this is d.w. news live from berlin anti-racism protests spread across america the u.s. national guard assented to minneapolis as anger spills over into violence following the death of a black man in police custody earlier this week. meanwhile president trump risks inflaming those tensions with a new tweet he threatens when the looting starts the shooting starts twitter labels to tweet as floor find violence also coming out. indian farmers resort to music to scare off locusts the region's worst plague and

decades is also fueling fears about food security in neighboring pakistan. and as russia's lockdown hides a shocking surging mastic abuse cases we meet a moscow hotel owner who is opening her doors to women in need of shelter. i'm serious i was gonna glad you could join us the national guard has been deployed to the us city of minneapolis during a 3rd straight night on rast protests have rocked the city after a black man died in police custody earlier this week and those protests have now spread to other cities including denver l.a. and memphis but the killing of george floyd has left many apple us in particular reeling with scenes of violence and anger. riots

across minneapolis for the 3rd night protesters stormed a police station forcing the officers inside to flee they want justice for george floyd who died in police custody over get a conviction. you know we know now we get a conviction here really there every week that we want to convict him we demand a call. and if the damage and looting the u.s. president weighed in with a series of tweets the u.s. leader branded the protest as thugs and criticize the mayor's handling of the crisis the mayor hit back donald trump knows nothing about the strength of minneapolis we are strong as hell is this a difficult time period yes but you better be damn sure that we're going to get through this. the day before have begun peacefully demonstrators gathered to mark george floyd's death chanting his last words yeah. it was

a reaction to the graphic video that captured the final minutes of floyd's life you know. all. i. know with the trust in police at rock bottom the national guard has been deployed in minneapolis but the army's presence on the street is unlikely to quell the community's sense of injustice. earlier we spoke to our correspondent stefan about the situation in minneapolis the apple is at least there where we are here is actually on fire here for the car can pan to the side here you see a building on fire but that's not the only one of course there's about 5 or 6 buildings here including the police precinct building precinct 3 building on fire behind me as well as a tobacco store and a liquor store people here are still. angry very angry and they're saying

or most of them at least saying that whatever happens right now here rioting not protesting is actually justified because authorities and the elites need to understand in their words that this is the end they are sick and tired of things happening as they did to george floyd and this is the result however i have to say we also have talked to protesters who say and i call them protesters who say that this is nothing to do with the protest anymore this is rioting and looting and we have witnessed this year ok let's get some perspective on the story we have jessica taylor with us she's an artist writer and host of black in berlin that's a series on race politics and race relations jessica thanks for joining us 1st of all you originally come from the u.s. so what do you think when you see these images of protests in many cities across the country. i am in deep grieving and mourning now as.

global black community and. protest so much say violent protests i think are a physical manifestation of the systems that need to be torn down the systems that need to be destructed we need long term systemically change when i see. the criticism on looting from the u.s. president when i see the criticism on the. news outlets i would love to have a conversation about the looting that's been going on during the pandemic by america's billionaires $400000000000.00 richer during this pandemic but that's not something that is the spotlight is on so you know it needs to be systemic change you know jessica are we talking really here about justice for george floyd this case or is this really about the deeper racial inequalities that you see in a place like minneapolis. definitely and all over the united states and globally the last month has been

a nightmare i'm on our prairie murdered on february 23rd shall i read may 6th briana taylor made 12 george floyd may 25th in just last night i heard about a trans black man in florida talking it daily murdered by police that was just yesterday so you know it's been a nightmare after nightmare trying after trauma this of course is you know a long legacy of racism and the manatee in the u.s. what is your message to people in positions of power and what is the discussion that needs to take place with the global black community to calm tensions right now . i don't know if we need to count tensions actually i think the tensions are exactly were they should be i think that the system as it was designed is working perfectly we have people that are being murdered black people that are being murdered and then outrage and the outrage over that outrage and the cycle just continues and you know news outlets in interviews like these the cycle

continues we are calling on institutions to change their policies we have the university of minnesota that just ended its contracts with the minnesota police department no longer support them at their football games this is a small but necessary step in the fight against institutional forces a white supremacy so we're calling on institutions to do this very necessary work right jessica taylor artist writer host of black and thank you so much for sharing your insights with us thank you for having me. well president trump's latest response to the protests in minneapolis has prompted twitter to flag a recent post for violating twitter rules against glorifying violence in a state which trump said quote these thugs are dishonoring the memory of george floyd and i won't let that happen he added that the military is ready to respond and said when the looting starts the shooting starts trump's latest controversial

tweet comes as the platform moved to fact check previous tweets the president now says twitter is biased against him he signed an executive order that he says is aimed at checking social medias power to censor communication. he calls it protecting free speech for the social media companies say it's a politicized approach to law trumps the latest executive orders designed to strip social media companies of their existing immunity when it comes to content published on their platform. and choices that twitter makes when it chooses to suppress blacklists shadow. or editorial decisions pure and simple their editorial decisions in those moments twitter seems to be a neutral public platform and they become and they're with a viewpoint and i think we can say that about others also this week twitter put fact check labels on 2 of the president's tweets that had unsubstantiated claims about voting by mail in the u.s.

twitter said it decided to do so because the content broke its rules on the key issue of voting trompette back and accuse twitter of trying to interfere in the 2020 presidential election and stuff for free speach. the business and technology sector is the order could code freedom of speech across the internet while legal experts are warning that it conflicts with the existing law which telling the congress not the president can change it really is a complete mess reading of section $230.00 it takes. a law that has been interpreted time and time again very very broadly by multiple federal circuit courts and just says i'm replacing all of this with my own interpretation that i have no right to give about how to interpret this that or a law and so no it's really not going to have any staying power in a court i may really is kind of just have a piece about it for the fall or that means the order will likely be challenged in

court ahead of the november presidential election. our intel 10 is looking into the story for us hi aaron we heard a legal analyst there talking about section $230.00 it's called the legal backbone of the internet why well section $230.00 basically establishes the legal framework that social media platforms used to deal with content online basically what it says is that their platforms not publishers that means they're not legally responsible for the content that users upload they have the ability to vet it and check it if it crosses certain boundaries and to hate speech into extreme sexism calls for terrorism violence etc etc but the end of the day that he sneak no legal blowback from what users are uploading now this is actually been for companies like twitter and facebook a great thing because of the last 20 years they've been. able to flourish and this law is a fair environment is letting anybody post anything that they want to incredibly quickly but starting in 2016 you started to see

a lot of calls of people saying we really need to address this section because they've been seen disingenuous political actors international groups terrorist groups hate groups increasingly using social media to radicalize people and actually sway the pendulum of public discussion to a different direction and ironically trump is one of the politicians has benefited most from this situation i mean the social media's especially twitter gives him an ability to speak directly to his our supporters and by addressing this in changing how section 22 or 230 works it could actually force these companies to start vetting his speech is which is what he's trying to prevent as a moment so what is he trying to accomplish by by this move then well basically i mean as we saw there in the piece he doesn't want social media is just specifically twitter to take a look at his content and say look this is either factual or it's not factual unfortunately trump does have a habit of making some rather erroneous claims on twitter and it's a way he gets his base fired up and he doesn't want the social media to actually

look at his the content of his posts and decide whether or not it's true or not because you know. that the end of the day that's what the mainstream media does and he's been using social media to bypass that for years so this seems to be a shot across the bow to kind of force their hand and i really think at the end of the day you have to see this in the context of the election cycle i mean trump is in a very contentious election campaign with joe biden right now he's down in many swing states and he's also facing extreme pressure from the mainstream media because of his handling of the coded 1000 crisis which depended upon the social media right now is really dependent on them to get their message out but unfortunately by changing section 2030 if it actually goes through this could actually go back in the other direction because it could cost american jobs if these companies need to retool how they do business it could also force them to vet his content before it goes online which is exactly what he wants to promote president just quickly how likely do you think it is that this executive order could actually go into effect i wouldn't exactly expect it in the near term because i mean at the end of the day as

we heard in the piece there legal scholars don't think this would actually pass muster then there's also the fact that these companies would take years to actually figure out ways to change their business model to become conform with this new governmental push and then also you have to realize it would take one to 2 years based on my research for this actually to take effect and that would place a squarely in the next term either of the trump presidency or of joe biden and you know i really wouldn't expect that this seems to be more a case of in my opinion very strong arm tactics from the white house purely for this current election cycle. aaron thank you so much for your analysis thank you. now india and pakistan are facing the worst plague of locusts in decades authorities in both countries to a food security crisis and even as pakistan struggles with the economic fallout of the coronavirus lock down its agricultural sector says the insect infestation poses a greater challenge. these tiny insects far from fussy eaters feasting in

swarms of millions they're now threatening to out pakistan's population at a critical time. you've got to look at is several times more dangerous than the coronavirus i would say it is a 100 times a 1000 times more dangerous than corona when you are fighting against coronavirus you had crops grains vegetables things to eat no one went to bed hungry. while pakistan's economy is reeling from the ongoing coronavirus lockdown the un's food and agriculture organization estimates agricultural losses from locusts could surpass 5000000000 dollars this year authorities have set up a national response team to assist 61 districts of the country that are under threat. fairly old to say after the 1st and 2nd weeks of june going to be critical for us because the locusts that are now in iraq

and in moscow will start heading towards pakistan all of us could do. to combat that we have stationed helicopters in various desert regions that fall along the way. station. in the meantime desperate farmers waiting for help have had to take matters into their own hands trying to drive locusts away with no use. in neighboring india it may sound like a party but there's nothing to celebrate as the country struggles with the same problem devastated crops a further threat to the region which is also struggling with the nomic costs of lockdown. here james is scrambling to stop the swarms before breeding can take place during the monsoon season which begins in july. let's take a look now some other stories making news around the world in hungary

commemorations began to mark the one year anniversary of a boat accident on the danube river which killed more than 2 dozen south korean tourists the visitors both collided with a river cruise ship its captain is on trial for alleged responsibility in the crash . the u.s. britain and japan have condemned to china's move to assert more authority over hong kong china voted to begin imposing a controversial new security law thursday pro-democracy protesters fear it will erode freedom and justice in the semi-autonomous territory. ethiopia has started to repatriate its citizens stranded in lebanon because of coronavirus restrictions several 100 people arrived in addis ababa from beirut on thursday thousands of ethiopian workers have registered to retell it return home but lebanon's high ticket prices and quarantine fees are making the trip difficult. german carmaker volkswagen says it will invest more than 2000000000 euros in china the targets are 2 electric motor with the company's v.w.

will become the biggest investor in the battery maker will shun both slackness also increasing its stake in the chinese electrical electric vehicle maker j a c motors. and let's talk about that with our financial correspondent only bar is in frankfurt for us hi ali so v.w. is putting even more money into china as we heard it's coming at a time where there's a lot of tension with beijing politically so is this a good move by folks back and. well long term it seems to fit a volkswagen strategy after all her birthday is to see your folks wagon worldwide has called out that he is wanting to make a volkswagen the world's number one electric car maker and also batteries which are also part of this investment decision to be a key technological component that volkswagen is good at so putting money into china putting money into batteries into e-cards goes along with the strategy and

don't forget china is the world's largest auto market the german market is tiny in comparison so regionally also seems to make sense from volkswagen corporate perspective if we look elsewhere in the auto industry you have a french car maker rayno is announcing it is cutting $15000.00 jobs but the problems there really are deeper than the coronavirus prices aren't they. yes they are and you know really the the problems that are there were already being addressed this week when the company renault with its alliance partners nisson and mitsubishi presented a new strategy and there it was all on the table everything that was going wrong at brno these past years really heartening also back to the days of the ones legendary carlos cohn too many people making too few cars earning. too little money with the renault wants to change this. drastically and part of the project is to cut

production and concentrate on the most profitable cars and there were no management obviously sees the need to slash a lot of jobs in that context only bartz for us in frankfurt good to talk to you. here's a look at some other developments in the corona virus pandemic the number of worldwide coronavirus cases of top 5800000 that's according to johns hopkins university brazil reported a daily record of new cases on thursday with more than $26000.00 fresh infections it is the 2nd hardest hit nation after the us california has reported the largest single day increase in cases since the pandemic started several other u.s. states are also seeing cases rise and authorities in moscow have adjusted the coronavirus death toll for april to more than double the previously reported count russia has the 3rd highest number of infections in the world and russia's human rights commissioner says domestic abuse cases have more than doubled under the

coronavirus lockdown many shelters have had to shut their doors under quarantine and that is left victims with fewer places to go but now a number of hotels are opening up to those looking to escape assault battery and other abuse happening in their own homes davies emily sherwin went to find out more . one into not consenting isn't letting russia's lockdown stop her she's using the time to redecorate her moscow hotel and since the pandemic has kept guests away she decided to show her domestic violence survivors a crisis center now sends women who have nowhere to go to her hotel because women's shelters have gone into quarantine. i have quite a lot of friends or acquaintances who've experienced domestic violence i want to help i couldn't always help my friends. sometimes i could sometimes not

but now i can help someone else. valentino's hotel is right in the middle of this my lusty market which normally draws tourists with its typical russian look. usually these stands would be full of souvenirs and bric a brac in this market would be bustling with people but during lockdown it's become a quiet place to escape. hotels cost which translates as fairy tale has become a saving grace $1.00 of the domestic abuse survivors staying here is the singer 30 came here about a month ago. it wasn't the 1st time my husband hit me and even without the quarantine. no wonder you love someone you should give them the heat. but the 4th of the 5th time it's just impossible to you know just beat something

clicks in your head. it made me just get up and leave. i couldn't stand it any more. so you should just wish to be domestic violence is not a criminal offense in russia there are no official statistics and what goes on behind closed doors is often considered a family matter but since the lockdown began women's advocacy organizations have reported a significant rise in domestic abuse it gets down the heat on the countries there are mechanisms in place to fight against domestic violence restraining orders strict legislation and lauren falls from agencies that have told how to deal with these situations unfortunately russia doesn't have that that's why more cases here and murder and more women stay in abusive relationships because they don't have the tools to get out of them that. constantine of a plans to keep posting domestic abuse survivors even after the lockdown and her

hotel is giving women like you the strength to start over. but when it is their own. the boston marathon has been canceled for the 1st time in its 124 year history due to the coronavirus pandemic the race has gone ahead through 2 world wars and the volcanic eruption organizers this year cited social distancing problems especially preventing crowds from gathering along the marathon route the marathon was initially postponed to september from april that's now been replaced with a virtual effect. 2 weeks after the men's bonus league of the women is now also. it season the 1st games will take place on friday and saturday after a 3 month suspension due to the pandemic the players from the 12 club states with

individual workouts until they could resume team training. germany's female footballers are back in business while women's leagues in england and elsewhere have scrapped their seasons the bundesliga will restart its 30th campaign. i think it sends a very big message to the world and not just the women's football world that women's football is back. but the restart does have its issues 1st of all it costs money mandatory coronavirus tests are financed by the f.a. but the clubs will have to pony up for additional expenses like hotels and security personnel and their t.v. revenues are peanuts compared to the men's league just $67000.00 euros per club the biggest source of income is sponsorship money that gives an advantage to established clubs like buying munich and perennial champions false board. i.

want to make clear that anyone who's not prepared to take the next steps will find it very very difficult to play in the women's sport in just league. i think it would be difficult for exclusively women's football clubs to win multiple titles because of their financial situation for. smaller clubs like a season which has reached the cup final twice could be left behind they are dependent on local companies which themselves are in trouble because of the coronavirus crisis they may have to reduce their financial support to their clubs or end it all together the clubs cannot expect any help from the f.a.a. either. as a registered association specifically a nonprofit registered association we cannot give or donate anything to the business operations of the individual clubs without compensation. even turbin a potsdam can no longer make waves in the bundesliga the club won 6 league titles and 2 champions league trophies but those successes are unlikely to ever be

repeated. it is still with us as do i believe the current situation will either stabilize or worsen the clubs don't know what can be invested in the long term whether their partners will still exist in 2 years and be able to invest the same amount that makes it easier for big clubs like byron munich and ball sports. the small clubs will have to get creative and hope they manage to pull off a surprise every once in a while. our top story here on the national guard has been deployed in the us city of minneapolis as for a 3rd night of protests and writing sparked by the death of an encore black man in police custody the mayor has called for criminal charges to be filed against the officer involved in the death of children slowing. you're watching news for all of us here in berlin thank you for being with us.

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