing and mass testing for anyone who had visited this market since may 30th, as well as close contacts. sunday alone they tested more than 76,000 people of whom 59

people tested positive. now we're also seeing all of these very strict, obsessive health checks and screening measures making a strong comeback across the city. things had been easing off, now students who had just returned to schools are being told they have option to study from home again. another sign how concerned the authorities are, with situation described as severe with lingering uncertainty. >> with the food market issue, how do the concerns impact the food supply and food safety side of things? it's huge place as you said. >> reporter: used to provide 70% of the city's vegetables, 10% of its pork. when it was closed down saturday caused a lot of concern for local residents. there's some initial panic buying online but government has

promised to deploy supplies from elsewhere to ensure the food supplies. right now there are ample supplies of food items but there's another concern because officials have found traces of the virus in multiple environmental samples taken from the market, including chopping boards for chopping pork and salmon, that's prompted restaurants to take the fish off their shelf and menus and officials vowing to strengthen inspection of cargos from overseas. michael. >> steven jiang there in beijing, thank you. u.s. surgeon general is urging more americans to wear face masks. on twitter jerome adams said they could help lessen the

asymptomatic spreading. everyone should wear them, even those attending the president's rally in oklahoma. >> people must observe the safety guidelines, must. social distancing must be observed. face coverings in key cases must be observed. >> i'm glad you're calling for people to wear masks, also in the trump rally in tulsa people should be wearing masks this saturday. >> okay, probably so. >> joining me now, professor from texas a&m university, professor led a team of researchers who published a study of face masks, does show it's most effective way to prevent infections. let's talk more about this study with the professor. yeah, this study was fascina fascinating.

found that masks alone prevented more than 78,000 infections in italy over brief period of time. 66,000 in new york city. bottom line is they work. there are many different rules around the u.s. do you think wearing them should be mandatory? >> yes. basically what we're looking at here, we looked directly into the data, trend of the pandemic. looked into three places, first, wuhan, china, second was italy, third was new york city. what we are looking here is how they -- the cases, total infections and also how the curve goes, like in china, they have almost simultaneous implementation of different measures, so very difficult to see. but in italy and new york city, what they did was first in

italy, locked down the city. decent period after that is how the curve is going up and start to implement face covering. finally like in new york city, mandatory -- mandate for face covering was implemented april 17th, then basically what you look at here, how the cases, need the curve to change and become flattening and start to bend. and basically in italy and new york city, the curve really started bending, to bend, when face masks was implemented. >> so they work. it's a bit of a no-brainer in a way but there is a lot of resistance to it. particularly in the u.s. and west in general. why do you think westerners are resistant to wearing them?

>> that's very interesting question. if i consider most countries in asia, like china, japan, and south korea, i think they have tradition. one of the problems there, the air was very clouded. they had -- like china and india had tremendous problems with air pollution. everybody knows that putting on face mask will protect yourself. people are sort of used to those practices. in the u.s. we are just used to blue skies and people don't feel comfortable putting on those face masks. >> and i know you're a scientist, but there's a political aspect to this, there has been mixed messaging from leaders. new york governor mandating masks. surgeon general strongly advising their use. but president and administration in general pretty much actively

avoiding them. there's a photograph tweeted by vice president of him in front of dozens of staff members, no spacing, no masks. i'm curious, as someone who has seen the effectiveness of them, what is the risk of that sort of messaging from the top? >> i find it's very hard to understand this situation. but as a scientist, i believe the disease is preventible, by taking important procedures. to me, i think you will greatly reduce the chance you're going to contract the virus if you put on a face mask and then you practice good hand hygiene as well as practicing social social distancing. so i simply do not understand why people are so resistant to

all these things. >> wanted to ask one final question, there's going to be big political rally in tulsa next week. 20,000 or more people in a auditorium. would you go to that? >> i would not go to there. i think it's very unsafe. unless everybody's putting on a face mask. >> right. really fascinating study, and i appreciate your time, professor renyi zhang, texas a&m. thank you so much. >> thank you. french president emmanuel macron is speeding up easing of restrictions. announcing that starting monday cafes and restaurants can reopen and traveling everywhere in europe will be allowed. but emphasized the importance of

remaining vigilant. >> translator: this does not mean the virus is gone and we can completely drop our guard. we need to live with it for a long time more, respect social distancing. summer of 2020 will not be a summer like any other. we need to survey the evolution of the epidemic, be prepared in case it comes back stronger. >> mr. macron also promised to build a stronger economic model less reliant on global supply chains. spain is set to welcome visitors from eu with the exception of portugal beginning june 21st. won't have to go into quarantine reopening. delay with portugal, spanish prime minister says it's at request of the portuguese government. taking a lot to get world's largest economy going again. coming up, how the u.s. hopes to

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update for you now on the latest police involved shooting in the u.s. medical examiner says rayshard brooks died from two gunshot wounds to the back after scuffle with white police officer at fast food drive-through here in atlanta, georgia, this friday. that officer since fired and could face charges later this

week. incident throwing more fuel on the united states's raging struggles with racism and setting off new protests across the country. silver lining from the mayor is it's leading to conversations about racial bias. look at some of the body cam video. some of the pictures are disturbing. first you see officers approach rayshard brooks' car at wendy's drive-through because he had apparently fallen asleep in line. >> yo. don't go back to sleep. just pull over there. >> i got you. >> all right. >> step out, please. >> yes, sir. >> do you have any weapons on you? >> i don't have anything on me. >> is it okay if i pat you down, to make sure?

>> after a field sobriety test one officer says brooks has had too much to drink. moves in to arrest him. as you see there, and then the struggle begins. >> stop. stop. you're going to get tased. >> stop. >> you're going to get tased. >> [ bleep ]. >> hands off the taser. hands off the taser. >> during all of that, brooks did grab one of the officer's tasers and started to run now look at another angle, slowed down. you can see the officer chasing brooks. brooks turns and points the taser at the officer, do see a flash, discharges, a moment later he's shot by the officer. demonstrators continue to gather across the u.k., calling for racial justice. black lives matter activists holding protests in london and

leeds on sunday were relatively peaceful compared to saturday when scuffled broke out between antiracism demonstrators and far right protesters. powerful image has emerged of black protester carrying a white man to safety. patrick hutchinson said he picked the man up after noticing he was injured after the clashes. spoke to cnn about the moments leading up to that moment. >> reporter: is this you in the photograph? >> yes, that is me in that photograph. >> reporter: can you describe to me what's happening in this picture? >> my friends and i put a cordon around this man, he was on the stairs. lying in fetal position, with -- anything about to happen to him. first time i saw him, climbed underneath to pick him up. >> reporter: you could have thought he is my enemy, why did you choose to help him?

>> there was a particular thought i had that you know, you have to show some sort of love for your fellow man, okay, regardless. because i was saying if the other three officers that were present when george floyd was unfortunately murdered, if they, just one, had stepped in, and stopped their fellow officer from doing what he did, he would be alive today. >> reporter: put him on your shoulder, carried him over to the police. then what happened? >> i'm carrying him, friends surrounding me, protecting myself and man on my shoulder. he was still receiving blows. could sort of feel people trying to hit him. carried him over to the police, and i said here you are. and one of the police officers said thank you, did a good thing there. >> reporter: what do you want people to take away when they look at that picture? >> hopefully take away breaking down the race barriers and

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a court in the philippines has found journalist maria ressa guilty of cyberlibel. former cnn bureau chief and founder and ceo of the news site "rappler," which has produced extensive coverage of president

rodrigo duterte and his war on drugs. say it's motivated prosecution by the duterte government. i spoke to maria last hour, she says the verdict will not affect rappler's coverage. >> when great power attempts to hang a damocles sword on your head, if you allow it to affect you, they succeed. because you're not doing the investigative journalism you should be doing. we learned at "rappler" to swat it away, keep your eye on the ball. makes me wonder and worry, what is the government afraid of? why are they afraid of journalists, why must they always make me feel their power? i think i'm a nice person, i ask very respectfully, our reporters are very respectful, but they just don't like the questions. we need to get back to this idea

of checks and balances. anna with more from hong kong, a controversial case. give us more of a sense of the background. >> you heard maria talking about the filipino government, afraid of the questions that journalists are asking. president rodrigo duterte has taken exception to what maria ressa and the journalists at "rappler" have asked. they've been on a crusade about his war on drugs. killings taken place across the philippines. this put a target on maria's back. there were 11 criminal charges against maria, been reduced to eight. today she's been convicted of one, cyberlibel case. amnesty international, human rights watch, everybody is coming out to say this is

absolute sham, president duterte trying to silence the independent media. and maria, she said she was devastated but of course prepared for what could happen, and this is getting attention right around the world. take a listen to what maria said straight after the verdict. >> i appeal to you the journalists in this room, the filipinos who are listening, to protect your rights. we are meant to be a cautionary tale. we are meant to make you afraid. right? so i appeal again, don't be afraid. because if you don't use your rights, you will lose them. >> there you heard maria getting a little bit choked up. she's obviously a very optimistic, positive person.

i spoke to her on the way to court this morning, and she said she was feeling good but prepared. i should say that one of her lawyers is amal clooney, high profile human rights lawyer who issued statementment today a court in philippines became complicit in silencing journalist for exposing corruption and abuse. affront to the rule of law and blow to democracy in the philippines. called on the u.s. government to take note of what is happening. maria ressa is filipino but also a u.s. citizen, educated at princeton. "time" person of the year in 2015 because of what she's doing in the philippines, it's a dangerous place to be a

journalist, yet she's decided this is her path. she could have fled to the u.s., escaped the charges, she chose to face the music and fight for not just other journalists but for the filipino public who she believes deserves the truth. >> yeah, incredibly moral and courageous journalist, anna, good to see you, thanks for that. global stocks could be heading for another volatile week. u.s. stock futures are done as investor concerns increase over possibility of second wave of covid-19 cases. several u.s. states have reopened weeks ago, now reporting rising infections and hospitalizations. meanwhile the white house considering a fourth stimulus package that could be $2 trillion. john is in abu dhabi to break it down for us.

world is down, is this u.s.-driven effect? >> the selloff has accelerated in last 45 minutes of trail. we had wall street and main street very divided, almost numb to plight of the recovery here. but now with second wave in united states, impact on long-term job dislocation, there is rethink. asia in particular, selloff in nikkei and in seoul. shanghai has been stable but then the loss. and hong kong. and asia and the u.s. futures, extraordinary. the dow and s&p 500 futures, losses well over 2%. for the nasdaq, everybody touting that we hit 10,000. that's long gone.

percentage loss on the nasdaq is not as bad as other two major indices. it's worth noting when potential slow down, oil prices fall 2% or 3% as well. >> all concerning. we touched on this. white house doing this other bailout plan or talking about it. was against it, now pushing for it. what's the aim? >> that's the fastest pivot i've seen politically in long, long time. say $2 trillion or perhaps more, coming from peter navarro, a trade adviser to the united states. he's been controversial on trade with the u.s. and china, suggesting this is needed to entice manufacturers back to u.s. soil. making america buy american. this is politically charged of course. at the same time, which is odd here, larry kudlow, another economic adviser to the

president suggested that jobs are being restored and businesses starting to open up. what he said to jake tapper yesterday on the weekend programs. >> you've got new business applications skyrocketing, and by the way, small businesses are about 80% reopening. so this is all positive news coming off the pandemic. we are in the recovery stage. >> so he says we're in recovery stage, begs the question, michael, why do we need $2 trillion stimulus. nancy pelosi, house leader, suggesting $3 trillion. white house poured cold water on that. mitch mcconnell, ally of the president wants something smaller. but payroll tax to u.s. industry will add to the budget deficit and u.s. debt. will be difficult to pass in the house given favors to u.s. industries in this age.

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s. in just a few hours, a russian court will announce sentence on paul whelan. he is accused of espionage. rusch is asking for 18 years in a maximum security prison. he's been in jail since december 2018 and has pled not guilty to all charges. the u.s. ambassador to russia calls the proceedings a mockery of justice saying authorities haven't even let him see whelan and haven't provided u.s. officials with any evidence of the alleged crimes. nearly two dozen republican lawmakers are pushing back on a white house plan to draw down u.s. troops in germany. president trump has long criticized that country for not playing its part in nato standing. at least 34,000 u.s. troops are stationed in various parts of

germany. the exact number is unclear as some republicans as mr. trump stays committed to nato. joining me now, military analyst and former commanding general of u.s. army europe and the seventh army. good to see you. and not just because you commanded the troops that we're about to discuss. the president seems to think that u.s. troops, whether they're in germany or south korea or japan are somehow protecting those countries. yet they're protecting u.s. interests, are not they? >> what i would say, it is more in the strategic interests of the united states to have forces in europe and secondly, to have them where they are. there's quite a bit of infrastructure that support the soldiers in those locations. most of which are in germany because of the end of the second world war. we have spent literally billions of dollars to right size europe

from both the 1990s and in the early 2000s where the forces have already drawn down. and yes, it is very much in our strategic interests for a variety of reasons. and could i name ten of them for you right now. >> give me a couple. what is the impact on u.s. security interests? i mean, they're not there to fight a war. >> there is a deterrent force there but that's the smallest part of the force in europe. of the 30,000 u.s. army soldiers in europe, about two-thirds are logic igss or some type of support units. that usually happens with a military unit. only about 10,000 of the 30,000 there are actually combat forces. what most people dome understand, the forces in europe, in germany, are in places that support other could

not continents. not only europe that has 49 other countries that we deal with but also africa, the middle east and in some cases, when we conduct diplomatic relationships with russia. one of the big things we have there is a huge hospital. in fact, that hospital not only takes care of mill personnel but also some citizen personnel as well as the indices of the 49 countries in europe and the countries in africa and several in the middle east where we have embassies. ? i was going to say when it comes to the president's attitude to overseas, this weakens that alliance, all of it does, and that helps one person, doesn't it? >> it not only weakens nato but our relations with the countries that we engage with.

i spent ten years of my career doing engagements with other countries to help them become allies and they support one another. we will never go to war again without an ally. we'll never have peace keeping without an ally. it not only affects nato and germany, it affects our allies. >> and the one person it helps is vladimir putin. >> yes. >> one of the most interesting things is the almost universal opposition to this. you even had 22 republican members of the house armed services committee urging the president not to do this saying it would significantly damage u.s. national security and strengthen russia. that's republican members of the committee. why would he be doing this? >> that's an unanswerable question. you're right.

there's certainly bipartisan support. because most of the members of congress have staff. when i went through as a commander, the last drawdown, it took the force in europe from 90,000 to 30,000, i was in congress almost on a monthly basis telling them, our troop to task function. how many we needed to accomplish the multiple missions we had there. so most of the congressional staffers and many of the congressmen understand that it is a very small force fighting way above their weight class, and they are all muscle and no fat in europe. you can barely accomplish the missions they have with the number of forces over there. >> it's interesting that a lot of the talk is about, well, sometimes the president has mentioned the cost of it. you have to base them somewhere. it is still going to cost money even if you ship them back to the states. i mean, i was interested, too, about russia's posture. we're pretty much out of time but russia is already muscling

in on the balancikans and elsew. what could he do to bolster the forces? >> mr. putin and his military have been very adept using what they call conflict and asymmetric warfare. in many of the countries in europe. the baltics, romania, i could go through a litany. what is interesting, the focus seems to be on germany. the u.s. forces in europe, their strategic deterrence is on any kind of broadening of the russian expansion. what we saw the last time when president obama said he would pivot to asia, russia perked up their ears and they started to be a little more demonstrative in their approach to broadening their attempts at influence and it was not a good thing. that was back this 2008, 2009 time frame. we've seen it before and don't want to see it again. >> always good to see you.

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