this is the w 5 from the funeral of george floyd's takes place in his hometown of houston texas his coffin arrived for a private ceremony about an hour ago after thousands pay their last respects just implored staff and police custody spoke to a local protests against racism also on the program oscar winning director spike lee gives his reaction to george floyd's death he says donald trump will go down in history as america's worst ever present. president compared currencies that dies of a heart attack it was due to step down from

a. welcome to the program the funeral of george floyd the black man whose death in police custody ignited global protests against racism and police brutality is just to begin shortly not in jest arrived to have arrived to the church in his hometown houston texas the funeral is to be a private affair tended by about 500 people on monday around 6000 file past his coffin to pay their last respects unknown in life george florence killing 2 weeks ago after a police officer on his neck may now mark a turning point in american history. me underscore ching texas sky thousands queued for hours 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 viewing was housed and host in the city west lloyd grew up well this is an important time 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 being an african-american man it is i wouldn't miss this for the world justice but also there with families of other black victims of police brutality that stand in solidarity with this family because it mimics a mad case and this is a bad signal to me. they have double bet and claim that not my life but i can call. that what we have by could just.

in washington democratic senators note and silence 8 minutes and 46 seconds the length of time that slow ojt a black man was pinned under a white police officers need before he died. you see how long you. have that need. to see the. democrats in congress have proposed sweeping legislation to overhaul u.s. police the site that would include banning chokeholds to 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 it and to in justice today with a just a simple a thing at the congress is standing with those fighting for justice and taking

action troitsky family and friends are holding a private funeral and who stand to remember the life of the man who in death has become an international symbol of unjust. well we can join the correspondent on the outside fountain of praise church in houston as people arrive for a few. days around about celebrating the george floyd all morning here. well 1st of all it is a very said event of course for the family of one of their last ones who has died and as you see in the report his body that was late yesterday for the public thousands came to see him to bid farewell many of the people i spoke to were in tears but there was also some optimism there that he did not die in vain that because of the protests his death has sparked something will really change when it

comes to racial injustice in the united states and around the world and so there is another dimension to his death here is the pastor says they want to celebrate his life there are several civil rights activists who are going to speak at the funeral today as well as a congressman from washington d.c. that have already arrived and so the big hope of course for the matters movement for for the black community and for everyone else who cares about this topic is that his death was not in vain that something will change when it comes to racial injustice ga floyd has become an icon for people across the world because of the nature of his violent death what do we know about him in life. well many issues tony and see him as one of them person as well one lady told me yesterday someone who could have been your neighbor essentially and so he spent large a large portion of his life here in the city of houston he had children he. was

a hopeful hip hop musician then had of course his ups and downs in life did some college moved to minnesota became a truck driver a security guard. then eventually in his death sparked these worldwide protests and became a figure as you've already set for people hoping to change racial injustice and inequality. all of us a lesson houston thank you so much. george floyd staff came as no surprise to spike lee the director of films like acts and do the right thing as made a short film which makes connections between george floyd's death and what the filmmaker sees as institutionalized violence and racism in america's police forces the oscar winner told d.w. wyvis time he's hopeful of change. spike lee's response to the death of george floyd was to make this film editing footage of floyd's killing with the chokehold

death of america garner in 2014 and with scenes from his own 1989 film do the right thing the writing was based upon the real live show called murder of the artist might was due and then the anything about. the simple and brutal message is this is happened before if nothing changes this will happen again. but lee does see a difference this time in the broad group of americans whose response to george floyd's death was to take to the streets just black and brown america white americans or white your sister brother take in the streets and joyous all in saying this has to stop and there's a national crowd or these police departments across america we've got to do some with them you know they got they

got to be reform change asked app and our elise has done the $96.00 states of america. actually i for decades spike lee has been making movies about us racism and the forgotten history of african-americans amid the shooter action of his new film the 5 bloods about black vietnam vets least slips in social and political commentary. about the current president of the white house leaders of mince words his nickname for president donald trump says it all agent orange going to go down as the worst president in history of the united states in america. and is only now see his allies these generals and politicians are slowly starting to move away from him because they can read right into a wall and they don't want to go down in history attached this

guy being on the beat on a written down history is on the wrong side of history with a capital w. for the 1st time in decades one of america's loudest critics sees hope for real change hope i see years of millions of americans taking to the streets saying enough is enough i see hope in how you feel more hopeful on november 4th that's the day after president elect. well george floyd's death. resulted. in process around the world. as well coincidentally germany's federal antidiscrimination c. has just published its annual report it indicates that there is an ongoing problem here and it's getting worse. germany is slowly waking up to the

discrimination but the number of cases is on the rise there were 3580 reported cases of discrimination in 2019. stuff you. shouldn't be any gaps in protection in the long term and this is an important as rights movement that spelling is the 1st state to happen passengers and anti-discrimination law visit. and other status or should follow through shortly. to counter his latest report looks at this communication based on gender disability age religion sexual identity and worldview but the largest issue remains racial discrimination. cases in 201933 percent were classified as racist discrimination a $1176.00 reported cases last year more than double compared to 4 years ago

in the report so in practice it penned cited their experiences. to colleagues from another department approached me laughing and asked me if i worked at the company to make coffee i am a civil engineer from syria. a kid at school insulted my brother because he's got dark skin then he hit him the teacher saw everything but did nothing. and not isolated cases. and gotten into a family racism isn't really address there's a very limited understanding of he explained it's limited to political rights there is no understanding that systemic racism is present at all levels of society and this debate must take place because racism kills our institutions. the report comes at a time when a new awareness towards everyday discrimination is race following protests denouncing police violence to its people of color all over the world. we can take

a closer look at this with iman out of tory was a vice president of schleswig-holstein aware she has such as a member of the green party since at 2017 she's also the 1st german and the youngest elected m.p. to hold the vice presidency of a regional parliament here in germany minorities are still under represented in public life a welcome to be doubly is germany doing enough to tackle discrimination. i don't think that we are doing enough in germany and this is something we definitely have to discuss and. i why do you think that is. because we don't really have a discussion every time talk about racism in germany the 1st question which is then ours is always does racism exists in germany and this question shows there we are not aware of racial discrimination a lot of people are facing here in germany and what problems do you believe that

causes. it causes that a lot of people like 25 percent in our society having migration for example and they don't feel like they are in treatment the way they should that they are been seen or heard for example so it's a problem we don't listen to people who face racial discrimination every day so for what you said it's clear there is a problem but it doesn't sound like that problem is recognized by the people who are not affected by it how do you close that gap. i think by the fact that we talk about in politics and trying to talk about all these subjects in politics and trying to address politicians who are in the responsibility to change the situation and the other fact is that i believe that a lot of people and person of color are you to go into politics to address this problem but in the end of the day it's probably all have to talk about the whole society and so the afro census that we just heard about do you see that as being

a useful thing. i think it is a useful thing because it is about our research about things our numbers we don't know about the african german community and as the energy america sat before we don't really have numbers about half of germans here are a lot of politicians don't know that exists you know that's insane actually because we live here and we're part of the society but we are not seen or heard in terms of politics ok and so what do you make of the protests that where we're seeing following the killing of george floyd. i think it was important that even in germany where the troops testing on saturday i join such protests here and she's the boss and in this their own living in doing politics and there are a lot of people black people but also other people were set in viruses and who are on the streets and are telling us politicians that we have to do something about it

and i think it shows that we really have to tackle this problem good talking to you thanks for joining us i'm an author touré and here i was take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world and started in the u.k. had a mare of london city colonies calling for monuments in the city to reflect the country's diversity as the debate over racism and britain's colonial past heats up he was speaking days after anti racism protesters in the english port city of bristol pulled down a statue of 17th century slave trade. iran's judiciary says it is sentenced to death an iranian man who provided information to the u.s. and israel about the location of the revolutionary guard commander cassim samani general saleman he was killed in a u.s. drone strike in iraq in january. and british president appeared in currencies or has died of a heart attack just as he was due to step down from power the government of the

landlocked east african nations says the 56 year old was admitted to hospital on saturday after feeling unwell seriously suddenly on monday that medical teams were unable to revive him his 15 year old was marked by deadly political violence and historic withdrawals from the international criminal court. we get more from the w.c. east africa correspondent salah neko who joins us from nairobi welcome salah will the president said deaf at the handover of power to his one big successor who won last month's election. well it shouldn't really expect the hand of power they have so at the moment what will happen according to brandy's constitution is that the speaker of the national assembly is supposed to take over until at least in day she near the. elect the president elect basically

takes over at the end of all this and so that shouldn't affect the hand of a much on the other hand. was supposed to take on a position as a virus that the supreme guide to the nation basically and so there we might we don't know what people see in terms of a vacuum of power. in terms of who will who will actually advise and. perhaps even control the next government for the presidency comes just days after his wife was rumored to have been airlifted to kenya with the how well house to handle the pandemic well as you say they are there room as basically that his wife lifted to kenya now the government not the kenyan government nor the government has confirmed this but we do know that there was that somebody did come into the country and and is being treated at one of the

hospital at one of the private hospitals here. he has been criticized quite a lot in recent months for its handling of the current crisis so for example the w.h.o. representative in the country criticized the government for not keeping any social distancing and other measures in place during the election campaign and also during the elections they were then asked to leave the country a week before the elections and that's true quite heavy criticism and briefly how will the president includes this 15 year rule be remembered. well he came to power basically after a long civil war so the 1st 10 years were definitely peaceful years but internationally i think that these are will also be remembered for the fact that he was that he tried to do that but he ran for a 3rd term in office which resulted in demonstrations and protests around the

country and but he basically forced 3 or he was basically he basically managed to run for the 3rd term and. so the last 5 years of his of his term in office were basically partly. were part were part were part of the. world will probably be remembered for the for the human rights abuses and the torture that has been happening over the past 5 years. your correspondents elevator thank you. now take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world high winds and dry weather have spread wildfires across the u.s. state of california the water dropping helicopters work through the night to put out a brush fire in los angeles county national weather service issued a red flag warnings for several regions in the state. is even deserve returning to

life without social distancing restrictions a day after the country's declared to free of the coronavirus residents are flocked back to cafes to catch up with friends gone back to sports classes are canceled during a lockdown. of the russian capital moscow has emerged from a strict lockdown on tuesday with the city government's i think a slowdown in new infections after more than 2 months muscovites are now allowed to go out and use public transport without restrictions and people took to the streets in the parks and went for jobs and enjoyed the newfound freedom basking in the sun most were not wearing the obligatory masks rushes that high school and professions around the world with must of many the epicenter aids outbreak the city still reporting between one and 2000 new cases every day. straight to moscow where we joined d w correspondent emily schoen welcome amily so the lockdown there in moscow was

particularly harsh and low so how are people taking the lifting of the rules. well i think it's a bit of a mis mix because as you say. there are still just under 2000 cases here in moscow every day and the capital has been the hardest hit. in all of russia so i think some people worry that it's too soon but i think most people are breathing as it were a collective sigh of relief here in moscow because moscow saw a strict lockdown they were alec tronic passes for any trips on public transportation on cars in cars stores were closed parks were closed you weren't allowed to go out for walks or for exercise so really rather strict measures for most of the time and i think most people were relieved especially because with the hot weather most people weren't kind of sticking to the rules anyway but let's take a look at what some people here in moscow told me about this step in the game so

story that we hope that the authorities haven't acted too early and that there won't be any consequences after all a lot of people have come out into the city one. that i was new to sit on those that are people got infected anyway despite the lockdown so i don't think it really worked and instead a lot of people lost their jobs and people were essentially in house arrest. us which we do use or. a lot of people were outside anyway for the last few weeks so essentially they've just been given permission for what was already happening but you know it's. i believe the number of covered 19 deaths are cases in still increasing that's why the sudden move to. kind of what people here in moscow are asking as well it did come as a real surprise when the moscow mayor announced that lockdown was being lifted after all before the on in the mayor had said that he wouldn't be announcing any

loosening of the measures in till next week and he had said that the numbers would really have to be lower for the lockdown to be lifted completely now sources here in the kremlin according to media reports or have been telling media here that perhaps that has something to do with the more general political situation and they've even been saying that met with putin before he announced the lifting the lockdown after all on the 1st of july there is this all important at least for the kremlin vote on the constitutional amendments and those amendments could keep bloody near putin himself in power for another 2 terms so until 2036 if he's reelected and that's a really important day for the kremlin they've been kind of trying to create an atmosphere ahead of that the right atmosphere there having the victory day parade which was postponed on to the 24th of june to kind of create

a patriotic atmosphere ahead of that vote that's at least what experts are saying and i think perhaps this lifting of the lockdown could play into that as well so that people aren't afraid to go to the ballot box and that they come out and vote in this all important this all important vote thank you for that i'm going to show it in moscow. oh in football tonight it's a german cup semifinal between 4th division. the bundesliga side leverkusen would normally be a david and goliath affair a 4th tier team has never made it this far before but with the pandemic shutting down that. competitive 3 months just one more challenge for a team that's been this season's giant humans. these are broken players are preparing for their biggest game in the years but that task is being complicated by the coronavirus the german cup semi final will take place without fans who support played a key role in the quarter final penalty shootout victory over just

a go was held here is not ideal the fans have been through a lot in the last few years it hurts they can't experience this moment with us. the club is missing out on a significant source of revenue by not having fans in the stadium that money is much needed here especially with all the extra hygiene measures having to be person placed huge virus to cup success has also had its benefits. we're seeing the positive effects at all levels with members with sponsors and also the demand for season tickets. it's nice to see how interest in us has grown in the past few months. despite being in germany's 4th tier britain can boast a proud tradition it was one of the bendis leaders founding members in 1963 which in the period that followed the club faded into obscurity its biggest success since

the cup final appearance by the women's team in 2008 was. now the focus is back on the men underdogs for the clash with been this league a side laver koos and. then the. believing we'll see how we're coping in the 1st 15 minutes whether we can ride out the early stages if we can do that and get into the game i'm confident we can cause in some trouble young arrogant. so now the dream is still alive the underdogs are hungry for more this isn't legal and. take you back to our top story the funeral of george floyd the death in police custody. 1000 global protest the cuts racism and police brutality this is getting underway these are high fictious church town of houston texas if you know as a private that 10 to 5 to 500 people like to play to next to his mother in the

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