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she's. only $0.03. this is. in the u.s. the last chance for the public to bid farewell to george for the 1st of what is expected to be thousands of people are filing by the casket of the african-american who's in police custody sparked protests around the world we'll get the latest from houston texas also coming up tonight forced to betray themselves. reveals that we
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muslims held in chinese detention camps can only go free if they admit that practicing their religion is a. former gang distributing food to people who. looks at whether this good gangster is as innocent as he seems. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and our viewers all around the world welcome we begin tonight in houston texas where thousands are lining up to pay their final respects to george floyd he is the african american who died in police custody 2 weeks ago in minneapolis his death has sparked global protests a sea. public viewing of the casket is now taking place at the fountain of praise
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church in houston texas houston is where floyd was raised and where he lived before moving to minneapolis several years ago the funeral service will be held in private on tuesday. and. he is at the fountain of praise church in houston texas good afternoon to you all over she is the city where george floyd grew up it's the city where he's going to say a final goodbye the people there are they mourning him as one of their own. well it looks like it brant simply if you look at the amount of people that are attending today's public viewing here at the fountain of praise church the lines of very long thousands are expected to throughout the day here there's a lot of traffic jam in the surrounding area and you know people are waiting to get
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in side of the church where the body of george floyd is laid out people want to bid farewell and pay their final respects to them of course and not only the embers of the black community by the way also white people. who are supporting the black lives matter movement as we've seen also in other countries not only in the united states in recent days and weeks now. of course the atmosphere is a sad one but there's also some optimism but let's just listen in because i have the chance to speak to some of the people attending today's public viewing. well this is an important time in our world and i feel bad it is necessary for me to be here i'm born as a human being for the human race and then being an african-american man it is i wouldn't miss this for the world a man came from nowhere no one would have never known him no education i mean he's
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been to high school in some college but he's the man who just a simple made and he rose from back to today. which is often the guide and our there's a big if you know night lie if they get the right to remain in his various right and we have the honor if he's down here in the city to lay this man to rat in power white people have the luxury of assuming the police are good and assuming the police are on their side but the reality is is that black people don't have that luxury in america. an emotional day for the people in the public but there is also a political dimension to all of this presidential hopeful joe biden we understand he is traveling to houston today why. that's right in the political dimension of brand starts with the approval ratings of president trump going down of all he handled the pandemic over how he handled
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the protest and the riots year in the united states following the death of george floyd and at the same time joe biden's approval ratings going up so now he is trying to support the black community by coming here by visiting the family members of george floyd giving them his sympathies so let's also not forget joe biden is a respected person in the black community was the vice president of america's 1st black president barack obama and again we are in the middle of the election campaign so he certainly also trying to capitalize on that all right he wus oversell there in houston texas for this final public memorial service for george ford all over thank you. will a judge in minneapolis has sent bill to one rather point $25000000.00 for the former police officer who's being charged with 2nd degree murder in george floyd's death now that's after dairy children you see him right there made his 1st court appearance today showbiz lawyers accepted the bail terms which included no contact
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with floyd's family in no working in a law enforcement capacity not leaving minnesota and he has to surrender all fire or. fire for more on this let's take the story to washington d.c. our correspondent on simons is standing by good afternoon to you stefan so what is at stake in this trial for this former policeman who was charged with 2nd degree murder. everything and nothing and let me explain everything because the everton american community in minneapolis pacifically had asked for and was adamant about a strong charge against their self and not a 3rd to agree more about now a 2nd degree murder charge and that was very very important for people in minneapolis who had a very strong opinion about the police of course they and the justice system is
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being corrupt and. unequal to them to the african-american community in minneapolis so yes this is really really important that this pretrial hearing happened and even if mr sherman was only via video link in the in the court room there was a sigh of relief so to speak going through the community that this is now actually really happening the bail is interesting $1000000.00 and all the restrictions you're just saying let's not forget the man is under suicide watch 24 hours 7 days a week because. authorities think he's actually in danger of taking his own life or harming himself given the situation of bail and giving up all his weapons no contact to the ford family of course all this. makes sense to to have those restriction with the bail very important day for the african-american unity in minneapolis be also it doesn't matter really because the movement is very way way
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way bigger right now all across the united states you know disrespect to mr floyd and what will happen and to what happened to him that's true but we have heard no justice no peace it's been one of the main slogans of the current protests you know some would say it's a promise also some would say it's a threat can this trial can it deliver the sort of justice that is being demanded. yes in terms of being a 1st step a tiny step no if you look at the whole picture from a broader perspective no because african-americans in this country here are say this protest triggered by what happened to. mr fort by the needs of mr shaw the policeman triggered something it triggered an outpouring of bottomless rage and anger against injustice is all over the country structural
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systemic racism in institutions and society in america justice system health system police is that or is that for us all that is the bigger thrust the whole movement has now and people say this is a movement now and with that the whole thing blows up to something really really big here in the united states and a lot of people are looking for change and reform this is not about just one policeman anymore it's about reforming policing as a whole the city of minneapolis the city council has voted to dismantle the police force there i want to take a listen to what lisa bender the minneapolis city council president had to say our commitment is to end our city's toxic relationship to be outlets to police departments to ngs policing as we know it. was done for public safety that actually. had to end policing as we know
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it. what does that mean are we talking about minneapolis a metropolitan area of about 4000000 people devoid of any policing. no that's not what it means nobody suggested to abolish police to get rid of the police department good of policing communities i think everybody agrees even in minneapolis and even the city council members agrees that policing in society is important and is a core foundation of how society works not just in america not just in minot minneapolis everywhere in the world but what those the council members in the city of minneapolis recognizes that the police department in minneapolis specifically had a longstanding over decades and grave miserable miserable relationship with its own community and specifically with the african-american community and that just
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a reform of a now where another long charcoal chokeholds anymore and now a police officer has to actually intervene if he sees an officer fellow officer doing something wrong that's just not enough so dismantling in this case is i think and i say i think because they're not really clear about the the actual measures they want to take but it will all that's at least the estimates and the take myself and of course of lots of experts they will take measures to rebuild this police department in their relationship in their relationship to the community and get better policing for the community so nobody has to be afraid specifically no african-american has to be afraid to go to the to the store to get a gallon of milk and being arrested on the spot or even die we have to say that minneapolis might be the 1st municipality that has dismantled its police force it has been done before to fund simons in our washington bureau thank you.
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here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world a germany's defense minister says that the u.s. government's reported plans to cut the number of its troops here in germany by about a 3rd could weaken the nato alliance on a great color and said she's yet to be informed of the move which would see the number of u.s. troops stationed here drop from some 34000 to no more than 25000 in the united states areas outside new orleans are under water after tropical storm cristobal crashed ashore the storm made landfall over the weekend causing flooding in property damage in other states it was downgraded to a tropical depression this monday. hundreds of palestinians have rallied in the west bank city of ramallah to protest the israeli government's plan to end exports of the occupied territory the plan would leave about
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a 3rd of the west bank under permanent israeli control while granting palestinians further autonomy in the rest of the territory. when else to a d w exclusive investigation china's treatment of up to a 1000000 people detained in what it calls reeducation camps in. the remote region in china's far north west is off limits to international journalists muslim leaders who make up most of the region's people have long faced repression by chinese authorities and bad includes lengthy prison sentences they don't use investigative team has found that many imprisoned inside those camps have been forced to choose from a list of crimes that they did not commit and then sentenced in sham trials reporters have spoken with people who escaped from china's network of repression in . return how many freedoms there are your money says 21st that
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they can interrogate you at any time even at night when you're asleep so the women i was with ended up there because they had want to have cravings so much trouble that brought there wasn't a single criminal among that i. that's the voice of a woman who spent almost a year inside a reeducation camp in china with keeping identity a secret in order to protect have family and singe on a remote region in northwest china. she is home to the week is a predominantly muslim and me 3. decades of state sponsored discrimination against them has stepped into discontent in times of violence including riots terror attack . in response china has cracked down and we go and built up a close knit surveillance system here 47 prisoners or than a 1000000 people in internment camps across ginger the chinese government claims
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the camps were set up to fight extremism and provide readers with the k. tional skills but detainees and documents contradict that narrative rather detainees are targeted based on little more than their culture and religion and are forced to undergo a draconian and often brutal brainwashing program. and now we've on earth even more chilling evidence of china's for oppression of leaders we talked to former detainees who managed to escape china's last network of reeducation camps. one day they were handed a list of alleged crimes. but it was one page of paper we had to choose one item. said wearing a headscarf playing owning a qur'an or phoning all contacts in people abroad they threatened us you will stay
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here until you pay the crime so i signed the paper and put my finger print. a few days after the woman was forced to sign the list official start of calling up people one by one for what amounts to a sham trial oh yes you really mean there were no lawyers. there were to read out the judgment and the cheney would have to say i confessed my client i promise i won't repeat my wrongdoings i mean i want to just look at all. i want to know so that. we analyze satellite imagery in publicly available material such as construction bids and tender notices and manage to. locate 3 camps where these trials happened and 2018 in 3 different locations across 2.
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after the trials detainees started disappearing some were picked up at night others led away from their classrooms never to return. but it seems that only those who had confessed to religious acts in the childs were picked up this is yet another indication that china is targeting we get culture and religion . the woman and the other detainees we took to manage to escape to neighboring cousins down the stairs with cars that president seal family members were eventually allowed to leave china. my husband says i've changed sometimes i get very angry so no reason to start screaming during the night i'm so exhausted all the times you asked us. my colleague to w.'s gerry chan as part of the investigative team to put the story together it's a fascinating story general excellent reporting but what comes to mind is the
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question why do you think china feels that it has to go through the motions of these sham trials when everything is being done in secret anyway well actually this is also a question that we have for the chinese authorities we tried to reach out to them to get an answer but they never got back to us about these trials but one possibility is that because in the past few years. reeducation camps in santa and the repression of to wage a minority as have been widely reported on the international media and that put china china a lot of pressure and this kind of child skanky of china lightly and all of that just to make the transfer these detainees from cameras took place and so that king gave an answer to the international community sometimes. legal covertly or we heard in the report some detainees that they disappear after the trials we do we know what happens to them is really to say for sure where they when they are.
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from witnesses we know that it's highly possible that they are taken to high security detention thames or. inside. but since no official documents we don't have. about the names of the people who went through the trials so you have to say for sure the chinese government claimed earlier this year that everyone who had received this so-called reeducation he gone through that they would do they would graduate. if they graduated or joined the leading happy lives no what do we know was that from our research this is absolutely not true as you can see from the report many of them were taken to prison on this high security detention center in fact from satellite image that we analyzed we can see that the high security facilities they have expended in the
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past year or so it's likely that many detainees are being tapped in these camps and also we all also we also saw reports that some of these detainees were actually transferred to. inside. other cities in china so they were forced to work in factories that's false labor and actually some of these factories they produce for international companies including german companies and it's important you do your reporting is important to get this story it leads to the question what is being done that internationally to put pressure on over the treatment of its we're minority so far the international community has been quite quiet about this and the e.u. at this cause. ta get sightings officials who are responsible for their impression of we the us but. it's really quiet and expressive and they say that when i make
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a strong statement after us china is a very nice try and trading partner of germany. between economy and writes well as we said a very important story excellent reporting of the investigations thank you it was time to have a look at some of the latest coronavirus developments the european union health regulator is looking to fast track of the approval of gillian sciences in time viral drug rim disappear as a potential covert 19 treatment here in europe new york city has begun reopening after a 100 days citywide shutdown the corona virus has killed nearly 22000 residents in the big apple the u.k.'s 2 weeks isolation rule for most people arriving in the country is now in effect airlines have watched legal proceedings against the government calling the rule a disproportionate step. where the chief executive of london's heathrow airport has
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expressed concern that the u.k. economy will be further held back by these new quarantine rules the airport is normally the busiest in europe but it has had to close 3 of its 5 terminals because of the walk down. the long waits while travelling are nothing new. but industry big wigs in the united kingdom are worried about a new travel delay starting today travelers to the u.k. must quarantine for 14 days after arriving and so far the rule out has reportedly been bumpy. so all the plane was in the bus even though before we get to the flight they say keep your social this things keep your mosque on and all that stuff but the bus was literally. between all of us apparently people were not informed that you need to. book you on one form
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before you come here i see maybe 5. people who came there if they don't they didn't do it so that we were delayed time thank you madam that says the government says it's trying to protect britain's from the next wave of coronavirus and is ready to lead the steep tines of up to a 1000 pounds to enforce the regulations. detractors like the head of ryanair have called the rules useless and unforeseeable others worry it could be the final nail in the coffin for the country's hard hit tourism industry meanwhile the c.e.o. of heathrow airport said the measures will slow down the country's economic recovery and until we have an exit through almost blanket indefinite currency we not be able to get you the economy up and not. to quarantine also extends to rail services in the countries motorways london says it will review the measures at the end of the month. for south africa's coronavirus lockdown has hit the poor
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particularly hard unemployment is soaring leaving millions of people out of work in one part of keep down a former gang leader has stepped in to help people in meet. many charities in the cape town feed the hungry what sets this one a part of the fact that it's organized by a former gang leader. on my i used to head the mongols one of the most feared gangs in this city. i know now most of the people. in the. with. the slogan on his t. shirt says the harder you fall a stronger you rise it could describe my own life he was behind bars for 18 years for crimes including a martyr conviction this area the cape flats has a reputation for organized crime and drug trafficking keep time she's an average of
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8 murders every day but lockdown has led to a drop in gang warfare according to a local pastor he's been trying to mediate between gangs for 20 years. i like to think of it the call it was in the skies. but it does really really. brought people together from all walks of life. in the 11000000 soon but you know when i get 2 of the gang leaders most of them will visit the pit increase with it's like that over the top of where these motives. are not how do you how do you explain that to a people. there's a resign when a mother of 4 says leon meyer has become a symbol of hope in the area since the last time she used up the welfare payments halfway through the month unemployment is rife here its. people its leaders and people like that in our neighbors to our people. and i think if.
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we don't get the. stuff you know support the community they already believe. but criminologist dawn pena is convinced gang members have an ulterior motive for helping out their community. gangs in my experience oldham do anything for anybody else they they they it's all about themselves it's all about what they can gain so you know my 1st question would be if they distributing food parcels why you know what are they getting out of it and. you know that they might want to look good in their communities but they might be using that as a lockdown so you know how do you get out and distribute your drugs back on the keep flights leave on my own admits that breaking with the past is easier said than
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done. but consider never going to go away are going to be good some very emotive things will always be there will always be gangsters in the way we stay in the way we look they put us all together i used to considering itself against the times. i'm against them a point against the hmong girl i was going against them. because the only way out. and through this. in the meantime days are resigned man is headed home. she says she doesn't judge others a priority is making sure her children don't go to bed hungry. well this is g.w. news after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day be right back. to
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on this 77 percent talk about the. front part of the process from housing to top this is where. the 77 percent. this weekend t.w. . final public memorial service for george floyd takes place today in his hometown of houston texas 2 weeks ago floyd an african-american died under the need of a white police officer america and much of the world have been protesting against racism and police brutality ever since now polls suggested this could cost. the november election it's already changing our notion of law enforcement and what
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