have to be concrete solutions. and. this is the news live from berlin clashes in london this rival groups come face to face. protests to scuffle with police in the city center they say they're protecting national monuments from being vandalized blackledge matic. brazil's coronavirus told of a takes that britain to become the world's 2nd highest government opens up the

economy but health experts warn the worst is likely to come. and in the bundesliga braman kept alive a twinkling hopes for another season in the top of my pummel last place had an. american held welcome a day of street protests in different parts of the world many focused on anti racism messages spock by the death of a black man in the us under the name of a police officer but there was pushback in many cities from far. said they were protecting national monuments or even national identity our report starts in london . police had warned everyone to stay home the threat of spreading the coronavirus to great but in the area trafalgar square smoke bombs and tear gas bottles and

rocks were the main concern as rival protests and protesters scuffled with the police who were trying to keep them apart emotions took over in some areas far right activists taking over a major boulevard those who said they were guarding a now boarded up statue of winston churchill pushed back polices whoa the statue had been vandalized earlier in the week by people claiming churchill was a racist. i don't write this. i bought it want to stick it out of my hands and i straightened out at the rate of 3 and it was not sure off the street and i think a major anti-racism of black lives matter protest was called off but hundreds gathered anyway. because. we could not allow to the sheer numbers of those who must come together and right in respect of the political situation and to ensure we secure a future of our nation in paris and anti police brutality march 2nd coronavirus

distancing concerns aside and was interrupted by some claiming with an enormous printed banner the protesters are anti block or anti white and sort of tug of war ensued as fists were raised the sign atop an apartment building was eventually torn down. by my son joins now by karen tele chair of the european net with against racism countless same demonstrations from several weeks now against racism in the us and again today in paris and london others demonstrations you think happening because racism has become worse and brazen is in in europe. it has become worse in recent years and the denial of it by our policy make us on a european level but also a different national on different baster levels have also become worse so we have

a clash of reality black and brown people and mash and ice groups and being victims of police violence being victim off institutional racism and on the other hand we have and for example a vice president off the commission skeen us saying that the problem here in europe isn't as a big ass in the us and in general we don't the have problems of institutes their racism transcending into to police for example so this kind of denial of really really provokes the communities and it's dangerous because we see what can happen when there is no accountability and and no reform of the police right karen you have written an open letter to the european commission calling for them to address police violence and structural racism in the e.u. what is it that you want them to do. at 1st and we also put that

in the letter is the reason why policy make us and on a government level can say that there is no existence of a structure racism because we don't have the dates or the end the only data which exits on european level are collected by the fund to murder and fundamental rights agency the is based on interviews. and lead with people from minority communities what is missing is the official dates from stop and go searches from great racial profiling controls from across. we can even fight a member state to prove that there is in fact the problem with these kinds of stopped and searched we do know from research is from the community for example from the car in france and which was generated published in 2017 that black people

40 times more likely to be read stop and search by the police and these and that these encounters often end up in violence so this 1st control of our communities and we do see that our communities our neighborhoods are being controlled but the more often than other neighborhoods these 1st controls can be dangerous for putting lives of our community can tell the chair of the european network against racism thank you very much thank you for having me. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world. workers in kentucky have removed a statue of confederate president jefferson davis from the state capitol building in frankfort to take down the monument grew in recent weeks amid nationwide protests over racism and police brutality confederate states were in favor of slavery during the civil. polish opposition parties have condemned

a campaign speech by president and j. duda and he's address he said the bt rights movement promoted a viewpoint more harmful than communism through this platform opposes gay marriage and adoption and wants to ban teaching. issues in school. brazil is now overtaken britain to become the country with the 2nd highest coronavirus death toll standing at nearly 42000 the government is largely opening up the economy despite warnings that covenanting has not get picked. well for more i'm joined by correspondent in rio de janeiro that is as we just heard brazil has the highest death toll in south america and the 2nd in the world yet the brazil president diables an hour is easing the restrictions can you tell us how that is playing out. what's in our always called for

a return to normal life and the governors in a row and so paul always refused to do so but now recently they started to lift the sanctions to reopen the shopping's and schools and kindergarten so now these governors they are i answering to the pressure also of also narrow and also to the pressure in the population because more and more people want to get back to normal life after 3 months of isolation of social distancing so there is a big part of the society wanting to come back to normal life and you can see it here on the weekends and people are going out with their families mosques but they are really keen to go back to normal lives even knowing that the crisis is not over . mathias in chile the president has just replaced the health minister jaime mandalay amid controversy over the country's figures according to deaths to the coronavirus what can we take away if anything from about that the way chile has

been handling the pendant. it was a close ally to president piñera about and now it was not he was not able to to stay with him in his cabinet so. amendment of the call and a crisis was colonic he reacted too late so they decreed a lockdown when already the death toll had risen a lot so they had to react late and with a strong measures in santiago a lockdown so this will the 1st point where he received many critics and then the counting of the victims it was also caught it recently had to admit to the world health organization that. numbers of rick tims is higher than he announced before so all of this together was a really a call's and a mess so he had to step back. in order to to not

destabilize the government often euro and he said but in rio as always thank you very much it's a poland has reopened its borders to nearly 3 months scrapping a mandatory quarantine for anyone coming in the decision was particularly welcomed by inhabitants of the twin cities frankfurt oda in germany and swedish on the polish side of the order with residents from both cities came out to celebrate with a night. midnight on the german polish border scenes reminiscent of the fall of the berlin wall. the border between frankfurt odorants would be open again after being divided for almost 3 months the twin cities are reunited. in the midst of the celebrations the mayors of frankfurt and pizza forget that they're still in the midst of a pandemic. the night provides

a glimpse of how close polls and germans have come together in recent years. but i realize now this was once unimaginable for a long time nobody thought this could happen hopefully will return to normality as twin cities this is a beautiful moment. this is. some germans are in a hurry to grab some bargains again but what do you want to do some cigarettes. what do you want to do to get gas. at noon everything looked just like it did before the pandemic and many hope it remains that way. i hope it never happens again to these 2 communities on both sides of the border and will always be allowed to cross to the other side she would do it often but railway links haven't returned to normal there are still no direct trains between berlin

and warsaw. a spot on vet a bromance hopes of avoiding relegation received another boost with victory against pettibone on saturday 3 weeks ago it looked like a ship had sailed from the port city but of a light run now means for the relegation battle could be more exciting than the one for the title. h. was last chance saloon for part of born and things got off to an evil species starts when jimmy you colleagues conceded a penalty for this unfortunate hand pull. a strong save from me a point sooner kept me not rush it's a sport keep out and the schools level but parity lasted just a minute longer when davey clawson rose to meet the old guy beside lassies cross singular was powerless and pacha born way behind. it was to no to braman 15 minutes

later and the hosts had only themselves to play sloppy defending giving the sucker the chance to school. there was still time for a 3rd before the break david cross and 2nd of the game putting the points out of the temples bridge i the heavens opened after half time and the hosts was continue to mount a single i might have been equal to just sergeant's effort but maximillian agar stein was there to mop up the rebound the 1st time in a season that brain and have scored 4 in a single game. part of born pulled one back through abdel-hamid some beery thanks to this goal mouth scramble that salvaged a modicum of price approach. when nicklaus food called back braman is fixed with practically the last kick of the game his reaction showed what a crucial win this had been. part of born survival hopes looked to be dead in the

water but brains are hanging on. a man while in other bundesliga action doughton bagged last minute goal to they disallowed off one nil and keep the title race on life support for now young a wage and scoring machine haul and netted his 11th goal and 12 games and well that's. he's sitting up perfectly to head high and the winner the result means by munich cannot clinch the title on saturday for mine my deep in the relegation battle. games are in the can let's take a look at them. they did take care of business against gladbach in the light game as we saw a dog. took down cologne. drew with frankfurt down to head to bell in his brain drubbing of pad a born and on friday at leipzig defeated hoffenheim on sunday monts will made out

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