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need to spot there's something wrong with. the cleaners social media's shadow industry starts junee on g.w. . this is deja vu news live from berlin another night of protests and on rust in the united states. demonstrations and widespread looting and arson in a number of american cities all in the death of george floyd in police custody. turmoil in minneapolis as a truck driver drives through
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a crowd of protesters wasn't deliberate the reporter was there as it happened amazingly no one appears of them seriously injured. and one of the world's strictest corona lockdowns is east as south africa attempts to revive a battered economy. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us today another night of unrest in the u.s. was protests in dozens of cities out to the death of a black man in police custody the national guard has been deployed in a number of states curfews were extended in major cities as police struggle to contain the situation. and there's been a memorial for george floyd in minneapolis where he died a week ago. earlier in that city a truck drove through
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a crowd of protesters on a highway overpass miraculously it appears only one person was slightly injured. the truck appeared to barrel into a large crowd of protesters in minneapolis the tanker headed north on interstate 35 west blaring its horn before coming to a halt. the highway was packed with demonstrators who then swarmed the truck and trying to get at the driver. police use tear gas to disperse the crowd that had surrounded the truck. correspondent stefan seaman's was reporting from the scene eyewitnesses saw one woman injured there in a peaceful protests on the bridge then a similar came through going like 40 or 50 miles an hour try to run us off to caucasian man blown away or going to hit a girl stop because all of our people jumped on to try to rip him out trying to get
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our he kept going we returned our yes so i reversed and almost hit somebody there are people jumped on him i mean it's instinct so he got through so you say he hit one person only and nobody else was hurt no one person one person only that's amazing how is that possible everybody will start moving everybody starts scatter and they're good i got her we had one we only had one vehicle in a whole day and we put her in a truck and we drove her straight to the hospital. officials say the driver was treated in hospital for injuries he suffered when he was pulled from the camp he's now in custody the minnesota state patrol says the action appeared deliberate. let's go straight to minneapolis now we're on the scene with stefan seaman's who was there when that happened stefan there was only apparently one injury we understand the driver is now in police custody. he is in police custody and actually hennepin county authorities just released his name and also
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a mug shot. of the driver he is charged as you pointed out and in custody and the charge is assault and why only assault because like healy absolutely lucky america i think nobody or at least only one woman was hurt and she is expected to recover that was at the time absolutely not evident and looked really really really really bad from our vantage point from anybody else who was of course in the crowd and we rushed to the scene. people stuart hundreds of people came towards us running breaking down sobbing crying shaking and that was a horrible horrible scene no doubt thank goodness. only one person injured that is america that could have been rude gone really really really wrong stuff on the skin on night 6 of unrest and protests in the u.s.
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can you give us an overview of the situation nationally has the protesting and having. no it's the the protests all over the country are increasing not only in number but also in intensity in in violence too i have to say that people all across the country took their cue from ground 0 and right here behind me this is ground 0 this is where george floyd died this is. where people here in minneapolis have put this memorial people all over the country the united states took you from this and there is bottomless rage bottomless rage and anger in in the african-american community and beyond about police brutality and systemic racism in the united states now america is looking for leadership at this hour as it faces its worst civil unrest in generations
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is there any word as to when president trump might be addressing the nation. i'm aware that there is a rumor that he might consider the possibility of addressing the nation in his speech and i can repeat this have heard the rumor that he might be considering addressing the nation. and that is for the people behind me saying everything and not that he is actually very popular with the protesters and the population behind me they don't believe anything coming out of the mouth of the president of the united states. and they don't expect anything either no leadership no calming words no leadership vision for the future how to heal this country this country is say many that's not me this is
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a smarter people than me saying this this country needs a chalet leadership to heal. but. at least people here at least people here definitely think that the president is not the person who is going to deliver that stefan thanks so much for that from the hapless. let's get you briefed down some of the other stories making the news this hour tropical storm amanda has battered el salvador killing at least 14 people there the government has declared a state of emergency after heavy rains and powerful winds triggered flash flooding landslides cut off power left hundreds of people homeless the 1st storm of the pacific season also drenched neighboring. a gunman has killed at least 25 people at a market in eastern brook enough aso a similar attack friday claimed 15 lives the country has been battling job as terrorists. demonstrations for and against president
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high airballs in r.-o. have been rocking brazil police kept the 2 sides apart in rio de janeiro for right leader has angered critics by keeping brazil open despite an increase in corona virus infections. india is getting back to business with the easing of coronavirus restrictions it's the 1st step in a 3 phase plan to restart economic activities outside places where the virus is concentrated relaxation comes despite a spike in new infractions are risk areas remain in lockdown. restrictions are also being partially lifted today inside a country with one of the world's strictest law regimes as south africa moves to revive its economy people are now allowed outside for work worship exercise and shopping the country's mines and factories are also set to resume operating at full
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capacity a plan to reopen schools though today has been delayed after opposition from teachers unions and parents. are not equipped to keep staff and students safe. adrian creations standing by for us in front of the berg bill primary school in cape town. people are protesting at the school where you are today why is that. was mainly because of the confusion caused by the ministry of education here is the 2nd time that they have announced a date for the schools to resume and the 2nd time on a very short notice they decided to push it back once again for further week until schools will resume here in south africa i would say south africans are quite divided about it you have one part of the population that says well good we really have to get back to business our kids have to go back to school and on the other hand you have people like the ones behind me who are protesting we're saying it's waste too early to send our kids back to school our schools are not yet ready and
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they don't have enough protective equipment you have people here with posters saying keep our kids safe keep our teachers safe and they insist that it must wait longer until schools can restart because one of the points they're raising is also winter is starting in south africa and that is likely one of the factors that might bring the number of cases cases up schools are closed can you give us a picture of what parts of the economy are opening up today. so south africa introduced a lockdown and 5 stages number 5 was the strictest one we've seen for 5 weeks where it was basically a total lockdown now we're going to stage 3 that means most businesses are allowed to open again millions of south africans will return to work again a big surprise here was that the president also and that religious gatherings are also allowed again up to 50 people it was a shock to many here because it was religious gatherings in the 1st place that
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helped to spread the virus in the initial face and but some restrictions obviously still remain facemask us them and day to re i just took it off for this interview he also has a sale of cigarettes for example remains prohibited on the other hand they allowed the sale of alcohol so a lot of people who haven't been able to purchase a drink for 2 months will be quite happy from today experts are expecting about 1000000 coated 1000 infections in south africa before the end of the year is the country prepared for ease restrictions on who these conditions so i mean the lock down here was introduced to get the health sector ready and a lot has been happening since then and more than 13000000 people were screened south africa it's more than 700000. and there's a lot of field hospitals popping up throughout the country because the number is certainly going up the president says we will see an exponential growth of coronavirus cases right now we see about 33000 cases here but this is likely to go
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up very fast in the next month and as you said the worst case scenario we will see 1000000 infected people here and i.c.u. capacities are still not there yet so there are 3500 beds at the moment and up to 335000 beds will be needed a.j. and thanks so much for that from cape town. international mining group rio tinto has apologized for destroying caves thought to be hollowed out 46000 years ago and sacred to indigenous australians the shelters of the remote gorge seen here in 2013 bore signs of human occupation dating back to at least the last ice age but last week they were legally blown up as part of rio tinto plans to expand in ireland where project demolition sparked a renewed national debate on protecting indigenous herds cites the artist known simply as cristo has died at the age of 84 he became
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internationally famous for his massive work you might recall them wrapping up buildings and landmarks and fabric. this piece of arts made christo a star in germany the it was $995.00 and together with his wife shawn kloet he covered germany's parliament building the right stock with 100000 square meters of class. with officials for more than 20 years to get permission for the project that process often spout furious debates down me to build this fabric will cover the building and it was the way. to get far consider the danger is this could damage the trust of many citizens in the stature of our democratic history and culture shock. christer i was born in a provincial beaucaire in textile city his father a chemicals manufacturer recognised his son's talent early in life and sent him for drawing lessons he studied at the fine arts academy in the capital sofia in 1956 he
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fled eastern europe 1st going to vienna and then paris to find his own artistic direction he began rapping cans and bottles and in 1968 became known to the wider german public with an 85 metre high tower filled with air the documenter arctic submission in castle crystal always financed his project himself refusing to be influenced by sponsors. coming from former communist countries i will never never know something for some reason i wouldn't call it things because i like to do it i have in stoppable urge to do this project cristo lights the spectacular he hung a giant orange curtain across the valley in colorado to give a new appreciation of the landscape the scale of his projects was often huge he put up a 40 kilometer long night on fence in california and surrounded entire islands with
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fabric off the coast of miami another aspect of his work was stacking barrels like with his installation the wall in germany's oberhausen a mosaic built from $13000.00 barrels christo had wanted to cover in new york skyscraper one train that will now go unfulfilled. that's also made today sumi will be joining you again at the top of the hour for the entire news team that's a big. part of our meal and i'm looking for the 2nd season of only. the planet on the brink of disaster week as long in-depth interviews with experts that one question has to change to the only reason.

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