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questions are swirling over donald trump's comeback around me why now i think factions search and health experts warn the venue could become an enormous coronavirus petri dish and one tulsa close to the size of one of the worst of race massacres in u.s. history i'm phil gayley in berlin and this is the day. we'll be in oklahoma in tulsa oklahoma what a majority if not all. felt that it was a slap a real hard. part. of an hour ago hoping we can be on break this. morning but over a 1000000 people. so many people are over. with
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now that are there to see and we certainly were. also on the day the un's high commissioner for refugees program and he talks about the need for a global response to global challenges and if we don't work together we won't be able to overcome them. every day not that we're learning very much that he's teaching us this lesson. welcome to the day we begin with a u.s. presidential campaign in a time of national turmoil we know donald trump draws energy from big events and his adoring base but will saturday's comeback rally in tulsa cost him precious political capital health officials are warning that it has the potential to become a super spreader event for coronavirus it'll be a dose of the wearing of masts will not be compulsory and there. in the state of
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oklahoma which this week has seen a record number of the number of new infections sole critics also accuse the president of being best deaf to the racial tensions flaring across america the rally was a visually show job for today june 18th and an unofficial holiday marking the end of slavery in the u.s. even though the cho campaign pushed the event back a day there's no changing tolson's painful racial history. catalyzed matter protesters gathered across the u.s. on friday to commemorate the end of slavery the president's choice of this day for a campaign rally sparked a huge backlash so too did the location tulsa oklahoma is the site of the worst incident of racist violence in u.s. history and 921 its greenwich district was a bustling hub of black owned businesses known as black wall street it was razed to the ground by white mobs some 300 black people were killed. and while
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our black men fought courageously to defend their homes and businesses to defend their families they were eventually. so outnumbered and outgunned that white rioters broke through those barriers and invaded the greenwood district and the massacre had begun. 99 years later many telfair residents are still affected by racism they say donald trump is not welcome our community is still emotionally tards we are still hurt we are still hurting and. and suffering and this is not a good time for him to visit the green with this tree but the rally will take place only on saturday and there is little hope here that it will contribute to unity and healing. not far from the greenwood district trump supporters have been camped out
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for days and thousands more are expected to arrive on saturday blackflies matter protesters have also planned a demonstration and fearing the potential for violence the city has imposed a curfew around the venue for trump's rally the president himself has tweeted a warning to anti racism protesters traveling to tulsa you will not be treated like you have been in new york seattle or minneapolis it will be a much different scene all israeli and tolls is supposed to be the big relaunch of the trumpet campaign after the coronavirus pandemic severely dented the president's approval ratings a d w correspondent stephanie simmons is told so welcome stephanie so how has the trump campaign responded to the questions why here in tulsa so close to the site of the greenwood massacre and why it's so close to june 13th. the official answer from the white house is that they chose tulsa and the and oklahoma because
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oklahoma and the governor here is doing such a great job fighting covert 19 and keeping the numbers down however though both is actually could be further from the truth because the numbers as you pointed out are through the roof in oklahoma and as well here in tulsa we're here in the greenwood district which was just described in the piece and. the people who are here we who we talked to there are anything but policed by the president's ambition to come here tomorrow and hold his rally no one up there and it's an important one the curfew which was mentioned is no more the mayor just released a statement and say it's the curfew is rescinded immediately and effective immediately all pawn request of the secret service the secret service according to the mayor had also requested that there would be a curfew in downtown with a rally will be tomorrow again now that pedaling back and everything is back to 0 or the 1st step no more curfew downtown tulsa just 2 or 3 miles down the road here
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and i think people here are expecting for tomorrow not too many good things to happen because the curfew was was imposed as a health a measure given that officials are warning that this valley could turn into a coronavirus spread event one of the organizers doing to try and keep people say. it's going to be sounding very city when i say this but then being on the face minutes they will provide hand sanitizer and they will have you sign a waiver where you sign you right away to sue the president or the campaign in case you should get sick while attending the trump rally which as you pointed out will start and is designed to read trigger and start the charm campaign for the presidential bit in november to come now however when i said this might sound silly because as you said the. experts say handing out sanitizer and having people running around with face to face but not adhering to social distancing which is not
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possible if $90000.00 people are in a big hall and then signing a waiver this all doesn't smell right to many many people and to a lot of experts that's for sure. we heard in the report donald trump saying that he never has an empty seat. people already queuing. there's actually people waiting in line and camping out in front of the be ok the bank of a club home or centers since about a week ago last monday now that's not a big crowd now and those are the really hardcore trump ians if you like if you will but days people expected to come here in a massive amount the mayor said that about $100000.00 people are supposed to be an influx he had to toll so an influx they have actually not had any time before in that in that measure so this will be definitely also security challenge for
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tomorrow and let's just see what's going to happen then no good talking to you thank you for joining us the chef on seaman's in tulsa oklahoma. that's going to historical perspective on this from that general to hold he's a professor of history and african-american studies at the university of houston is written dozens of books on racism in the history of slavery in the u.s. he's latest is the dawning of the apocalypse the roots of slavery white supremacist settler colonialism and capitalism and the long 16th century welcome back to the day professor hold on it's often thought that slavery in the u.s. that ended with abraham lincoln's emancipation proclamation 1962 but juneteenth tells a different story. it does in fact both stories a somewhat flawed with regard to mr lincoln's a massive case and proclamation it did not necessarily apply in places in the united states where the united states government the not necessarily exercised
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sovereign states speaking of texas and generally speaking of the so-called confederate states of america which it's a seat of 9 states in 1961 on the basis of extent in slavery for ever more on the other hand jute team tilts a story about what happens on june 1865 when major general gordon granger of the u.s. military shows up in galveston texas all the southern coast of texas and tells the enslaved that they are free as a result of their message placement proclamation that the story that we're being told today and i'm happy to say that there is now a movement afoot to make june 13th a national holiday but the stories actually more complicated and complex basically what happened is that mexico was under french puppet rule during the u.s. civil war and texas and slavery because we're very close to these french puppets
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and they were thinking about entering mexico recall that they have the cedar from mexico in $836.00 that is to say texas because mexico had moved towards the abolition of slavery now with maximillian in power they thought that they could cut a deal to ruston the lease on life of slavery but that was crushed and squashed and then we heard in the report about the tolls a massacre in 921 quite close to where this rally is taking place on saturday do you see this as anything more than an unfortunate coincidence. well certainly that's not the perception bus and the kaamelott harris of california one of the more striking critics of mr trump and i dare say that her idea is an idea that is accepted by many what i mean is that this is seen as another thumb in the eye by mr trump in the eye of the black community he is not very well regarded in
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the black community generally recall that the original plan was to have the rally in tulsa on june 13th which was seen as dumb and both sides so now he's only give us a foam and one. we've mentioned the masika just reading through the history of it is illuminating in lumps of ways we have black business analysts successful black business owners who after this massacre could not rebuild their businesses because insurance companies refused to pay out so the violence being perpetrated was at economic as well as physical and it is correct oklahoma has a very unique history in terms united states originally oklahoma was for us to be the land of the indians that is to say many of the native americans from the south east for example the charities were forced to march on foot in the 820830 s. to oklahoma where they were supposed to have that forever more as
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a homeland but like so many promises to native americans this promise was also was not kept but black people also flocked to oklahoma many of them were close to the choctaw native american grouping and many of them became prosperous which apparently outraged many of their your american neighbors which led to the tulsa massacre of 1021 which eventuated and some 300 black people being slaughtered and dumped in a mass grave. so professor here we are 155 years after the 1st liberation day black people in the united states are no longer held as slaves and the country has even elected a black president even has black university professors so what will it take for the social and economic a playing fields for the u.s. is nonwhite minorities to become level well i think you've had a glimpse of what it will take in the past few weeks not only with these protests on the streets from the atlantic to the pacific but perhaps more important than
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that the protests in auckland new zealand sydney australia london england the remarkable session in geneva switzerland a united nations human rights council were african nations basically sought to bring their own states into the dock on the grounds of quote systemic racism unquote their term not mine being visited a point people of african descent historically that kind of international support has been is some still in terms of the pushback against slavery the erosion of us apartheid in the 1950 s. and it appears that history is about to repeat itself in 2020 good talking to faggot for joining us professor gerald hall from the university of houston thank you. i want to europe which is better able to weather global storms and provide a safe home for future generations so i'm looking forward to today's discussion i'm
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convinced that folk common success we must stay focused on the big picture we must all pull together we cannot afford any delay. well european commission president or sort of on the line calling for unity as the a you worked on a plan to help the country's worst affected by the coronavirus pandemic the leaders held a summit today by video conference the 1st step of overcoming the worst economic crisis in the block's history because their actions on the $750000000000.00 euro coronavirus recovery fund are expected to be difficult leaders will be face to face next month for the 1st time since february is german chancellor angela merkel speaking after today's meeting here had to do you start 1st spoke about the positive aspects and also brought up criticism where appropriate even though there are still big bridges that need to be built that's clear but it was a very constructive discussion and there are there constitutive in upness here so
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what are the biggest obstacles to reaching a deal of this coronavirus recovery fund is the w's international editor richard walker in brussels well there are a lot i think essentially all that they've really agreed on is the need for there to be a recovery fund and one quite important thing that has rubicon that has been crossed is this idea that the european commission will borrow the money centrally on the financial markets and then distribute it so there's consensus on that but but almost everything else is still open the size of the fund the commission wants $750000000000.00 euros there's a small group of countries that have come to be known as the frugal 4 who say that's too much should the money be distributed as loans that have to be paid back or grants that is essentially a free transfer of money there's big debate about that according to what criteria should the money be distributed so all of these are very very big questions they're
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not as minor details that this is going to be the source of an awful lot of haggling in the weeks to come. time u.n. high commissioner for refugees is calling for global action to help the world's displaced people during the coronavirus crisis according to u.n. figures the number of refugees has doubled over the past decade and their plight is being compounded by the global pandemic an estimated 80000000 people around the world are now living in forced displacement but the outbreak of comfort 19 of course borders in new york but africa to close making it harder for them to flee and the supply chain for aid has been critical crippled by an economic downturn. and despite the border closures rescue ships are still picking up migrants trying to cross the mediterranean to europe warmer weather and better sailing conditions are expected to lead to a surge in such attempts filippo grandi is the un high commissioner for refugees he
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told the dublin but european leaders must read prioritize migration policy or face the same problems over and over again. look you know i i am european myself i come from italy a country that has been severely hit i understand the priority now is the health situation and the economic downturn but what i'm telling them is that if you keep postponing the vital discussion on asylum and migration if you don't consider seriously the proposals that the european commission has put before all member states this is just something that is possible we will have this problem again in 6 months boards floating in to be the 3 by the way we've seen it even during the peak of the pandemic and no solution because there is not even an agreement between states on what to do with those that are these impacts if we don't make progress
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there we face further emergencies in europe in the future. the pandemic has hopefully finally brought home to everybody this fundamental message that we live in a world in which many things are global whether we like it or not including challenges i'm not just talking about the pandemic was everybody understands that but what about climate change what about migration and refugees what about in security terrorism and if we don't work together we won't be able to overcome them dependent he's teaching us these lesson every day not that we're learning very much but he's teaching us this lesson and i do hope that this starts filtering in and across to the leadership send if we move away from this a dangerous discourse me 1st we 1st my country 1st and lead truly copper 8. china says the latest
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corona virus outbreak in beijing is now under control the authorities imposed a pasha lockdown after the virus remerge that the sprawling food market this week the movement of people ended out of beijing is being strictly controlled with all travelers required to undergo testing. few in china have felt the economic impact of the coronavirus as much as migrant workers. who young she is a day laborer who usually works on construction sites but the building sector took a hit from the corona virus outbreak and then. finding a job is harder now than it was. there more protective regulations like social distancing rules. but we have survived the worst months of the pandemic threat even quite sure that she wasn't. at private job centers postings on the windows show how much the job market has taken a hit wages are declining the equivalent of around 20 u.s. dollars per day instead of 30. but who you know she says he doesn't want to
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criticize china in front of the international media. she uni is one of the few people in china willing to speak out he's a human rights lawyer and authorities have been watching him more closely since the pandemic began. when many chinese took to social media to call for freedom of speech he participated by signing a petition. with the police told me that if i didn't cooperate with them and delete what i had written if i continued to speak my mind there would be consequences for my family and me. she worries that the government will use the pandemic to tighten its control over chinese citizens a number of journalists have already felt the pressure. now leads a war was a news anchor for state controlled media when the pandemic hit he quit his job to
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report independently from. a classified ad called for night shift workers at a funeral home lead took the job hoping to find out the true number of people who had succumbed to the virus. he was broadcasting live when plainclothes police entered his apartment and arrested him he disappeared for 2 months. in april he appeared in a single video explaining that he was simply in quarantine many of his viewers say he had been forced to lie. china's critics say state propaganda has been ramped up since the pandemic began state t.v. portrays china as a global savior sending health care supplies by the ton to countries in need national pride is on the rise china's handling of the crisis has been a model for the world that's the opinion of many here at the great wall. this is
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how china works 1st our leaders come up with a plan and the people should follow without raising too many objections and benefits everyone. on the way back to hama. so here you see the difference between socialism and capitalism you should probably take a lesson from china china believed it had the coronavirus pandemic under control the economy was once again up and running but a new outbreak threatens to draw the country back into a crisis. here in germany police are under fire not acting quickly enough to arrest a network of child abusers investigators are still working through a mountain of digital evidence some of which was confiscated more than a year ago 18 suspects have been taken into custody accused of the breakup and torture of at least 6 children many of the how crimes are alleged to have taken place in the allotment garden house rigged with sophisticated film equipment. this
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is what the crime scene looks like now police have completely dismantled the garden house and transported it to their laboratory the property belongs to a community allotment garden this district in the city of minster is known as kinda house or children's home in a tragic twist of fate this home is where children were abused the next door neighbors say they had no idea what was going on it's strange because usually huge here if a child was being tortured like. the main suspect is a 27 year old expert he and other suspects in custody supposedly drugged the children the house was set up with a video studio in another basement there was a room with a server the videos show prime's that investigators could hardly stand to watch how could anyone do this to children. when abuse occurs the
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victims are dehumanised and. they are no longer seen as someone deserving respect and dignity rather they are seen as objects that can be used. the garden house belonged to the main suspects mother she taught in a local kindergarten and is also being detained by police. responsible that the mother worked at a kindergarten and simply allowed the man access to these children i don't know how something like this can happen in today's world and i'm shocked it's disturbing that the neighbors didn't notice anything. the city police and court system were aware of the danger posed to the public by the main suspect he had already been convicted twice. believed that this man who is now the main suspect would reform himself and no longer pose a danger to children. they now know that these evaluations or simply wrong.
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the head of monsters children's protection association wants authorities to be more careful and make better decisions he runs an independent organization campaigning across germany for children's and young adults writes he says society as a whole should be responsible for protecting the under aged. everyone that means the whole population must be made aware that sexual violence against children happens on a daily basis in our society in our city just as an author cities it's also important to warn children of this danger the police are still investigating the crime scene every day they uncover new details. about the day.
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