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and order. to. obtain. this is deja vu news live from berlin and open borders once again for germany in 5 more days government officials say all land border checks will be lifted on june 15th we look at what that means for the summer travel season. meanwhile a fresh outbreak of the corona bar stirs up tensions and a western germany challenge many playing the wrong muslim families who say they are the target of a smear campaign. plus
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a final farewell for george szell the man died in police custody in minneapolis 2 weeks ago laid to rest in his hometown of houston hundreds of mourners gathered to remember floyd whose death made him a global icon for racial injustice. i'm sumi so much kind of good to have you with us as corona virus infection rates low german interior minister haas the whole fire has announced that germany will lift the remaining checks at its land borders on june 15th now things will then be mostly back to the way they were before the start of the entry restrictions which were introduced in mid march to curb the spread of the coronavirus in germany. they opted rules will reopen borders with switzerland france austria and denmark
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where struction still apply to non european union citizens until at least the end of june and air travel to italy and spain is also set to resume. let's bring in our political correspondent kate brady with the very latest on this story hi kate can you tell us more details about what is being relaxed exactly so as over june 15th all border controls on germany's borders with neighboring countries will indeed be lifted and at the same time that will allow aid to citizens with citizens to travel freely into germany without checks but as you mentioned there are a couple of exceptions it's worth pointing out that controls on flights from spain will still indeed be in place until june 21st but of course all of these relaxed measures and relaxed controls are all subject to change depending on how the situation develops in the coming months when it comes to the $1000.00 pandemic kate
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germany's travel warning to most of europe will also be lifted starting june 15th but there are exceptions there as well can you tell us more about that. exactly similar rules but the travel warning will be lifted on june 15th both of the e.u. countries for any normal e.u. member states of the schengen zone and also for the united kingdom as well but again spain will only be accepting a limited number of tourists from june 21st except for a large number at least up to almost 11000 german tourists who are going to be able to travel to the belair araik islands particularly to may all car huge tourist destination for many germans every year and so they're going to take part in what effectively will be a whole a day a pilot project to see how people cope with certain social distancing measures and coping with hygiene restrictions that are in place while the pandemic is still
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going but still while that able to enjoy a holiday if you look at all these measures together if you're in germany when you and you want to travel to countries outside of the shannons of this visa free travel zone what does that mean for them. well the travel warning for outside of the e.u. has now been extended until august 31st and said that includes more than $160.00 countries now the german foreign minister said that they could change and that could be exceptions made depending on how individual countries move forward in handling the pandemic in the coming weeks but for now he said that germany just simply doesn't want to run the risk of having hundreds of thousands of german tourists stranded aboard internationally in the coming weeks should there be a 2nd wave in at the moment the the data and the information just isn't there from all those countries outside of the e.u. to really calculate what the risk might be to encourage germans to travel outside
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the e.u. . reporting thank you very much. as those travel restrictions are eased however there's been a 2nd coronavirus outbreak in germany after a lockdown measures were loosened the western city of getting it is now saying new cases surged to dangerous levels and a muslim roma community is facing accusations and racial abuse over the outbreak we went to getting it to find out more. the apartment building rises into the sky right next to the heart of the city this building has seen a significant outbreak of new coronavirus cases and several large muslim roma families supposedly gathered to celebrate the end of amadan without sticking to social distancing rules the families the night this. yes we celebrated ramadan we went to the mosque we kept a distance everyone had
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a mosque on his own prayer mats we followed the rules. since the outbreak of division between the people living in the apartment block and the rest of the city is growing a snake and pain broke out the inhabitants speak of spitting attacks and insults. we are furious about watches happen to us this really is just purposely stirring up huge animosity towards us. to say it is. now the head of the city's action committee apologizes for some of the words he used when communicating the cases but some people are simply irresponsible she says. i'm sorry now that i used the words large families in connection with the outbreak because the words large families are often associated with people from an immigrant background and it was not my intention to discredit anyone but what we have to
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state is certain individuals have not followed the rules in the context of this outbreak and this is absolutely unacceptable one does i'm fine or go where the infection spread is still unclear this is also a suspected hot spot an illegal gathering with over 30 people is said to have taken place here many of them sharing the same shisha pipe now distancing measures that were just loose and could be tightened again after the latest outbreak schools have closed this week that makes people angry but there is also a sense of awareness rising this winning ugly would move to oh it's unbelievable meeting at that restaurant i simply can't understand how they could do you that can this under any fish day in this month the us market guns really we can talk about the fact this was irresponsible behavior but that has nothing to do with people's religion or nationality it's
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a cool video. anyone who does such things in times of restrictions meeting people in public places that simply brainless no matter what religion or beliefs they practice it's called the city has now tested as many people as possible in the last few days everyone agrees now that the infections are here further spreading has to be stopped as quickly as possible. let's check in now on some other stories making headlines around the world swedish prosecutors have named the man they believe killed prime minister olof palme in 1906 but they say they're now closing the case because the suspect a stick and strong died 20 years ago hama was gunned down as he left a stockholm movie theater with his wife. coast guard officials in the mediterranean have recovered the bodies of 20 people off the tunisian coast they are thought to be migrants from sub-saharan africa and a search has been launched for around 30 more people who were on
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a boat that sank on its way to italy. the global economy will contract at least 6 percent this year due to the corona virus outbreak the economic organization o.e.c.d. is also warning that a recovery will be slow and that a 2nd wave of covered $1000.00 could shrink world economic output even more. india is seeing a dramatic surge in new coronavirus cases with officials reporting around $10000.00 new infections today the total number of cases stands at more than 276000 the death toll however is relatively low which just under 7500 still curbing the spread is a major problem in india's overcrowded prisons especially in the capital delhi where jails are packed far beyond capacity. that a former inmate who says conditions for prisoners could prove deadly. members the time he spent in jail. he was accused of involvement in several related
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cases he was finally acquitted of all charges. but only after spending 14 years in prison. he's tried to get back to leading a normal life. but still is often reminded of his time locked up as a prisoner. especially now during the call the 1000 pandemic. says he was confined in a barrick with over 300 people instead of the allowed 150 depression it was difficult to even find speech. we couldn't even sleep comfortably we would think to each other while sleeping i don't know if any single person gets infected with. so it will be very difficult to control it from spreading it is very difficult to maintain social distancing. many big indian prisons are crowded far beyond their capacity this is because the last majority didn't preach i detention coupled with
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poor sanitation the nutrition this creates a perfect storm for the. whole 100 people including prisoners and staff members death to call the 19 intimate prison now multiple positive pieces have been detected in the daily business but this becomes especially concerning it but meaning social distancing in india for the crowded prison is next to impossible to decongest indian jails prisoners are now being released on interim being or images . depending on the severity of dicky's or how sick they are. is part of a net folk of lawyers working pro bono to secure the release of inmates. but things are not moving as fast as they should about 10 per cent doctors nurses have been released so far on being according to official figures. lerma says he's verdict that arrests are still being made because normally. this would be bomb.
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but i have all these things can be done by the police. if there is a move you would govern the circuit court of law. many inmates unknown life sitting ducks they have hardly any protection against the virus can do or don't they are russian intellectuals once said that a society's degree of civilization could be just buy into thing its president is an imperialist power and says this isn't much of basic human rights everyone should be entitled to that. no matter where they live he says that indian prisons need to be prevented from falling 3 to a great tragedy. to the us now where george floyd a black man who died after a white police officer pressed his need to his neck for almost 9 minutes has been laid to rest at his funeral in houston texas friends and family members spoke about
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the man they knew and loved floyd's death ignited global protests against racism and police brutality. morning a man whose crime in the what's of his supporters was being born back more than 500 guests attended the funeral and he sed in texas for george floyd his death under the knee of a white policeman spots global protests calling for a show justice. as we. speak is that the ceremony made impassioned pleas for change clematis system because in proclaimed laws largely in place for the african-american system to fail . he's lucky to be shane just no more hate crimes police so why is it make america great again but when has america ever been great. enough this
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year latino civil rights activist reverend al sharpton nicky's president on a trunk of caring more about trying to stop protests than ending police brutality. and we know the price for black light is the same as the price for white light we go keep coming back to these situations over and over again is that a law will work or it won't work. trumps opponent in the presidential election democrat joe biden also delivered a video message to the funeral. now is the time for racial justice. that's the ins we must give to our children with. because we're nurse justice for george. truly be on our way to racial justice in america and then she said she. changed the world. well so all of
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the funeral was also a rousing tributes to the life of floyd. thank you for watching to debby. the. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and. our corona update.
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