ok. this is the w. news live from berlin thousands turn out in germany in support of the black lives matter move them marching in solidarity sure humbucking front 1st a day after the memorial service for george floyd whose death in police custody settles on rest across america. the news the lead negotiator sees no significant progress during the latest talks on a trade deal with britain is the u.k. prepared to leave without one. also coming up on world environment day we take

a look at the future of the platters the global covert emergency has led to crops and pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in some regions but many doubts whether the improvement is a stick. and got out as welcome to the program thousands of people here in germany have taken to the streets in solidarity with the black lives matter movement big crowds have been staging sit in demonstrations and marching through hamburg and frankfurt turned out in support of the day after an immoral service for george floyd who died last month in police custody in the us city of minneapolis his death has triggered worldwide protests against racism and police were tapped. german chancellor angela merkel has also reacted to events following the death of george floyd she

criticized president all trumps leadership style but also acknowledged that germany too has problems with racism. the murder of george floyd is horrific racism is horrific and us society is very polarized. i think the politicians should aim to you nice 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 us will move forward with peaceful protests i'm joined in the studio by a reporter. you moved from the u.s. to germany 13 years ago as a black american is your experience of racism here in germany different from the u.s. and how well it is different in terms of i've been stopped before by the police asking

me for papers and once i told them here in germany here in germany and when i told them i was an american citizen they left me alone so obviously that was a sign that other black people do experience that sort of you know racial profiling but of course in terms of the institution of racism itself you know people having trouble getting into the job market or you know housing those are things that can also affect someone like me so i do have situations where my american nationality does help protect me bought the racism likely instead of racism itself is something that i also have to deal with here and i also speak we can play the report just what i want to finish as i speak about every day racism in germany as well and i've been looking into that and that's something that can be seen in the report and that's maybe something slightly different from the united states now let's have a look at the report. this memorial to george floyd popped up last weekend. well he died of the hands of

a policeman in the u.s. his death is also being used to bring awareness to racism here in germany and across the world. it is hard to find a country without any form of racism and i experience that here as well in berlin. as the staring and of course comments and statements about my skin color. that you cannot move around the city as a black person without being aware obvious skin color on average there are $3.00 to $4.00 racist incidents reported per day in the german capital according to the berlin register for discrimination and not everyone is reporting them so there could be far more. that's why the blackhawks matter means meant has also been protesting here in berlin well europe has fewer deadly incidents involving the police some cases have stayed with me again you know with not. only

giallo burned to death in the police cell here in germany in 2005 no one was convicted for his death. in the u.k. in 2011 mark duggan was shot by a policeman who was never convicted. in france adama tower died during police custody in 2016 and no one has been found responsible for his death that's why the protests in france have been violent. people are frustrated with structural racism. hasn't really dealt with its links to slavery and colonialism here in germany several streets i named after individuals from the countries colonial period i can berlin's african quarter where even now some streets bear the names of germany's most infamous and brutal cologne new figures. do you think the protests

in the u.s. and europe doesn't change anything. wow i mean we speak about germany specifically of course we have a statement from. the referring to what happened in the u.s. and racism is horrific and of course also mentioning is a quite strong was a very strong statement but if you look at the coverage like on german media that hasn't been very strong to pointing to racism in germany they've been covering the protests in the u.s. but they haven't really said look at our own problems and how are we dealing with racism in this country and i think that is what is lacking in the discussion in germany at this point do you think that the average german on the street the well meaning average white german understands what's going on in terms of racism no they don't because they don't see racism as an institution they look at it very differently and i think it's a european problem it's not just germany apart from the u.k.

. racism is not understood as an institution like sexism is and i think people have moved past looking at sexism as you know to something that women have you know have an issue with but rather as an institution and i think we don't have that for racism in germany and i think that might take a couple of years to sort of get into people's heads. briefly if you can your thoughts about the u.s. will things improve. optimistically i'd like to say yes but it has to take a lot of talking i think that's what we can hope for. thank you very much for the very person. another case of police brutality has sparked outrage in the us this time and buffalo in the state of new york an elderly man fell to the ground and was seriously injured after he was pushed by a police officer buffalo police initially stated that the man tripped and fell to offices of been suspended without pay the governor of new york state as called the

incident absolutely disgraceful. or here in europe the latest round of bragg's that talks between the e.u. and the u.k. have ended with no significant progress according to the use top negotiator. he has accused london of failing to honor the rights of divorce agreement as the 2 sides trying to thrash out a trade deal before the end of the year he claims british officials are trying to backtrack on commitments already agreed to other british say the negotiations need to speed up on year was clearly frustrated we engaged in this negotiation under very few show of a joint political victory sion that clearly set out the terms of our future but mission this document. the document is

a very bold in all languages. including english. digital version. was negotiated with prime minister johnson inside. if you do this for us. and you remain for us the only valid reference yet round after round our british call to blow out ship could you stand them search from this common bush bunny ears because then we can now speak to barbara visible in brussels or one of the you have followed today's developments on a break just heard the news saying that the u.k. is back tracking it all areas that's quite a strong statement the how serious is this it is serious and it was quite stark you're right in that what he means was backtracking is that they don't sort of follow all the obligations they have signed for us johnson himself assigned to when

they made the was there all agreement there is this political declaration that is added to it's sort of like an edit piece of paper $1516.00 pages something like that where they sit on the principles of what they wanted to do after breaks it of how they wanted to create this new relationship but after that was signed sealed and delivered it was obviously also forgotten by bus france no he thought he could just sort of push it to the side and and sort of start afresh just made up his own make up his own rules for how he wants to deal with the european union and that is what barney really excuse him off and of course it means that now the 2 sides are sitting there so if each side dug in their trenches and they're just sort of loving little rubber grenades to the other side like it's your fault no it's your fault you should you know obstinate and you should be moving and that is not very useful at all so at the moment there is really complete stand. pretty much sounds like

all the breaks you negotiate that we've seen the past 4 years if you have followed in the past 4 years do you see a path out of this deadlock now. the only policy is political movement political intervention boris johnson will win the next 10 days supposedly next week somehow even though only provide a link a talk to slough on the line the e.u. commission president and the council chief. and they will sort of they are supposed to assess the progress that has been made no progress has been made so the question is will boris johnson then indicate that he is willing to move somehow that he wants to continue the talks and that would make sense to continue the talks because to have all these $300.00 experts trade experts on both sides sit there for weeks and weeks on end and just sort of turn around in circles and sort of pour over the same material and say we can't agree on anything it is simply nonsense that it's

politically not very effective so there has to be some movement and boris johnson that's what do you think is the one who has to sort of move 1st however as we know him as we have seen them and for in earlier breaks it negotiations he things the e.u. should blink 1st now it's the same game of chicken we've seen several times before . reporting from brussels thank you now to some of the other stories making headlines today german police are investigating if the man suspected of murdering muslims might also be linked to the disappearance of another child in germany 43 year old history of previous sex offenses including child abuse 3 year old madeleine went missing from a portuguese holiday resort in 2007. russia says it will stop the spread of a massive oil spill in northern siberia a criminal investigation is underway into the cause of the disaster which happened

when a diesel reservoir collapsed at a power station teamed up and environmental coverage might take years. united nation has designated today world environment day the global health emergency has cut pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in some regions because it cannot make it to vittie has been widely suspended but not all environmentalists are optimistic about what this could mean for the future. time for nature the tagline for this year's world environment day 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 factors pushing what scientists say is a 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 conflict 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 combined. 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 august on this pandemic and responding to it which are 5 years that we don't really have. a societies move out of lockdown the question is how will they do that for nature environmentalists will be hoping for a more sustainable step into the future. that's it for now from me and the news

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