this is g.w. news coming to you live from berlin altering the band behind the movement thousands pay their last respects to george floyd to his death in police custody sparked a global fight for racial justice the calls to defund the police risk losing political support for reform also coming up one year since the start of pro-democracy protests in hong kong muscle rests and a looming national security law are in place to stamp out to say that the protesters achieved anything at all we asked activist judge will fall. and he

prepared himself to don it after catching the coronavirus but somehow this world war 2 veteran managed to cheat death once again and recover. hello i'm terry larson good to have you with us a memorial service has been held in houston for george floyd the black band who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes as the events unfolded democrats in congress proposed a bill aimed at preventing more police misconduct floyd's death 2 weeks ago in minneapolis has sparked worldwide protests against racism and police brutality. hundreds scorching texas sky thousands. to enter the chat trade george floyd's. a last chance for the public to pay their respects to the man whose death has

become a rallying cry against racism around the. the public hearing was held in houston the city where floyd grew up. well this is an important time in our world. and i feel bad it is necessary for me to be here. as a human being. human race being an african-american man it is. why people have the luxury of assuming the police are good and assuming the police are on their side but the reality is that black people don't have that luxury in america justice but also attending the families of other black victims of police brutality and stand in solidarity with this family because it mimics a mad case in this if. they have double bed and claim that number like

a chokehold. that's what we have. in washington democratic senators nelson silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds the length of time floyd a black man was pinned under a white police officers need to fall he died. you see how long it was. that many. democrats in congress have proposed sweeping legislation to overhaul u.s. police oversight which includes banning child cults should day this movement have now moment of national anguish is being transformed into a movement of national action as americans from across the country peacefully protest to demand an end to in justice today with

a justice and policing act the congress is standing with those fighting for justice and taking action. floyd's. many and friends will host a private funeral service on tuesday in houston to remember the life of the man who in death has become an international symbol of injustice. to the little boy. meanwhile the judge minneapolis has set bail at $1250000.00 for the former police officer who was charged with 2nd degree murder in georgia floyd's death that's after derek shelvin made his 1st court appearance on monday by video link shawn's lawyers accepted the bail terms which include no contact with lloyd's family or working in law enforcement capacity he's not allowed to leave the state of minnesota and must surrender all firearms. earlier d.w. a correspondent stefan simmons spoke to us from our washington bureau about what's at stake in these court proceedings. everything and nothing and let me explain

everything because the ever going american community in minneapolis pacifically had asked for and was adamant about a strong charge against their shelf and not 30 agree more about now the 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 being corrupt and. unequal to them through the african-american community in minneapolis so yes this is really really important that this pretrial hearing happened and even if mr sherwin 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 'd his weapons no contacts of the ford family of course all this. makes sense to to have those restriction with the bail very important day for the african-american unit in minneapolis be also it doesn't matter really because the movement is very way way way bigger right now all across the united states just respect to mr floyd. to do your stuff and simmons there talking to us earlier from our washington bureau now the black lives matter of protest in the united states has resonated around the world including here in germany which is now examining its own attitudes towards racism later this month for the 1st time a nationwide survey will black people about the discrimination they face in their everyday lives for. that's what i would miss one of about

a 1000000 black people in germany but nobody knows that for sure as there are no official figure is she grew up in leipzig as the daughter of sudanese exchange students after the fall of the wall life in east germany in the ninety's was difficult for black people many of them left alone. when a right to in most circles around us if and there's a policeman standing around too just lets it happen as 15 people shot the and what . memories like this often make you doubt whether you really well in this country. and. that's why the organizations each one teach one and citizens of europe are conducting a survey the affray census the 1st one on black people's lives in germany daniel

jama hopes it will fill the gaps. fortunately there has been far too little research in recent decades on the situation of black people and on black racism in germany that's what explains why politicians keep asking us what's the problem. they find it difficult to talk about black people so that's why we've decided to take matters into our own hands and walk in the sender is helpful she has from front some walks as a teacher and then she's upset at the lack of sensitivity even among some well meaning whites. the kids were. doing well and then states rights the principal of the school so to rome to the whole assembly and states are just slow. and they're large. interesting. question is like no members. recording and no one talking about it the average

census wants to facilitate precisely this discussion and to better capture every day racism in german society but it also has another effect to see and poems and ultimately it's also very empowering for those swept lack and i think that's great . there's never been a sad day like the afro census before germany is reluctant to collect statistics on citizens according to ethnic criteria. there's always a reluctance to ask communities about their situation about whether they are discriminated against people are afraid that this kind of research will create these communities that we are a part of the society we won't be denied the right to exist and we can all speak about black african people calmly without being afraid of it and. it's hoped it could be a step towards change. today marks

a year since the start of mass protests in hong kong last june or than a 1000000 people marched through the city to protest a draft law that would allow extraditions to mainland china the bill was shelved but throughout months of demonstrations protesters faced a heavy crackdown from police and officials beijing has announced a new national security law that would threaten hong kong's semi-autonomous status pro-democracy protesters now fear what they see as an unprecedented attack on freedoms in the city. in the middle of hong kong we meet up with vivian we can't use her real name as she is currently out on bail and wants to be careful the 17 year old was arrested while demonstrating during civil rights protests now she faces charges of sedition and possibly years in prison police are starting to line up because the people on the street are getting ready to demonstrate but this time vivian won't be joining them. by phone. i have to

stay away from risky situations because if i'm arrested again i face immediate imprisonment. holes that annoys me because i want to show my support but i can't and i feel powerless. 50 metres down the road people marched to protest from kong's ban on public assembly thousands come together as they do every year to commemorate the victims of the tiananmen square massacre in beijing 31 years ago but at the same time communist leaders in beijing are preparing a show of force at the people's congress they are launching a so-called security law which will become part of hong kong's basic law this will allow beijing to deploy its own security forces in hong kong and thus potentially silence criticism a prominent opponent of beijing publisher jimmy leg was arrested 7 weeks ago for allegedly organizing an authorized meetings. the 72 year old is now free on bail

he believes the new security law means the end of hong kong. is like tearing down the old picture it destroys hong kong because with all the rule that street is all. financial center is destroyed because with all the protection. christmas has no protection except to bright the oafish those who have power over you we will be like china the people of hong kong can either emigrate or resist so you know we myself is going to stay and fight to the last the later we meet up with vivian at home she's still in school but says later she wants to study political science at university right now she's still waiting for her day in court so far the date has not been set. i am afraid of being arrested

and sent to prison for 4 years or more. then i will lose many years that i could otherwise use for studying at a university. her parents understand that vivian goes to these protests to fight for a better future even though the result is that now her future in hong kong is more uncertain than ever. hong kong's leader kerry alam today urged all sides to learn from the difficulties of the past year and warned that the city cannot tolerate what she calls more chaos. their issue is to prove is to prove that one country 2 systems work works well in hong kong and to prove that hong kong people are reasonable and sensible citizens of the people's republic of china that we could be trusted to continue to have our own way off life and

our own way off system within the whole country. for more now we're joined from hong kong by democracy activist just wall mr won't kill the people of hong kong be trusted the way kerry lamb wants. people have no trust to a screeching and caring and how one country 2 system is already implemented and result in one country one system now all the people are sensitive enough to continue a confrontation to crackdown from the region a year ago we saw more than a 1000000 people on the streets of hong kong you're very much involved in that movement what has that protest movement achieved. with more than 2 out of 7 minutes population talk to the straight the tremendous population join into the protest results in beijing compromise true there was a pall calmness and completely withdraw out of control for a show a tradition b.-o.

on last september unfortunately for you weeks ago beijing tried to implement the national security law that's the speech crime and also we're tightening the freedoms of hong kong so the loss of paul call is not recognize hong kong today just like westerly all 1948 i want to get back to berlin in just a moment but 1st many of the demonstrations in hong kong over the past year have escalated into violent clashes are you not concerned that the protests have actually been counterproductive that they undermined the democracy movement and strengthen mainland chinese arguments. in lost time for if we be talking our bandit we recognize the rick remarkable achievement by fellow protester. successfully and has beijing to withdraw the controversial bill and on last november 85 percent of the seats in that this are kind of so well by pro-democratic and this landslide victory empire house silence of across the hall

stand with their stand on the side of fellow protesters and of course even force this just by protester a political crisis was solved by political system reform and now the staging continued crackdown on hong kong that already a rest almost 10000 people in this city always skeptical its population but that's not the way out. you've backed a petition calling for germany and europe to take a tougher stance towards china in your view how should germany's china policy change that might have a positive impact on hong kong. someone at hong kong is not only another frame of the 10 should be treated u.s. and china stem of hall call as only about right or left is about right so wrong and i think. for the u.k. for germany or not is the time to not keep silence on the next you know secretely in the mentation because it's not only affecting the political rights it's also

damaging the economy freedom exists in hong kong was this law it's implemented that would have great firewall in mainland china applied to hong kong never say never and a free flow of capital free flow of information was also understood faily is and a crackdown from beijing and when it's also affected the status of halting the asian financial hub it's also a fact that foreign business interests. you referred to berlin the berlin wall crumbling and 1989 in a successful pro-democracy movement if you were to have a conversation with chancellor merkel what would you say to her. we are calling on chaz and i'm a cook to send a clear signal to beijing how many oppose that national secrets in law implementation especially if it breaks and broke the promise of international law on hong kong if the will allow beijing to preach the progress in their joint declaration register in the united nations beijing could also do the same to be

a credible partner and just wrote the promise on their cooperation trade deal with germany a lot of country in europe why do you think manging cares what germany or the european union says about hong kong. hong kong is being recognized as hong kong is not only because off the recognition of fading it's also because it unique status compared to make men tried the myth of being recognized were free markets free fall it's true of the oft yvon nation and press freedom freedom is that unique and universal anywhere that we all be sure wish to call but when east eroded by faith i believe the international committee must have a say on it especially the global community also the us the codice in hong kong. beijing is preparing a new security law that will affect tong kong what do you think how do you think that's going to impact hong kong. as i wrote

as i summarized the next years a cradle as kind of speech crime i would say that if anyone call on president xi to step back in hong kong is of course under the criteria and afraid of freedom of speech if anyone calling on president xi to step down in mainland china might be arrested with that and he suffered regulation but was the national is a great law applied hong kong what's the best day of it's been in china let me tell you we shall pull out this by also happen it home so how to steal and safe got hall call as the free city at a global community that still enjoy certain degree of political and economic freedom i think that's not only the back of the hall that's all sort of attitude of well and if for us this whole call it the next time i want to later on is the rest of the world just won't thank you very much for talking with us that was democracy activist joshua huang there talking to us from hong kong and here. the coronavirus pandemic has been wreaking havoc on economies all over the globe

including the e.u. german exports are down 30 percent for the month of april and other major european economies are offering grim forecasts to italy expects its gross domestic product to drop by more than 8 percent this year france expects a decline by just over 10 percent businesses are now reopening but it will take some time for them to recover. the french love going out for a good meal as soon as the lockdown was lifted french families flocked to their favorite restaurants to be wined and dined by professionals. after 2 months of being shuttered restaurant owners breathed a sigh of relief as they opened their doors to the public. it's the 1st time we can go out and eat since march 16th so it's the 1st time we're going out to a restaurant as a family. well we don't it's a good sign for france's restaurants this restaurant's owner remains optimistic. so

if the weather's good we can book out all our tables then i think we can turn a profit but we have to do as much business as we normally do. but france's restaurants also need tourists and they're staying away for now the tourism sector is expecting big losses this year the french government has already promised billions to keep the industry afloat the same can be said for the car industry as well french unions are mobilizing against france's largest carmaker renault workers they are afraid of impending layoffs board of directors has announced that $15000.00 jobs will be cut worldwide the state hopes a bailout of up to $5000000000.00 euros will prevent those layoffs france's already spending $450000000000.00 euros to help save the entire economy since paris has ruled out tax increases that money will likely have to come from e.u.

coffers well for more now let's bring in clemens 1st he's the president of germany's institute for economic research in munich thanks for joining us professor how severely is the credit crisis impacting europe's economy. it's impacting on the very severely the cover is if you shut down the economy there is little of the government there's little to kill policy can do about that now we are opening ourselves by 7 this is really a critical phase we need to succeed in opening up the economy without creating a 2nd wave of infection i think that is the real challenge here we need to open up there's no way around it. e.u. member states have come up with all sorts of programs to prop up their economies do you think brussels is doing enough well brussels. what brother can do is limited really because the e.u.

budget is one percent of your d.d.p. not very much so far for the c.b.c. has done a lot and brussels has this plan of setting up a recovery plan now this fund is going to have to do to spend money probably next year but what it does today is change the expectations so people expect getting her out of some power from brussels and that alone has a stabilizing effect some say that every crisis is also an opportunity do you see any positive potential for the e.u. in this crisis well there certainly is a potential to think about how we spend our money currently in the e.u. budget and how we can work together better there are ample opportunities if we think about our core across infrastructures in europe research efforts common policies in the provision of public goods i think there is a lot that you could do together and better we should be careful not to get bogged

down on a debate about transfers and redistribution too much we should focus more on public goods we can provide together in migration and security policies in infrastructure and so there that is an opportunity. clemons 1st thank you very much for talking with us comes 1st as president of the if we can of a good student mean. thank you. the credit has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world a far greater number though have survived here's a story of a man in his ninety's who defied all the odds to beat the disease for a bit and you know. when you're young it's different but at the age of 93 what you have to worry about. he had prepared himself for death had housman contracted covert 19 at the age of $93.00 and fought the disease for more than a month. when it hit me hard i was growing miserable and i

was always tired lost my appetite but. i couldn't eat anything at all times. and i didn't feel like eating anyway. during the innes he lost 12 kilos at one point it seemed he would not make it he had already decided against going to a hospital and intubation but had that fought his way through and pushed himself to go just a little bit further every day with his walker he had no fear during his illness. i was afraid when i was taken prisoner i felt fear then but now with the flu i wasn't a toll of right. have had was a paratrooper during world war 2 he says downs times toughened him up and that might be why he was even to survive covert 19 at such an advanced age. we were drilled there it was tough doing the winter we had to wash ourselves in an

open street none of us ever got sick none of us ever got the flu or such things have. pulled about. besides have at the other nursing home residents with covert 1000 also managed to get through it might be as open as the canteen leader describes the day they all tested negative again. we were all so happy many staff members cry and even cry to it was such a relief it was such a great feeling like i. have that is really looking forward to one thing once the coronavirus is finally under control. god i have an electric car to be happy when i can go to the divine river i would drive into the city with it it's been offered for 8 weeks now and it's going to be very angry with me. but not kid very vocal in the kindergartens people can gather in groups of 10 or 20

they can go to a bar or older people who don't have the virus not allowed to go out again. it was nice job there to host. it watching news from berlin i'm terry largent thanks for being with.

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