this is t w news coming to you live from. morial services beheld in minneapolis for george floyd the black man killed by a white police officer. mourners stood in silence for nearly 9 minutes the time it took for floyd to be killed civil rights leader reverend al sharpton said protests should not let off until the whole

justice system is changed. also coming up demonstrators continue to take to the streets across the u.s. to demand an end to racism we meet a man joining rallies in washington d.c. to say enough is enough. and what do people in germany think about their government's response to the current of virus crisis and how worried are they that restrictions are being relaxed too quickly we have the results of a survey of all those and a host of all the issues plus one of germany's best rock bands celebrates 40 years in music. we report on how noisy best known for creating instruments out of scrap metal are turning.

hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us an emotional and politically focused memorial service has further energized activists and protesters in the u.s. the service was for george poor and the african-american man who died in the custody of a white police officer mourners stood in silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds the amount of time on the ground as the police officer held his knee on his neck. has sparked protests calling for an end to racism and police brutality one civil rights activist said it was important to keep fighting. what happened and of for our it happens every day in this country an exit case in any health services and

in every area of american life it's time for us to stand out in charges made and say good job nice. correspondent stuff and see months is in minneapolis and joins us now stuff on a powerful message there from reverend sharpton did his unity offer any sense of hope that george floyd's death could prove a turning point in america's effort to address please father in some races. yeah i think it actually captured the overwhelming feeling is the awareness a feeling that i just because i don't have any other and better word for it but what it is. it almost feels like there is a paradigm change hsien people feel there is a paradigm change here and that's what they're telling us they. don of course with how things work they're not looking back and. more at this in the same way they did

maybe just 8 days 10 days ago when mr flight was killed at this very place. for them it's now for work and it's a different way forward and it's it's it's with a vision and that is in is. to change america not just minneapolis not just the police department here and not just this state minnesota but the entire country and the justice system in this country and many many other things were structural racism is a daily occurrence to them. 10 days after george floyd's death what's the situation on the streets of minneapolis. minneapolis it's like in any or in most other states now the violence is pretty much gone and here in minneapolis entirely gone as far as we know it's peaceful protesting it's forwarding the causes people think they are and understand themselves as being part

of a movement now. in other states in the united states you have the pictures we all see the pictures there is the occasional run in because of a curfew break with police but compared to what it was like a who we could go this is a peaceful protest think this is furthering their cause this is being part of a movement people say and not letting up when they say no justice no peace they really mean it that president trump's response to george floyd's death and the ongoing protest often has drawn to your screed this is him could it affect his chances of reelection in november. i'm sure that this is a possibility the president's poll numbers are in the basement or and heading actually below floor ground at the moment at least that's what the latest polls soldier.

however there has to be something he said about. the president who failed to actually grass what is going on in america right now and does not exert any leadership for those people here because that's what they're saying the president is missing in action basically he's not taking damage he just said he's not showing any empathy. he does not really understand what is going on what is necessary for america to happen this is hurting in their minds him definitely for in this reelection bid and his reelection chances now having said that i don't think the president had many friends he had before anyhow but he definitely didn't make any year with being the law and order of law and order president john thank you very much that was tough on simmons there in minneapolis. well protesters have taken to the streets of many cities across the united states and

mention the ws alexander phenomena has been following one man who has attended rallies in washington d.c. every day to demand justice and an end police follow. he's angry but he hasn't lost hope taking to the streets every day kamau hall she's the activist at the heart of the protest in washington. 2 riding his bike across the city come out doesn't recognize his hometown now dominated by a happy police and military presence for him it doesn't feel safe he's had many guns pointed at him he says from people at bat they will come up. and so in a way to a question like let me see you. with a choir. let me see your hand.

but then they continue to be hostile and aggressive and. that's what it means to be black in america he tells me 52 years after the killing. of king jr than this seems to be a watershed moment for the u.s. but what makes this moment so dangerous is the man in the white house come out says . he wants a war because if you can start a civil war. so he wants this war he wants it because. he really wants everyone to act completely out of control so he can have a purpose for his actions. in a city center there are marching again kamau as an electrical contractor but since the pandemic started there's been no work for him he tells me that together with his friends he's devoted all his time to peaceful protests they don't support the looting and burning but i understand that many young people are bored and angry and

use violence to get the us or a tease attention to do what they do you do your piece with thing you do you're not recent things because either way. the attraction. just. a few blocks from the white house more and more federal forces are right many people here are angry seeing the national guard being deployed against them exchange cats need a. good i'll go to a lot of anger i'm sad because you know you look at these people ways people like you want to be considered human you so do you treat other humans as it were animals or some so i just got really upset it's not full some protesters the feeling the police could use tear gas and rubber bullets against them again but canelo and his friends stay regardless of what might happen i think that patience is the best portion for us to. stay afloat to continue this long term thing because you know

it's going to take a long time for this actually be corrected. he says he's never felt so energized and exhausted at the same time justice for george floyd that's what he wants and the real change in america. here in germany chancellor angela merkel has been reacting to the death of george floyd and its aftermath she criticized president all tribes leadership style but she also acknowledged that germany has its own problems with racism. the murder of george floyd his horrific racism is horrific and us society is very polarized. i think the politicians should aim to you nice and to reconcile i think that president trump style of politics is very controversial that's clear racism has always existed but unfortunately it exists here in germany too we should put our

own house in order and hope that enough people in the u.s. will move forward with peaceful protests. now some other stories making news around the world today australian prime minister scott morrison has warned protesters not to attend rallies over the death of george floyd protests have already taken place in several cities and more are planned for the weekend but already say the wrist spreading the coronavirus. russia has intensified efforts to clean up a major fuel spill in northern siberia environmentalist say it's the worst such incident in the arctic and the ecosystem will need at least a decade to fully recover president by the mere putin has ordered a state of emergency. now the one of the most famous german rock in stoughton did know about and took the music world by storm 40 years ago their name means collapsing new buildings and it might sound like destruction but i

still didn't know about and are seen as one of germany's most innovative groups along with coffee back and their sound has mellowed and become more melodic over the years some say their latest album sounds like urban poetry. or all in all it's the title and i'm sure it's annoyed about this latest album it's an ode to their hometown berlin all of the lyrics were written by blix a man who read. it's much more immediate i have seen direct but it's much more immediate. i simply noticed that i no longer need to keep my distance.

i'm untouchable anyway that's the difference now i can make myself visible since i'm untouchable anyway. he himself is music history blix a bar gallant singer and guitarist of irish gets annoyed boughton the band was formed in the 1980 s. . they were anarchic sound experimenter's no junkyard was safe from them the berliners conquer the world with their new brutal the sound. wasn't just the lead singer of the noise about him he also played with nick cave and the bad seeds for 20 years until 2003. since then he's been concentrating on i just it's an annoying boughton and making sound experiments. the band would love to play in the junkyards like in the old days but they're no longer able to. do that.

when we did indeed call and find a junkyard near the polish border that agreed to it on the phone. once and then we drove there in a rented car to transport what we might find there. and they only let us go as far as their garbage dump garbage dump or. the musicians still find creative space without access to junkyards and one of their songs lots of arguments daughter even plays among a kind of classical instrument that's lined trombone. was. usually i'm very happy. i've always been happy when we've released something but this time i'm fortunate. 40 years of i'm sure it's an annoying boughton there's no reason why the band's history shouldn't continue to be written and many good reasons to keep it out. since.

the un has designated today world environment day as part of efforts to encourage awareness of global heating and the need to stop climate change the credible as pandemic has led to a huge reduction in pollution and greenhouse gases in some regions as economic activity is suspended to prevent the spread of disease but not all environmentalist are optimistic about what this could mean for the future of our planet. type in nature the tagline for this year's wild environment the theme biodiversity more than 500 species have gone extinct in the last 100 years another 500 are on the brink human driven climate change is one of the fact is pushing what scientists say is the 6th mass extinction. industrial production and air travel are some of the main causes of the c

o 2 emissions causing global heating but the coronavirus crisis has largely brought them to a halt the biggest drops in global emissions so far came as a result of conflicts and 3 global recessions but some projections say the current crisis could lead to the biggest ever drop in emissions more than all these previous reductions combines. still some experts say it's not enough i think there is a short term gain you know like we're seeing c o 2 reductions right while but we need really a massive global effort to solve the climate crisis and right now we are going to spend the next 5 years you know this pandemic and responding to it which are 5 years that we don't really have. the question is how will they do that for nature environmentalists will be hoping for a more sustainable step into the future. more on this front joined by neil king

from v.w. environment he's host of the podcast on the green fence and the all those the drop in c o 2 emissions we're seeing during this pandemic give us any reason to hope that we might be getting a grip on climate change. well 1st of all i think it's very important that we make a distinction between c o 2 emissions and c o 2 concentrations that's the level of c o 2 in the air because even if we have you know record drop in emissions this year the international energy agency is predicting 8 percent for the overall year that's about 2600000000 tons that's a huge drop it doesn't mean that the levels stop growing in fact experts say we would have to cut human made c o 2 emissions by 50 percent if we wanted to initiate a trend it's a bit like a ball stop you know shoot off the top running both up the levels but still rise the only way to actually turn things around is to switch off the top a switch off the top on you that's

a carbon neutral economy and society will get us where we need to be. with countries desperate to get their economies going after this corona virus pandemic is there a danger that if i think climate change will be off the agenda for years to come. well there certainly is that risk because the economic crisis we're facing the global recession that we're in for millions of jobs at stake also the pandemic these are very imminent threats far more concrete and tangible to many people than climate change but climate change let's not forget is by far the greater threat is an existential threat for mankind so we have to get it on the agenda and i think actually we have a window of opportunity because we have leverage with the bailouts you know all these battles that have drawn up to prop up the system prop up companies we should use this opportunity to actually extract concessions from the companies who tap into this money it's taxpayers' money it's your money it's my money and we should get binding commitments that puts them on

a more sustainable track so there might be some potential there but the lockdown has already radically changed human behavior patterns do you think these changes could have been in positive implications for the environment. well you know we've seen a lot of change these past months with the locked unfortunately i'm afraid that most of them probably won't be last thing the lot of people out there who want to get back to the old status quo rather sooner than later but there's one aspect regarding mobility well i think we have a chance to have an impact on the environment and that is home office we found quite a few civility study undertaken in these past few months you know with a lot we've managed to swing it even under very adverse conditions even with homeschooling we've pulled off a modest in many sectors and if you think about it that transport accounts for about 30 percent of all c o 2 emissions in the e.u. and 3 quarters of that is down to road traffic so if we could say commuters off the roads by giving them more home office possibilities that could actually make a huge dent in those c

o 2 emissions and it would also enhance work life balance for employees and happy employees good employees i think if we made them off is the new normal rather than the exception that would be a great takeaway from this crisis neal thank you so much that was neil king there from our environmental desk thank you. luxury british carmaker bentley is expected to announce around $1000.00 job cuts today as the crowd of virus plagues struggling car sales is the latest in a raft of bad news for the global industry but for the 800000 workers in britain's car sector and economic recession combined with the looming prospect of a no deal brags it has created the ultimate horror scenario. production at press mark is only slowly starting again normally 90 people wacky in the heart of england supplying steel parts for the car industry. coronas hit the company hard

they have very few new orders the last thing they need is a hard bread sit with no trade deal at the end of the year that's going to be. very difficult especially in a market that's been depressed as well so it's taken a couple hit it's going to be the most challenging time in my career ever the u.k. current history is facing its biggest crisis ever due to the virus. luxury carmaker mclaren had to layoff a quarter of its workforce and nodia bragg's it with the e.u. would mean that cost as well as components would be hit with a 10 percent tariff making u.k. cost very expensive to sell on the continent its main export market if there was a no trade deal bricks at the end of the year there would be a hit to exports and therefore a hit to production in the u.k. and we would see tens of thousands of job losses there's a very real question mark about whether some plants would actually close and in the

longer term car companies my dream located to the continent if they get investment decisions then go again to the u.k. over the next few years a possible loss of output of the order of another half a 1000000 cars and you know that would mean much of the u.k. mass industry effectively being wiped out at the supplier press market there there the whole thing that the u.k. and the e.u. will agree to extend the so-called transition period to give more time to reach a deal i agreed with a transition period but if that's been hard surely we should extend that so we've still got the same amount of time this is certain nobody's fault they were in this position so we should logically move up back so we can still have that transition period because the transition pair. the minute is actually no effect because now he's doing his work but for now the government is not listening to its manufacturers they want the u.k. to be completely independent as soon as possible even though it might mean leaving

without a trace. to pile their piece for us joins us now from london good to see you get tell us where things stand now in those brags that negotiations is a no deal scenario likely. well the feeling here in london is that the u.k. will of course like a trade deal with its closest partners but not at all costs for the u.k. really the overarching aim is to be cut loose from the european union that they want to be flexible to the european union would like to have some sort of framework the u.k. wants to have more like smaller deals they also want to be bound by any european courts they want to be able to strike their own trade deals freely for example with the u.s. so they want to be as flexible as possible and that for them at the moment seems to be the priority over a trade deal with the european union so the government is seems to be after

a clean cut so to speak what are the british people make of all this. the british people really had so much they had so much of bags of that a lot of them really are disengaging now is my feeling covert is really taking over this is. and and brags it really is not as important as it used to be is not very easy to engage people actually with the subject but with but we have fun so people in london we have spoken to them and we're going to play what they have to say no. we should have left years ago yeah the euro is falling apart at the moment so. anyway we survived and we were surviving so. it's our is going to be a few more for a follow up so i think as well you know where i'll probably germany next but i think it's really important i think we really should have the day in the 1st place

so that he can do is take the time and make a shake it don't need to be more time to come to new agreement and if it is down to me i wouldn't leave anyway it's really important that they come to an agreement as friend of ours is for everything on hold and they need an agreement for the future to get the ball rolling again i think it's gone on for far too long already has just been breaks it and breaks it for years and i think it just needs to be done. just so we know what the new normal will be that's all it's dragging on is make everyone's tired of it everyone signal we don't know what's happening it be nice to know when he's done what the new situation will be. bigger the u.k. is obviously busy dealing with the coronavirus pandemic like everyone else but how is that affecting the government's approach to negotiating with the. well the coronavirus already has brought the u.k.

the biggest economic downturn africa and if that is done followed by a no trade deal with the european union to its closest economic partner where most of the trade is being done with that would be another as you know that the gentleman the cotton has reported and other where me another huge hit however it could be that the thinking in the british government is and this is the impression that people are getting that it might be a good time to bury bad news so a new deal breaks it at the end of the here would mean of course huge friction that the border would mean tarots it would mean another downturn however for the u.k. government it could be that the longer aim this flexibility and new trade shows that they want to strike and being an independent nation that they continue to say that this is more important then however if they decide this is the case there will

be a political fallout with the european union the question is will the u.k. government want to risk a fallout on that magnitude and how and whether they can and want to mitigate that . figure thank you very much that was the w.'s very good lunch in london. you're watching news from a lender just remember you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that's at w dot com i'm terry marshall thanks for watching. lots

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