i need to stop there's something wrong with. the cleaners social media's shadow industry starts tonight on t w. this is day the big news live from berlin on to racism protests spread across the united states the national got sent into minneapolis as i guess spills over into violence along the death of a black man in police custody this week the police officer involved in the incident is charged with also on the program. president trump tweets when the looting starts the shooting starts twitter says the tweet glorifies fun.

fun filled gal welcome to the program one of the police officers involved in the death of a black man in the u.s. city of minneapolis has been charged with murder an eye witness video caught the white officer naming on george floyd's neck as he was being detected around $500.00 national guard troops have been deployed to the city after a 3rd night of unrest and protests have spread to cities including phoenix denver and columbus but george floyd's death has left minneapolis in particular reeling. smoke rises from buildings set ablaze during minneapolis' longest night of unrest yet the police and national got and now out on the streets in force to keep the protest from flaring up again. it was alleged police misconduct that brought people

out onto the straights saying. outrage police over rates did not stop officers from arresting a c.n.n. crew reporting from the saying i'm sorry ok you know moderates are why our parts long as crew would like to relate to one second over not the police station where the officers involved in george floyd's death was set on fire. medio is what spock the and the rest of my media outlets resident floyd being pinned to the ground by an officer dying moments later. what you want to read. that he's fine the woods now echoed by protesters in minneapolis and elsewhere. protests of police brutality have been gripping many u.s.

cities violence broke out in kentucky and elsewhere offices have denied firing the shots 6 that wounded 7 people but the denial is unlikely to diffuse the tensions that have the country at breaking point. will start to minneapolis then why we joined the correspondent to stefan seaman so welcome stefan some major developments in the last couple of hours. yeah you can say that the reaction here from the crowd standing in front of the row of his state police state troopers right behind me was quite joyous that was the news of the arrest there was actually a bigger reaction to this then to the news that he was finally charged with murder 2nd degree murder and manslaughter and that's translates into looking at 25 years in prison if this is all going down in court and the prosecutor wants this to happen they already said that they took 3 days 4 days to investigate this and that

is the fastest time i have ever seen brought charges against a police officer here in the united states but that took 4 days so they can make this a watertight case that also explains that they are still investigating the officer who has been arrested and who faces murder charges now but also the other 3 who are still not under arrest but the things that look calm. what's going on. you know they are of course yesterday last night when we were there there was nobody there all those guys here there was no state trooper there was no national guard there was nobody there and that explains let me step aside what you can see because this truck is pouring through but 500 meters down the line this structure after structure burned to the ground 1st mooted then burned to the ground

. police didn't show up they just vanished yesterday and the day before actually and now they hear you see those little boulders and barricades. things calm down for now but we're talking through and talk to some people here say like this is is not over yet there is a night to come in the weekend so we will see a lot of apprehension here in this case has been taken out across the united states why is that stuff. i think i think this really cuts deep not deeper as all the other cases we have seen through the years through the last years david garner trevor martin and the list goes on and on and on and on but it brought. it it brought so much pain to the surface of the african-american community who are and they're facing systemic systemic racism

everywhere not just in police and other institutions and in other organizations too it is rampant not only in minneapolis it's an american it's a u.s. problem maybe not alone in the world but it is really really really evident in the united states on many many levels and in many many ways for african-american citizens here and. they are saying it is absolutely enough they can't take it anymore and lying rioting and looting it is for them to show it's enough hear us here on an hour we're done with this we're not accepting this anymore we do not ever want to see a video like this again with a white police officer putting his knee on the neck of a person that let him die. in siemens and minneapolis thank you. twitter has covered up a controversial tweet from president to trump about the on last in minneapolis president chum tweeted that when the looting stops the shooting stops which the company decided promoted violence the president believes to it is biased against

him and other conservative commentators so his signed an executive order aimed to check social media's power. he calls it protecting free speech follows social media companies say it's a politicized approach to law donald trump's latest executive order is 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. are editorial decisions pure and simple their editorial decisions in those moments twitter seems to be a neutral public platform and they become an editor 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 trump it back and accuse twitter of trying to interfere in the 2020 presidential election and stuff for free speach. the business and technology sector is argue the order could curb 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 misreading 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 at oral 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. as well as take

a closer look at this material said catherine from the lead mit's institute for media research in hamburg welcome to d w why does it matter whether twitter is a neutral platform or publishes the stuff that appears on it. it matters greatly because if the is. a platform it is under this section $230.00 not liable for content posted by users that's the 1st part and the 2nd part which often gets forgotten is the platforms such as twitter are also have the right to it content if they act as a good samaritan they acted in good faith and that is what trump doesn't want to happen so when the president says that if try to interfere with his with what he tweet then he's effectively an editor he does seem to have a point. well they are protected in that role and

a section 213 what he wants the federal communication commission to do now is to reinterpret the law by saying twitter is no longer allowed to comment on his tweets but in us law platforms have a independent 1st amendment right to expression so they can read it that they can't comment they can fact check and this has been confirmed by the courts up to the supreme court time and time again he's just wrong on the law this is an act of political posturing so that brings america's $43.00 experts are right down and and everybody does seem to be reins against the president on this do you think that is this is pure posturing or do you think that he's trying to achieve something else by doing this. when he's trying to achieve something and he has achieved already something namely now we're talking about that as

a legal question but it is not actually a legal question it is a political act an attempt to divide the platforms to divide facebook from twitter as we've seen to do to divide the democrats because they have also called for stronger regulation of platforms and he's trying to rally his base he is afraid of being confronted. with his failures regarding fighting corona and he's now trying to open a new front and he has been rather successful as we see from lots of media coverage that is actually focusing on this as a legal question when it is actually a political attack against the most important law protecting internet freedom of expression i say this is a distraction it's interesting what do you say there about dividing social media because of course a facebook has taken a completely different stance on this and twitter. they have yes even though they

themselves also use fact checking and they are rather proud of it and rightly so so it is not quite understandable why they should choose to be much more reluctant this time around so given that president trump tweets so extensively is there a chance that this executive order might in fact backfire on him. it might yes because what if there's one thing that twitter can and the to do something that even he hasn't tried to to make them stop is to delete tweets so if he's telling them you shouldn't dettori allies you shouldn't act and the $230.00 protection which you have they could still delete his tweets and he wouldn't be able to do anything against that as it's also been confirmed time and time again twitter is the owner of its platform they decide what stays online and what doesn't thank you for clearing that up mathias a cattleman thank you thank you the united states and britain have raised

concerns about hong kong ptolemy at a meeting of the un security council this week china moved ahead with a new security law that critics and rights activists say will be used to quash political dissent in the territory the european union has also criticised the beijing warning that china was in breach of its international commitments. the view of hong kong from above is stunning but what is happening in the city itself is straining e.u. relations with china the blow to civil rights and the heavy handed approach by police. foreign ministers expressed concern but took no action at least for now. we continue trying to put. pressure on the chinese authorities people and he said that he didn't think sanctions were the right way to solve the problems with china the e.u. is being cautious leaders hope delicate negotiations now underway will give european companies more access to the huge chinese market brussels would also like to bring

beijing on board in climate talks a summit with the chinese government set for september should finalize these deals renewed unrest in hong kong has led to calls for the summit scheduled in germany to be cancelled berlin disagrees to the gig. you might also come to the opposite conclusion and say that it is especially important for the european union to sit unified and cohesive at the table and be able to also discuss the uncomfortable topics prescription but it's not clear whether the e.u. has the clout to put pressure on china for beijing taking more control over hong kong is a key issue. the boston marathon has been canceled for the 1st time in its 124 year history because of the global health emergency race is going to head through 2 world wars and after the act terrorist attack in 2030 organizers they'd be conservation and social distancing problems especially crowds gathered along the

route version of events is to be how instead. it is time to remind of our top story the u.s. national guard has been deployed to the city of minneapolis following the 3rd night of protests like mad police custody the officer seen in the bible this video is made to the next not has been charged with. i'll have both of you at the top of the hour in the meantime of course as always the web site e.w. dot com have a good. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. hour carona update. covert 19 special next on d w. w's crime fighters are back africa's most successful radio

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