this is news coming to you live from berlin honoring the man behind the movement thousands pay their last respects to george florent his death in police custody sparked a global fight for racial justice but calls to defund the police risk losing political support for reform also coming up. black people in germany welcomed the recent outpouring of support for anti racism protests but they say there's still much to

be done here about harmful attitudes towards race. and his phone call march 1 year pro-democracy protests speeching steps up to set activists warn the world to watch out. and call the next time. we ask. what's at risk of the pro-democracy movement in hong kong failed. and he prepared to turn self to die after catching the credit but somehow this world war 2 veteran managed to cheat death once again and become. well i'm terry martin thanks for joining us a memorial service has been held in houston for. george floyd the black man who

died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost 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. under a scorching texas sky thousands keep our was to enter the church where george floyd's body lay a last chance for the public to pay their respects to the man whose death has become a rallying cry against racism around the globe. the public hearing was held in houston the city where floyd grew up. well this is an important day in our world and i feel bad it is necessary for me to be here to mourn as a human being for the human race and then being an african-american man it is.

why people have the luxury of assuming the police are good in assuming the police are on their side but the reality is 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 parents and. they have double bed and claim that number like a chokehold. best what we have by just. 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 and. which is being transformed into a movement of national action as americans from across the country peacefully protest to demand an end to end justice today with a gesture simply thing at the congress is standing with those fighting for justice and taking action. floyd's family and friends will hold a private funeral service on tuesday in houston to remember the life of the man who and death has become an international symbol of injustice. to the little boy. meanwhile a judge in minneapolis has set bail at $1250000.00 for the former police officer

who was charged with 2nd degree murder in george lloyd's death that's after derek show often made his 1st court appearance on monday by video link sharpens lawyers accepted the bail terms which include no contact with lawyers family or working in law enforcement capacity he is not allowed to leave the state of minnesota and must surrender all firearms. present donald trump has rejected calls to defund or dismantle u.s. police departments in the wake of george floyd's death this comes after many outlets lawmakers pledged to dismantle the city's police force whose former officers have been charged for their alleged role in floyd's death calls to defund the police have become interpol to the protest movement in the u.s. a white house meeting voices support for the country's system of law enforcement. there won't be defining there won't be dismantling of our police and they're not going to be any disbanding of our police our police have been letting us live in

peace so we want to make sure we don't have any bad actors in there and sometimes you'll see some horrible things like we witnessed recently but 99 i say 99.9 but let's go with 99 percent of them are great great people and they. done jobs that are record setting records for the black clubs masseur protests in the u.s. resonated around the world including here in germany in which israel reexamining its own attitudes towards racism later this month for the 1st time a nationwide survey well black people about their wealth the discrimination they face in their every day lunch. 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 figures is she grew up in leipzig is the daughter of sudanese exchange students after the fall of the old life in east germany in the ninety's was

difficult for black people many of them felt left alone. when a right to in most circles around us affair and there's a policeman standing around who just lets it happen as 15 people shout the and what . memories like this often make you doubt whether you really welcome in this country. and that's why the organizations each one teach one and citizens of europe are conducting his 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 black racism in germany explains why politicians keep asking as well 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 his endurance hopeful she's from front somewhat says a teacher in but then she's upset at the lack of sensitivity even among some well meaning white people. my class in my prepared. the kids were super super motivated they were doing well and then they got states rights to the principal of the school so to rome to the whole assembly and state i just love like museums. and your large. interesting problem and the real question is like no more 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. ultimately it's also very empowering for those swept lack and i think

that's great. there's never been a survey 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. our political correspondent kate brady is covering this story for us kate how does this so-called afro census fit into the public discussion that's going on in germany about racism right now. well of course the survey was already in the pipeline but as we've seen in recent days it's very much

fits into a much bigger story right now taking place in germany and this is when you receive how poignant the timing is as well last saturday across germany we saw 150000 people taking to the streets to demonstrate against racism and at the same time though that is and we have here in germany will seen an increase in the number of cases of racist discrimination in the latest figures were just announced earlier this morning and so the hope is that now this for census will be able to fill in the gaps that have been left by the anti discrimination report which doesn't really break down the stats into different groups of people so there is hope that this will be able to fill in what the under discrimination report has left out. tell us more about how this survey will be rolled out what kind of questions will it. well there will be some very standard data collection questions like age and gender and

also disability as well but they'll also be questions about experiences of discrimination as well as economic participation civic participation and also what participants in this survey would demand from more makers to ensure that discrimination and racism here in germany is tackled in the most effective manner. why is this data not already available in germany has it never been collected. well germany has a lot of issues when it comes to public discourse about racism and a lot of that has historical reasons germans become very dubious very wary when society when politicians begin to group people or define people into different groups and so that has meant in the same time a very well intentioned concept if you will of well we don't define people by races and different ethnicities therefore there can't be any racism here in germany we

know that that simply isn't true and actually makes the the public discourse in the conversation about institutionalized and systemic racism here in germany all the more difficult so the hope is now that with this information gonna buy the afro sends us this will be able to move that conversation forward ok thank you very much that was our political correspondent kate brady there. now for some other stories making news around the world today north korea's state news agency says the country will cut its hotlines with south korea as a 1st step to shutting off all contact with seoul running is threatening to sever ties with the south of it does not stop defectors from sending leaflets and other materials into the north. wildfires have been spreading across the u.s. state of california due to high winds and dry weather water dropping helicopters worked through the night to put out a fire in los angeles county the national weather service issued red flag warnings

for several regions in the state. but as well and state t.v. has reported that a flight carrying humanitarian aid for the fight against the code 19 pandemic has arrived from iran and as well it has widened its alliance with iran after washington imposed sanctions against a latin american country. today marks a year since the start of mass protests in hong kong last june more 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 is announce a new national security law that would threaten hong kong 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 it 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 on 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 the ploy its own security forces in hong kong and thus potentially silence criticism a prominent opponent of beijing publisher jimmy late 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. that destroyed hong kong because with all the rule that street is all or financial center is destroyed because with all the protection. business has no protection except to bright to all fish 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. well in the us i'm afraid of being arrested and sent to prison for 4 years or more but then i will lose many years that i could otherwise use for studying at the university. so. 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. on congress leader kerry today urged all sides to learn from the difficulties of the past year and warned that the city cannot

tolerate what she called more chaos binmen 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. or earlier i spoke to hong kong democracy activist joshua walling i began by asking if the people of hong kong could be trusted in the way kerry lamb what's fair. hochul people have no trust to a speech ng and carol 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 crack down from the regime 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 are up 7 minutes population talk through the street the tremendous population joining to the protest results in beijing compromise true there was a fall columnist and completely withdraw the controversial extradition b.-o. on last september unfortunately free weeks ago beijing tried to implement the national security law that's the speech crime and also we're tightening the freedoms on hong kong so the loss of paul call is right 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 last september

if we be talking our bandit we recognize the rick michael assured by fellow protester. successfully and has begun to withdraw the controversial bill and on last november 85 percent of the seats in that this are kind of so by pro-democratic and this landslide victory employer house silence mike wrote in all should stand with their stand on the side of fellow protesters and of course even force this just by protester political crisis was solved by political system reform and now the staging continued crackdown on hong kong already a rest almost 10000 people in this city on the step of millions population but that's not the way out. you've packed 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. something like hong kong it's not only another

frame of the tension between us and china stem of hall it's only about rights it's about right or 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 the mentation because it's not only affecting the political rights it's also damaging the economy freedom exists in whole call was this law implemented 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 paul called being the asian financial it's also a fact that foreign business interests. you referred to berlin 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 chess in america to send a clear signal to beijing how many are post that national implementation especially if british and the promise of international law on hong kong if it will allow beijing to preach the promise decoration register in the united nations making could also do the same to not be a credible partner and just the promise on art their cooperation trade deal with germany ot a country. that was just a long talking to me earlier now the credit 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 mr gross domestic product to drop by more than 8 percent this year france expects a decline by over 10 percent businesses are now reopening but it will take some

time for them to recover. the french love going on for a good meal as soon as the walk down 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. event in a playoff but 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 you know. well we don't it's a good sign for francis restaurants this restaurant owner remains optimistic. see to me 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 francis 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 there are afraid of impending layoffs or news board of directors has announced that 15000 jobs will be cut worldwide the state hopes of bailout of up to 5000000000 euros will prevent those layoffs france is 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 the world health organization is warning that the current virus crisis is worsening worldwide and that's after $136000.00 new cases were reported to the u.n. agency on monday the biggest single day rise so far most of the cases came from the americas and south asia meanwhile w.h.o.

officials say the spread of the corona virus by people not showing symptoms is very rare despite warnings from some experts that suggest the opposite and pandemic has forced the cancellation of an annual philippine peace prize regarded as the asian nobel it's only the 3rd time that the round on marks a say prizes haven't been awarded in their 60 year history. the credible iris has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world a far greater number of the have survived here's the story of a man in his ninety's who defied all the odds to beat the disease it's been a year mate. when you're young it's different but at the age of 93 what do 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 as it has diminished me when it hit me hard i was growing miserable and i was always tired lost my appetite but the knew i couldn't eat anything at all times just the same and i didn't feel like eating any way more than 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 that habit 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 innocence . i was afraid when i was taken prisoner i felt fear then but now with the flu i wasn't at all afraid. i have had was a paratrooper doing well too he says downs times toughened him up and that might be why he was able to survive covert 19 at such an advanced age. we were

drilled there it was tough during 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. brought about yet that. besides have that 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. maybe it was new job you don't know if you're watching t.v. news from berlin we have more for you coming up at the top of next hour and of course you get all the latest news information anytime you want on our website that says don't call i'm terry martian you'll find me on twitter that t.m. new strain let's watch.

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