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this is the w. news live from berlin large crowds take to the streets for another day of demonstrations over the death of george floyd and u.s. embassies around europe and beyond where the focus of marches for justice protesters gathered outside the embassy in london calling for an end to racism and police brutality in the u.s. and the. and the anti racism protests have also reached the bundesliga with football showing their solidarity dropping to one thing in this weekend's much.
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as welcome to the program thousands protested against racial injustice outside the u.s. embassy in london on sunday for a 2nd straight day of demonstrations for testers here in in the capital as well as in many other british cities been taking to the streets following the killing of george floyd a black american man who was killed by a white police officer in minneapolis on may 25 he marches in london emphasized that they were protesting against racism not only in the united states but also around the world. earlier our correspondent in brussels the scene of another major anti-racism demonstration in europe tara szell sent us this is. many thousands of people turned out here in brussels today people of all races all it's in a city it's all colors all ages many people carried signs saying i can't breathe
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the dying words of george floyd in the united states there were children carrying signs saying i want to grow up in a world without racism activists hope that the broad support shown by the city of brussels and by the citizens of all communities may just be enough pressure to address the issues that they believe have to change that there is an issue of police brutality in belgium but the small protests that come for example after the killing of a 19 year old man in april in a police chase certainly have not shown the very broad turnout of this march here today it remains to be seen whether authorities will feel the pressure of this very large turnout whether they will sit down with activists and address the things they need they say need to be changed and how soon. across the recording protesters also gathered in washington d.c. among other u.s. cities on saturday to mobilize against racism and police brutality tens of
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thousands braved the holcim a day to call for reform. the message is clear. in their thousands they converged on downtown washington d.c. . local officials have projected over 100000 people will attend. the heat and humidity are no deterrent. everyone is not racist literally. by. the law. they're old outdated a dish people understand. it's not enough to be angry you have to vote you have to translate that into action you need to be a consequence for that action and they need to be taught that it will happen no more enough either no. while demanding action against police brutality is at the forefront of saturday's peaceful demonstrations these protests are also
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highlighting a long standing problem of what many call systemic racism and inequality in the united states topics that will likely become central to the presidential battle for the white house in november. as for handed over your correspondent stephanie. rather from washington stephanie how is president trump going to lead the country given what has happened in the last 2 weeks. very good question there. i don't think anybody. across the political spectrum actually have to say even republicans even former cabinet. members of the trumpet ministration think that there's any leadership coming from the president at the moment and during the last 2 weeks the latest example is former secretary of state and former chief. joint chief of staff colin powell saying that the president basically drifted away
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from the constitution then is a strong statement it comes just days after former defense secretary james mattis said that the president has no foundation in the constitution. john kelly former chief of staff basically supporting mr madison in this assessment so i think what's missing here for many many people former administration members politicians democrats anyway but also even republicans and for the people here in washington and everywhere else is that this straw man added to this law in order president. the president tries to portray or tries to inject inject into what's going on in america it's not really working not at all nobody sees any leadership here. to war it's what is really happening in this country and what needs to happen many say in this country and this is dialogue dialogue and real change against systemic racism in this country. in the light of
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that assessment that there's no real leadership right now will put protesters be able to maintain the momentum of this protest movement in the u.s. maybe leading up also to the president in the presidential elections later this year. that's there's a key question in a many levels actually but to keep this fairly simple i think for the next 2 days until george floyd will be actually burry it on. tuesday used in texas this will be going on there will have protest marches peacefully i think across the country and they will keep up the momentum protesting or making their voices heard after that i definitely think that the that people the african-american community nationwide here considers this to be a movement now and there's a lot of other minorities and white people of course to. support this so i
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think and say i'm protected if they can get it if they can find a way to organize themselves really really good and they can actually bring this up to the to the november elections presidential elections and i think the democratic party will have an interest to help that happen to help this movement to organize. in washington thank you. multiple protests getting underway in brazil against president balls and narrow and his government's response to the coronavirus pandemic many in the country are critical as hundley of the coronavirus crisis and accuse him of opening up the economy to some of the protests come off the widespread demonstrations in recent days across the country against racism and the killing of black people in poor suburbs. goes straight to sao paulo in brazil where our correspondent is standing by and see government protests are being held nationwide in brazil today what do protesters
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blame president both scenarios for. the people here are movement against racism and pressures and so they are fighting for democrats democratic values and democracy as a whole because they see them problems by 14 hours here in the recent year was threatening the supreme court and the parliament as a whole so this is 18th of the protests here another one are the corona policy over here recently downplayed the risk of cope with 19 several times. speaking about the corona virus crisis and. action to that now the brazilian government has stopped publishing a running total of coronavirus deaths and infections why did they do that. it's not sure it was an hour on the long term wants to really not publish at all the death toll but what he's doing he tries to and to see if the way off
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counting was correct in the last weeks and months during the pandemic crisis so critics say he might be able in future to manipulate the numbers in order to get to go forward with brazil because his main aim is to restart the economy in brazil and not to protect. on the face of it these these protests were about other issues but this whole weekend has been dominated by a world by black lives matter rallies and has george floyd's death influence the protests in brazil in any way. is definitely influencing it i can see here behind me many shirts with a black live matter more troll so people are aware of what happened in the united states and they have similar problems over the population in the shanty towns of brazil is suffering recently
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a police operation in rio de janeiro caused the killing of a child during such an operation in isolation times of coronaviruses. this is of course hard critics and the child was black as most of the residents of the shanty towns of the failed us so the black population here brazil have has the same problems as in the united states so there have common aims and they are also fighting for equality and for equal rights for all of the brazilian citizens. reporting from sao paulo thank you. thank you. to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today people in tripoli celebrated the withdrawal of forces loyal to libyan strongman khalifa haftar from the city of talk on trolls much of the war torn country but was pushed out of tripoli by the un recognized government the jenae jenae have been making
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some progress in recent weeks and rejected a ceasefire proposed by half tossed back egypt one day. us president donald trump has ordered the national guard to withdraw from washington the move comes after several days of sustained peaceful protests in the city against police brutality president trying to avoid federal forces to the capital city nearly. a week ago. there's been a surge in covert 900 fatalities in mexico the death toll now topping 13000 instructions were eased on june 1st but health officials said many deaths have happened weeks ago and have now been reclassified they speak to see a doctor if they show symptoms. it's some football news now in the 2nd place cyber was a dog $100.00 hands i believe death 1st defeat since the restarts greats teamwork after the break led to the game's only goal the victory was enough to bring doc on
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plane 7 points off the league latest. no justice no peace grit the shirt of dog means jaden sanchez to kick off dog men and head to berlin kneel before the action started to support the global black lives matter movement sandstone knitted his 1st career hat trick last time out and was looking to continue that run dortmund got it started in the 2nd half and it started with satchel a pastor you've been brought to set up every shot from point blank range just shy of the hour mark. every john 2nd goal for don't me and for jane sand show the previous system in john the man of the match finished it off. because. it was a big 3 points today a really important when we knew before the match how our rivals got on which made it all the more important to get the 3 points and we did that. when the middest
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chuffed. to berlin's love india has never won endorsement one nail the final and back to back wins for the black in yellow. time now to get you caught up with all of the bonus reaction so far this weekend only on berlin hosted shock on sunday in a match that ended even but women lost at home to both spoke earlier in the day on saturday leaders by munich one in liver whose and leipsic blew 2 points against probable on those struck 1st when chelsea banti more than a played provide of a partnership to put the bulls ahead early just before the break like 6 or red of the diode open economy picked up his 2nd yellow card after this fall in an extra man on the pitch didn't benefit probable until the 92nd minute that's when christian story was there to find the net and make the final score 11.
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from ford were defeated at home by a mind still sort of drew with hoffenheim dog want to hold on to 2nd place with their win against bellini on friday fribourg edged 10 men past sunday's final encounter. cologne is now on the way. 2 mixed martial arts now where star comic gregor has announced his retirement from fighting for 3rd time islands mcgregor has won u.f.c. championships in 2 different weight classes it previously said he was quitting the sport in 2016 under 2019 but both retirement was short lived announcing his latest retirement on twitter thank fans for amazing memories and promise to buy his mother her dream home right guys also tried his hand as boxing losing to america's floyd merryweather mayweather all in 22.
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