dot com. rage and racism in the united states tonight the white officer who knelt on the neck of a black man as he pleaded for faces murder charges will he answer for the death of george floyd and will it placate the protesters a president trump has called fox i'm phil gale in berlin this is the day. we are here is actually on fire. there is a lot of pain and anger right now in our city. to try.

to. as we put a presence on the street. to see justice and he. also coming up a secret police on trial here in germany and the mother still fighting for her missing husband and son we're caught up. now biggest dream is to see their leadership being brought to justice for. him to pass out. but we begin with the racial tensions are once again boiling over in the united states a city of minneapolis a scene days of violent protests following the death of a black man in police custody this week george floyd was seen on video how cuffed and clean as

a white police officer. knelt on his neck for more than 5 minutes that officer is now facing charges of 30 cremata is to floyd's death as left me in this really with scenes of violence and akka on thursday night the police station where the offices of a base was set on fire and other flashpoints of awesome and looting across the city police and national guard now out on the streets in force to keep protests from flaring up again. minnesota governor tim waltz a call for an end to the violent protests saying he expected swift justice for the police officers involved in george floyd's death we cannot have the looting and the recklessness that went on we cannot have it as we can't function as a society and i refuse to have it take away the attention of the stain that we need to be working on is what happened with those fundamental institutional racism that

allows a man to be held down in broad daylight and thank god a young person at a camera to video it because there's not a person here or listening today that wonders how many times that cameras are not there. well governor waltz also apologized to say at the end say he takes total responsibility for the arrest of one of the network's crews as they reported on the protests the incident was caught on camera a black c.n.n. correspondent being handcuffed and taken away when 2 colleagues officers gave a reason for their attention the journalists were later excuse me the officers gave no reason for the attention journalists were later released after they were confirmed to be members of the league. there in l.a. for more well after minnesota's nights of violence president to trump threatened military action if necessary to bring minneapolis under control he tweeted these thugs are dishonoring the memory of george floyd and i won't let that happen just

spoke to governor tim waltz and told him that the military is with him all the way any difficulty and we will assume control but when the looting starts the shooting starts thank you well about tweet caught the eye of twitter moderators who hid behind a warning that it violated their rules about glorifying violence the tweet was later reposed on the white house twitter account with no action from twitter. and so through some of the masses arising from this with angela myers who is 2nd vice president with the us civil rights organization the end of an ice age pay that's a national association for the advancement of colored people she joins us from minneapolis a welcome to d.w. let's start with your reaction please to the news of the arrest of one of the 4 officers involved in mr floyd's death and he's charged with murder. i think that's a start so we see that he was charged with the same charges that

officer mohammed nor was charged with after the death of justin demond. from what we see on that video and also from the knowledge that is now coming out facts about the relationship that the officer. had with george floyd before this incident i believe that and we believe. that those charges are actually completely to soft and we were asking for harsher charges on and officers around him we're looking at something where george floyd and derek chauvin possibly had a 17 year old a 17 year relationship we now for a fact and councilwoman andrea jenkins reported on it last night councilman who is here in minneapolis saying that both of them both floyd and officer worked at

a nightclub called new day 0 here in minneapolis with ships that overlap so we're looking at something that is premeditated murder these people knew a shot there and also possibly even a conspiracy to murder this so you're looking for harsher charges to be brought to we look at the the the wider context of this because this is something that the rest of us outside the united states look i gassed at this off repeated across the u.s. law enforcement stops a black man kills him for dubious reasons sometimes on camera often not yet few prosecutions the last and even fewer succeed what is does this point to a wind of a problem that is wider than just many of us. yes it does so we're seeing less across the country when you see it you know a lot very often you know to say even to see it want some mom and this is a things that we see of videos that are captured on facebook live we now and we

hear of other instances the minneapolis and deals with other instances where there is little to no proof but i'm saying that this is what happened to me by the police officer and maybe even showing bruises but because they walk away a lot i have a lot of times they do not report these things there is a mass intimidation in the african-american community to report police brutality especially when you barely walked away with your life. interrupted what you've. pointed to very wide there's a pattern here but what i want to get off is why is this happening why is it that police officers seem to think that it is ok to kill black people and the system them up by not charging them. so you're asking a question so i mean i can point to the historical reasons why there are you know

they feel like they're allowed to and the historical reasons why or is that they you know the police officers the us and always have the police and the modern day police precincts and departments were born out of actually folk who. gather together to. slave catchers in the civil war before the civil war and during the answer about one period so you know these are literally the structures that are worn out lavery the incarceration of african-americans and the mass incarceration of them after african-americans were not valued as property for the white masters they were then hide out and then put into prisons and under our 13th amendment you know like. this is an old habit that dies hard. we thank you for your time. well if the process of violence

in the wake of george floyd killing seems a little like deja vu it's because we have seen it all before the incident sparked by racism violence against black man by police and often impunity for those responsible for their deaths has led to some of the biggest protests of the past decade. in missouri august 24th teen peaceful protest has turned into chaos property damage and heavy handed police response sparked by the fatal shooting of michael brown a black teenager by white police officer darren wilson. wilson said he acted in self defense by witnesses said michael brown had his hands raised in surrender before he was killed the police officer was acquitted setting off waves of protest. just

a month earlier eric garner had been choked to death by a police officer in new york city suspected of selling cigarettes illegally. his last words caught on tape before he lost consciousness i can't breathe the officer was not charged. with. the deaths of michael brown and eric garner sets in motion months of protests across the country giving world wide recognition to the black lives matter movement. 2015 a week of tense protests the spark the death of freddie grey in police custody protests escalated into vandalism an arson went off at 1st refused to release details. died of a spinal injuries sustained in a police van eyewitnesses said excessive force had been used something the arresting officers denied all 6 were either acquitted or had their charges dropped

even after freddy grace death was ruled a homicide. charlotte north carolina september 26th keith lamont scott is killed by a black police officer police say he had a gun his wife who witnessed the shooting said it was a book. demonstrations later turned violent protesters threw bottles and rocks police responded with tear gas and gunfire the unrest lasted 3 nights. the deaths of these men are just the tip of the iceberg hundreds of black men are killed by police every year in the u.s. and african-american men are more than twice as likely to be killed by police than their white counterparts. karma.

has become the latest name on the list and yet again fury and despair of what many see as the disregard for black lives spilled onto the streets of america. amid all the criticism of president trump's handling of the confident $1000.00 pound d'amico he has been pointing the finger of blame at the world health organization last month with the trump said the u.s. was suspending funding to the w.h.o. because it had failed to do enough to combat the virus today he went a step. because they have failed to make the requested and greatly needed reforms we will be today terminating our relationship with the world health organization and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving urgent global public health needs well my next guest is a former surgeon general of the united states the country's top public health

official dr vivek murthy served under president obama and briefly in the trumpet ministration he joins us now from washington welcome to the w. can we start with your reaction to this decision by the president well it was unfortunate because well. could certainly do some things better it has done a tremendous amount to safeguard help around the world for decades and the truth is that the united states was part of helping create it up we are part of it. and when you have a problem in your family you staying you help fix it you don't cut and run and i worry that in terminating our relationship at the top of each oh we're actually making the world less safe at a time when we are still facing a critical. is it a chance that by his strident actions the president actually forces the w.h.o. in so much more urgent changes. well it is certainly

possible that he may force changes to happen in a quicker timeline but we also have to keep in mind that cutting funding in the midst of it and emic is is hindering the organization that the entire world needs at this moment to be stronger and it's not just about over 1000 keep in mind there are many other health issues that we are trying to stave off whether it is cholera or whether it is a range of other infectious diseases and and not infectious diseases that the world is struggling with and the w.h.o. has been a critical body in helping bring the world together and a unified front to address those health threats so we are not just impairing our ability to respond to the world your impairing our health and many other fronts and that is the concern it's not that resolute show couldn't do better it's that this is not the right way to go about it but you've just written a book together of the healing power of human connection a sometimes lonely world and we're here living through a period where social distancing is actually magnifying the problems of loneliness

and facing many of us with some hard choices let's just have a quick listen to what some nurses are experiencing i've had to stop being a nurse and step in for the family and sit down next to that they should hold their hand so that they don't i allow my hardest. way into. her. by writing i had a final goodbye i was on an i pod effect muffy i guess when you wrote show full pre-colonial couldn't have guessed how much worse this problem would become. that's absolutely right this book on loneliness and the power of social connection because during my years history in general traveling around the country and around the world i recognized that a loneliness was far more common and i had to recognize it reminded me of the loneliness that experience in my own life and that i saw in the lives of patients as i was practicing medicine but the other critical point is that loneliness is

also consequential that people who struggle with loneliness have a higher risk of premature death heart disease depression and anxiety even though we are in the midst of a pandemic that threatens to deepen our loneliness i actually think this is our opportunity to engineer a social revival in our lives and the lives of people around us in our communities at large and that is why i wrote this book because i believe that we can do that that there are simple steps we can take that will strengthen our connection in our day to day life and if we do that collectively we will build a stronger healthier more resilient society for us and for our children so what difference would we see if we were treated as a public health issue raavan maybe a personal psychological problem. well what we would see is number one more research point toward understanding the origins and solutions to loneliness number 2 we would see the public health system and the medical system play a more active role in identifying patients who struggle with loneliness and

connecting them to resources in the community and finally we would see a greater recognition that loneliness is not just a bad feeling that it's a critical element of our allies it impacts not just our health but also how we perform in the workplace our kids performance school and even affects our ability to dialogue with each other so when we look at the challenges facing the world whether it's polarization or poor health or productivity in the workplace it turns out strengthening social connection is an extraordinarily powerful resource that we can cultivate now. let's go back to the coronavirus that this massive challenge of the world is facing us as the 19th surgeon general of the united states you were the top mom on matters of public health that as you say you've been visiting hospitals and you seen firsthand how they are dealing with the coronavirus pandemic so given the u.s. is position as the worst affected country in the world what is your assessment of the way the pandemic is being handled that. well the united states is

certainly borne a heavy toll from this pandemic we lead the world in the number of infections and the number of deaths and that is certainly nothing to be proud of you know in the in the country there are several things that i'm proud i'm proud of the fact that people have really stepped up in many ways. to make extraordinary sacrifices on a personal and economic level in order to reduce the number of infections there with a peak number of infections we've also seen an extraordinary expression of just humanity in communities all over the country where people are stepping up to help neighbors and to deliver food to those who can't get out on their own i think we have struggled and it's a government in terms of responding you still do not have enough availability it around the country struggling to build the resources to trace contacts so that we can contain infection once it arises and finally on the communication front we've had communication that has not been optimal time to come up with the right guidance but have been mixed in our messaging from our elected leaders and i think that has

created this and 7 fortunate division in the country where safety measures like wearing masks have become a political statement and when that happens all of us suffer is that we're not going to be able to mount as effective a response as we need. you dealt with the spread of disease virus how does a compact with what's going on today. yes so i did serve at the time and we were responding to. and called it 19 is is an extraordinary and it unique phenomenon we have not seen anything like this in in a century in the world so little but a certain common principles that hold true across and i mean responses and i think those are extraordinarily important to remember now you know the 1st is that it's essential to communicate clearly and consistently with the public at a time when there's great fear information is like gold and confusion can can create extraordinary problems the 2nd is it's important to lead with science and

scientists you've got to ensure the country's hearing from its top scientific chemist and the 3rd peter resources to the people on the front lines in this case doctors nurses grocery store workers local public health leaders and those are the 3 critical areas in any pandemic you've got to respond to i think we've done a good job sometimes in the united states at other times we've struggled in these areas we've got to be more consistent for the well being of our nation and the world good talking to you thank you for joining us dr visit murphy it to be with you. the world's 1st war crimes trial are arising from the conflict in syria is taking place in the western german city of complaints the 2 defendants are i say alleged torturers who work for the secret service of syria's assad regime in his opening statement asked lawyer did not that his client or any responsibility saying that the alleged intelligence was

only following orders. watching the trial closely is fat mood hearing actually hasn't heard from has been son and 2012 when they both vanished in damascus they could be just 2 of thousands of victims they syrian secret service for one mahmoud in her apartment in the german capital berlin the opponent of the regime in syria lives here on her own in exile i have this is she this is my husband. says 2012 he's been missing disappearing in a prison run by the syrian secret service. just like her son my here. they've been mediators for the opposition and have been on their way back from outside syria when the protests against the regime in syria started. forester nair to. them and i called our son my hair after they arrived at the airport in damascus

he said we're getting into the car now and will be home soon please set the table. but 1st it was husband and song never got back home. the syrian secret services crimes are cruel these photos from inside syria in prisons were leaked in 2013 victims of torture photographed by a military policeman who managed to get them out of the country. today the photos are important evidence against assad's tortures in. europe the authorities were investigating them when they made the discovery and 2018 secret service members had allegedly come to europe from syria this guy's this refugees one of them is this man and why are the alleged head of the department and the secret service he and another suspected secret service members have been on trial in germany since april was the 1st trial ever for crimes against humanity committed by members of the assad regime when the trial started syrians opposed to the regime came together

outside the court building to the men that assert be brought to trial. assad himself denies any responsibility or wrong doing. but the evidence against the syrian regime is overwhelming. it's kept here at this secret location in western europe. william wiley used to work for the united nations investigating human rights abuses for human courts in former yugoslavia and rwanda he heads the commission for international justice and accountability and gathers evidence against assad's regime. basically. what you have in this room are materials generated by the security intelligence structures of. the military structures of syria and the party or political structures of syria at the top level and that the government.

records and files of the syrian regime clean examined and archived specially for the investigating authorities and courts in europe. wiley and other investigators are financially supported by european governments when the war in yugoslavia ended in the ninety's the international tribunal was missing many important files to prevent this from happening again the commission secured and smuggled over 800000. occupants out of the chaos of the syrian civil war. why he is convinced that it will be enough to prove the syrian leadership's responsibility for human rights abuses. caused this fatwa mamata living in exile in berlin i don't think he missed it he's got us and we're caught up in the film and to night biggest dream is to see the leadership and being brought to

justice. as him to pass out. mahmoud hopes that one day all the crimes of assad's regime will come to light. before we go news of an ancient treasure rediscovered alkie ologists and its may have been a magnificent and ancient movers ace in the middle of a vine. in the field a good looking little hole no one recession spreads a great deal of cleaning the centuries old flooring said he was thrilled at the discovery and imagining the time in the 3rd or 4th century when romans walked a moment between rooms and a massive local officials are considering the site digging out from music. well that is almost over but the conversation continues online join us on twitter and i've seen them use for the console of me out. of the.

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