from birth to death star june 18th. this is. a stunning legal victory for the community in the united states supreme court ruling that the 964 civil rights act does protect again and transgender people from discrimination at work we'll get reaction from an activist who was at the forefront of the fight for same sex marriage in the u.s. also coming up. so many times.

but never this kind of. the award winning journalist maria ressa failing to appeal her conviction of cyber liable by a court in the philippines she says the ruling is meant to silence critics of president. and funding the vaccine the german government by 23 percent stake in the german biotech firm. it's the same company that the u.s. government reportedly trying to buy. our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we start tonight in the united states with a big victory for the community the supreme court in the u.s. has ruled that it is. legal to fire workers based on their sexual orientation or

their gender identity the court said the nation's landmark 1964 civil rights act which bars workplace discrimination based on sex also protects gay and transgender people the vote was 6 to 3 with 2 of the court's conservative justices joining with the court's 4 liberal justices in that majority decision. and there have been reactions coming in on social media apple c.e.o. tim cook tweeting grateful for today's decision by the supreme court people deserve equal treatment in the workplace and throughout society and today's decision further underlines that federal law protects their rights to fairness the user david millie writes in the 1970 s. i was fired for coming out as a gay man not once but twice it took me nearly a decade to get my career started and i still bear the scars today's supreme court

of the us ruling a huge win for. people the gay rights group glad adding the supreme court's historic decision affirms what should have been never even been a debate americans should be able to work without fear of losing jobs because of who we are for thrive we're going to get reaction tonight from los angeles i'm joined by paul khatami paul and his partner his husband jeff they were plaintiffs in that landmark case 5 years ago in the u.s. supreme court that made same sex marriage legal in the united states paul it's good to see you i just want to ask you could you compare if you would how you felt today when you heard about the supreme court decision compared to how you feel felt in 5 years ago when same sex marriage was made illegal. well i thank you so much for

having me it is a historic day for l.g.b. to q i plus americans and there that will ripple around the world as well i think a lot of people felt that they didn't really understand that we could be fired in the majority of our states until today and that is how historic this ruling is and it feels similar but different yet 25 years ago and then a few years prior to that in 2013 when our lawsuit banned proposition 8 and restored marriage equality in california and then they were broke of all case 5 years ago just was one of those stepping stones as one of the things we talk about progress in a way and to day to actually inform people in a way it's rebel its way with like i didn't know that you could be fired for being gay in so many states and to reiterate that in a way to say we can no longer be fired in the majority states because all states have to abide by federal law and federal law says our civil rights protected by title 7 it is a historic moment for us as a community well paul how do you explain to people particularly from outside of the

u.s. how was it possible for it to be legal so long in the united states for someone to be fired because he or she is gay or lesbian. it is shocking actually at the backbone of our country i mean it it is etched on the supreme court of united states equal justice under law and in this case we when we talk about oppression we talk about being prohibited the same rights of other people and some people are shocked to find out that these laws actually exist we are where we have a responsibility there's a burden upon us as well to make sure that we're informing people that we're fighting for equal rights and that's why i applaud these plaintiffs unfortunately some of the plaintiffs are no longer with us but in their memory we understand that we stand on the shoulders of giants that came before us that paved the way for us to continue to educate and live our truth and be out there authentically fighting for what we believe in and now here we are again we have another day to say that we

have prevailed in the sense of equality and not only equality but he and the law is black and white and that's what's most important we understand that there's a public consumption of information that is sometimes misinformation about our community but when it comes down to equal protection under the law that is what is affirmed by the law when this courts do this and it's a surprising victory as we said like we did not necessarily expect this court especially no course it's a trump appointee to a right this opinion in our favor do you know when you want paul who has lost his or her job because of his sexual orientation or because of their gender identity. we do actually we have met a few teachers that lived in states that were married on a friday and when they returned from being married and put their wedding photo on their desk were let go or fired after being discovered that they were l g b t q plus and that is so heartbreaking for people to understand but it was perfectly

legal so they had no ramification except go back and say you are affecting my life and my livelihood based on who i love and who i am and not is what these cases reaffirm today in particular for our transgender community because of talk about oppression in a way that goes beyond just the workplace that this is yet another stepping stone to one understanding that this exists in our country and to to overcoming the barriers that we have just because of who we love and how we live our lives. halted saami one of the pioneers in the united states who helped make same sex marriage legal in the u.s. giving you his insights and thoughts on today's supreme court ruling paul it's good to see you we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you thank you. well now to another verdict this time from a court in the philippines that has convicted a prominent journalist of cybele libel maria ressa now faces up to 6 years in

prison she has vowed to appeal the verdict media watchdogs have called this case a serious erosion of press freedom under president. award winning journalist maria ressa arriving in court in manila to learn her fate . the verdict guilty of cyber libel 482012 article her website rappler published linking a businessman to human trafficking and drug smuggling. ressa once worked for c.n.n. and holds dual u.s. philippine citizenship she says she's been devastated by the verdict which she sees as a part of a government campaign against her and her publication. next year will be my 35th year as a journalist i began as a reporter in $186.00 and i have worked in so many countries around the world. been shot at and threatened but never this kind of death by

a 1000 cuts the case was closely watched as a test of press freedom under populist president would require. the court heard the libel complaint even though the article in question was published 4 months before the cybercrime law was enacted russia and rappler are not the only prominent philippine media to face problems with the authorities last month one of the country's leading broadcasters was shut down rights groups were in the country is entering dangerous territory it is indeed a very. this country. is really this sends a message every journalist. who wants. or you're going to be next russet now faces a prison term of up to 6 years in spite of the verdict she vows not to be silenced him or is now on bail pending her appeal we spoke with her earlier today and we got

her reaction to this for. it was an unexpected if you look at it in the context of the 8 criminal charges cites case i had to post bail 8 times last year just to remain free. and a slew of attacks against journalists in that has intensified with the shutdown of the largest broadcaster just last month. i suppose i walked in feeling in knowing that there could be a worst case scenario that would is even worse than this one and so what i listen to it i just i tried hard not to get angry and then to figure out how do we continue doing our jobs better to give the tasks this is a unique moment in history and we're seeing a rise of storage area populist style leaders actions almost and you're seeing the attacks on. i don't think i've lived and i'm this is my 34th year i'm going to be a i'm an old journalist you know and and i've never seen anything like this i've worked

in war zones i cry on for weeks but this is all different types here you have and i feel like in my country at least we're standing on the precipice and we must do all we had to protect press freedom which protects our democracy that was maria ressa speaking with us earlier christiane near is head of reporters without borders in germany i asked him whether he sees this verdict as an attempt by the government in the philippines steve erode press freedom in the country. unfortunately it's going to pete dropped it all with press freedom in nixon just recently great sound 80 s c e n which is a major city broadcaster lost its franchise and we as well saw the president himself very often i credit it drummed into us actually identify journalists and nice and he create actually marry our restaurant as his present enemy and that way

we can understand today's ruling as groovy actually which has been ordered by president chet now as christiane you know there with reporters without borders germany for more coverage and to watch the entire interview with maria ressa you can visit our website it is deep w. dot com well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world in mali army officials say that 24 soldiers have been killed in an ambush on a military convoy authorities say jihad is to open fire on about a dozen vehicles near booga we were on sunday the country has been beset by a jihad is revolt since 2012 that's despite the presence of thousands of french and you when troops a russian court has sentenced former u.s. marine paul whelan to 16 years in prison after finding him guilty of espionage he was accused of having obtained classified state information the u.s.

and says it's outraged by whelan's conviction and is calling for his immediate release. russia has opened a criminal investigation against kremlin critic to alexina of all the over comments that he made on social media the outspoken opponent of president vladimir putin is accused of posting a video about sweeping constitutional reforms alongside comments that the committee says are faults and amount to slander. the german government says it plans to take a 23 percent stake in the private biotech company cure back which is working on a covert 19 vaccine now that steak will cost 300000000 euros chirac is based here in germany and is about to begin clinical trials for a coronavirus vaccine later this month here's a closer look at the company that is attracting both scientific and political attention. to evacuate one of the big hopes when it comes to developing

a vaccine against the coronavirus it's method is particularly promising now the german government has taken a 20 percent stake in the company giving it a 300000000 euro boost. the ease of it this investment is a way of providing chovanec with security so that it can continue to work with commitment towards producing a vaccine. cure back hit the headlines this year when the us government allegedly attempted to entice the company over to america monday's move is therefore also about sending a clear message about the government's industrial policy. that says look we want high tech businesses companies which serve people to continue to develop their products in germany and europe and we want to ensure such companies have the conditions they need here q of ak is such

a company. in the. june we'll see the 1st clinical trials with healthy volunteers the remote and 120 vaccine projects currently underway well white and no one knows when and if a vaccine will be found. all right for more now i'm joined here at the table by my colleague and business correspondent chelsea doing chelsea's going to seize the 1st time you've been here at the big table with me it's good to have you here so this story obviously begs the question why is the german government making this investment now. there's a couple reasons the 1st is that there's really a huge rush going on right now to to get to a vaccine because life and economies will not return to normal until we get a vaccine so we're seeing a lot of governments and a lot of companies are really pushing forward with plans for a vaccine the other thing for germany is that they really do want to focus on creating a homegrown pharmaceutical and biotech industry so this pandemic has really highlighted

the risks for a lot of countries of outsourcing all of these pharmaceutical and health equipment production to other countries so germany really does see it as a national security risk so we have seen this become a bigger and bigger topic for germany they really want to ensure that they have companies within their borders that can respond to health crisis is in the future is it a good business decision because we still don't have the vaccine we don't have a vaccine now and we don't know if this is going to be successful almost all of vaccines fail it's extremely expensive to create and cure of ak is one of the smaller players in the game so it's really competing with a lot of really big companies like pfizer astra zeneca we don't really know how that's going to shake out but they have seen some pretty good results in animal testing that they've done so far they're seen as really promising they are doing a special type of vaccine it's called an m.r.i. on a vaccine it's very new it's supposed to be much simpler to create once you sort of

nail the technology it's supposed to be able to scale up quite quickly so that's one of the reasons why it is sort of seen as a good investment for the german government right now about 30 seconds this is the company that. reportedly tried to buy earlier this year why have these suddenly become so political. well you have to consider that it comes in the backdrop of just huge tensions between the u.s. europe and china all there's so much protectionism there's so much nationalism going on right now and economic policy in general and politics in general so that is one of the bigger pressures but it also has just really highlight of this concern that one sees me once a vaccine is found that it won't be distributed and in a democratic way that countries like the u.s. like germany that have the funding to vest will have 1st access and it's really going to be every man for himself chose to delay and reporting thank you very much

to morrow and tuesday starts rolling out a truck in trees smartphone aimed at helping to stop the spread of the corona virus germany is following italy and france would launch their own 2 weeks ago user privacy data protection a big concerns here we have this next report from peer. downloaded still as soon as it was launched users who test positive get a box they can end to in the op. then other uses who they've been in close contact with. sam and you do you appreciate. the app is on a voluntary basis and obviously doesn't replace other measures like face masks. but it's one out of several tools that can help protect me and the people i meet.

michelle hasn't tested positive nor has she received an alert there are no official figures on how many alerts have been sent out so far but she still hopes the app will be effective. me i know that there has been a president makes in the past that i never thought i'd live to experience one it was frightening and very worrisome and it's too early to say if it's over only to keep up our guard. but only about 2 percent of people in france have downloaded the app so far many are concerned the government might use to track people but michelle says that doesn't bother her sukey we are all using mobile phones and being tracked through relay mouse it's it's very easy to know where people have been at a certain point in time also through facebook and twitter compaction that is not a threat both. michelle hopes more people will use the app and that the cave it 19

epidemic soon becomes a thing of the past. or the private space technology company space x. is steadily expanding its network of satellites known as star lead the satellites will provide space based internet connectivity around the world now on saturday the company launched a rocket from florida state canaveral carrying almost 60 of its star link satellites into orbit the company now has over 500 internet satellites already circling the planet in the virtually plan to have 12000 in orbit around the earth while. 12000. the growing number of satellites in orbit is worrying some astronomers you say that they are cluttering the skies and interrupting our ability to research stars and asteroids to tell us more my colleague joel story who is a star gazer i understand if you're at the big table so i mean 12000 satellites is a lot of satellites by any measures and taught me a little bit about how it fits into star link and what does it look like starlink

is both beautiful and terrifying i've seen it myself i was on holidays in the amazon jungle in colombia i looked up and i saw a string of lights moving across the sky and i had no idea what i was looking at now some of our viewers might have seen something similar in the last united states following this launch and what we're actually looking at is the satellites as they're putting themselves into position over time they spread out a bit more into so you only see one of the time but there are these launches of having with such frequency that sites like these are going to become more and more common as we said the $540.00 are up there already now put that in context that's around 20 percent of all active satellites currently orbiting the earth and they've got even bigger plans they want to put $12000.00 up there that's how many they got permission for sneezing now the plan is that they going to surround the planet with a weather satellite so that they can provide constant into that current connectivity to many different places and you know you could say there's so much

space it's you know infinity east so can it really be crowded can there be too many satellites and some people might also say you know it's great to have internet everywhere whenever we want to but it all comes at a cost and that's because every time one of these satellites pastas above a telescope it leaves a streak in the very sensitive imagery that gets used to try and explore space and so astronomy is a worry that we're not going to be interrupting those kind of observations i had a chat to professor patrick sites who's been researching the impact of stalin on astronomy and he said that this is not only impacting the science but it may actually impact the ability of humanity to survive in the long run now listen carefully what it has to say about killer asteroid i'm scared now. are we at a turning point 1st our enemy yes we are this is a potentially and actually 'd stand still threat. to ground based astronomy the problem of near earth objects the killer asteroids they are the surveys that go for

their more wide field and they go low on the horizon and they work a lot at sunset and that's where that most sensitive to finding killer asteroids that might impact the earth so 'd they're they're doing a lot of short exposures but they're trying to cover as much sky as possible and never the satellite impacts will be very severe typically the way new planets are found is that you monitor a star for a long time and you look for depths in the. in the light her and those depths can be quite short so if a child like right goes across the star at the moment you're expecting it if you're in trouble so if professor perth professor patrick sites is correct not only could these satellites interrupt our view of the coming asteroid that will destroy our planet but also block of view of the planet to which we might be able to escape whether we don't want to see it when it's coming you know that's the best way to

end it how in space eggs responded to this criticism and this is serious stuff so the space x. has actually responded in the latest batch of satellites they have modified the design so they have more shading and different kind of paint so that they are less reflective and less visible to the human eye but they are still up there interrupting telescopic observations so that problem has been fix it gets worse there are more companies now thinking of launching including amazon we could be surrounding the planet with multiple constellations of privately run networks of satellites and now the astronomers i talked to said it's not too late to act that we need to come together and create a new global agreement about how many satellites there should be in space and how they are governed but we could be living in a really changing moment when we tell our children that we were living in a time before stolley before certainly before we had traffic jams on highways and in the skies i guess you could say joe thank you. all right after 3 months of walk downs many european countries are reopening their borders for summer tour is

a spain is kicking things off with a pilot project that's invited a select group of german tourists to the island of majorca where they will test the new public health measures which are aimed at preventing a new outbreak take a look at. official footage from the 1st plane load of german tourists allowed to land in majorca on a trial run. they can hardly wait for their holiday to begin. before you happen to be back i think the spanish government into we have done a great job of preparing things this is going to be a great vacation not as full as it used to be a bit quieter but that's how it should be noted i thought often. hotel staff welcome the 1st arrivals with applause glad to be finally open for business again as a syrup spigots tourism company to e. existence is the travel is our livelihood especially marketing air travel it's incredibly important for us and for the region as well if you consider how

many jobs depend on tourism from dollars most are paying but the impact of the coronavirus crisis is evident barely a few meters away from the beach many restaurants and bars are still shut some hotels may never reopen fountains of people have lost their job and many of them are obliged to stand in line for food like here at the top door charity in the majorcan capital palma volunteers here can hardly meet the demand which took them by surprise. then and now is to help around 750 to 800 people now we have nearly 8000. that's why everyone here wants the rest of the tourism season to be a success booking numbers are up for the coming week when people from other european countries will be able to travel here again and they won't just have to rely on masks to stay safe majorca is deploying technology to keep the risk of infection to a minimum sensors at beaches and public places will pick up mobile phone signals to

determine when an area is too crowded because the coronavirus pandemic is far from over one. 3rd is true as a reminder of our top story this hour the u.s. supreme court has ruled that it is illegal to fire workers based on their sexual orientation or gender identity the court said the nation's landmark 1964 civil rights act which bars workplace discrimination based on sex also protects gay and transgender people. this is news after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day we'll be right back.

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