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you're not a. democracy you have to go a little storage july 1st on t w. this is deja news live from berlin millions across the u.s. marked the end of slavery bases juneteenth holiday is being celebrated and made a nationwide movement and thanks racism and police brutality there's concern a full coming traffic campaign rally could reignite racial tensions also on the program anger in india and china protests erupt nationwide in the wake of
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a border clash in the himalayan region prime minister narendra modi blames facing the violence and wounds of his military capabilities. and a new latest to hold a virtual summit to debate plans for a 750000000000 euro coronavirus recovery fund there are deep divisions about how best to spin the blocks of economic recovery. i'm rebecca riches welcome to the program millions of people in the united states commemorating the end of slavery on this day and 865 the news that president abraham lincoln had declared all slaves to free some 2 and a half years earlier finally reached texas june 19th also known as. tamed is not
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only a day of celebration but also a moment of reflection on enduring racial injustice in the u.s. this year it comes amid a period of national soul searching following the death of george floyd under the name of a want police officer president trump was forced to postpone a campaign rally originally planned for june 19th after widespread outcry. black lives matter protesters gathered across the united states 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 in 1921 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.
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and while 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 told so residents are still affected by racism they say donald trump is not welcome. 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 for days and thousands more are expected to arrive
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on saturday. black lives matter protesters have also planned the demonstration and fearing the potential for violence 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. correspondent stefan simmons is following the story from tulsa we asked him about the trump campaign's explanation of the coincidence of the timing and location of its rally well 1st of all that in say anything 2nd and so was that they chose arklow months presumably told so because the governor and the mayor did such a great job fighting covert 19 in the coronavirus doesn't ring really true because oklahoma's numbers in the coronavirus crisis are actually up actually in the itself
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numbers are also of doubled actually by the day most and so that can't really be the reason the real reason is a political one the president wants to have a strong showing for starting and restarting or triggering his campaign and he thought of a solidly red state and tolls as a good place for that of course there's an insensitivity in that he was not very sensitive a job of picking this state. that here everybody agrees on doesn't make him any more friends if he had any at all here in this community. now to some of the other stories making news this hour police in bella ruse arrested demonstrators and journalists on friday to break up new protests against president alexander lukashenko for the 2nd day in a row opposition supporters had gathered in the capital mends to protest against the jailing of victim baba ricotta. main rival in august presidential election.
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brazil is approaching a grim milestone in its corona virus outbreak it's about to become the 2nd country after the us to pass a 1000000 confirmed cases to date almost 50000 brazilians have died from code that not taking. a top u.s. federal prosecutor is disputing a claim by the trumpet ministration that he's stepping down jeffrey berman says he only learned of his resignation when he read a press release about it and is known for overseeing the prosecution of several allies of president on trump. indian prime minister narendra modi says his country is hurt and angry following monday's border clash with chinese troops in which at least 20 indian soldiers were killed 8 side blames the other for the violence the deadliest clash in the disputed himalayan border region in 4 decades the prime minister has warned he's given the indian army free rein to respond to any new aggression from china.
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saying goodbye to a father family members and the community attend the funeral of seeing the indian soldier was one of at least 20 who died in violent clashes with chinese soldiers in the disputed garwin valley on monday indian prime minister narendra modi says no territory was lost in the incident and warned of his military capabilities. erikson the whole whether it be action or counter-action our armed forces are doing what is necessary for the security of the nation on land and air and on water. the country today has such capability that no one can even dare look towards an inch of our land. the fight erupted in a region of the himalayas where an exact border has never been defined. both sides have accused each other of intruding into their territory provoking of the incident
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. china has acknowledged that its forces suffered casualties but has not released any figures from. the 2 sides are currently engaged in dialogue to resolve the issues on the ground through diplomatic and military channels i have nothing to offer. bangor has now spread across india sparking protests calling for a boycott of chinese goods. we are calling for the chinese president to be hanged the chinese army brutally killed our troops our movement will continue to protest and demand that consumers shun all chinese products sold in our country. our. experts say while the 2 nuclear armed neighbors are unlikely to head toward easing tensions in the region is essential let's cross over to correspondent billing in beijing mathias this
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conflict seems to be escalating quickly how is it come to this. well it's a very old conflict as we've heard right now that dates back to the time when the british colonial rule in india and the chinese imperial state so it's very difficult and there they are frequent standoffs at the border why this time it got so bad 20 indian soldiers killed and some probably some chinese as well although china doesn't release that number we have 2 versions it's very hard to say it happened in an inhabited area. the 2 sides are somewhat were somewhat disengaged from each other there was an area between their outposts that both sides patrolled but that where they did not erect any structures in both accusing each other now of building roads into this into this area and advancing their
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troops china accusing india of building roads and india accusing china of trying to set out a new outpost and this is how it happened who infringed whom who advanced 1st is not clear at the moment yak accusations flying from both sides but china says they're in dialogue with india to ease tension is that really happening. yet there have been that that's one thing that's very interesting to have been that military talks in the region by the regional commands before this incident so this incident happened despite these talks and there have also been calls between the foreign ministers of both sides and another meeting of the 2 sides together with russia is planned for next week so yes talks are happening and everybody's hoping that these talks can somehow disengage the 2 sides and to spending
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a in beijing thanks very much a on tonight. a year late is have concluded a virtual summit to debate a plan to help the bloc emerge from the coronavirus crisis the video conference is the 1st step in water expected to be difficult negotiations over a proposed 750000000000 euro recovery fund division's remind of the funds the size and such things as who pay and how the money should be spread one last quick hello from the french president. and then it was time to get down to business. european leaders were locked in talks for more than 4 hours not face to face but rather pixel to pixel to discuss one of the most far reaching projects in the e.u. is history $750000000000.00 euros are at stake stone. german chancellor angela merkel and her counterparts have already addressed one of the most pressing issues. the nobody here is questioning the fact that the commission
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needs to borrow money after the meeting very many questions remain unanswered such as whether it really needs to be 750000000000 euros or governing the amount there are some who think it is too much there are some only want grants or find grants much better than others are more geared towards loans connected they include denmark's prime minister mentor fraser together with the netherlands sweden and austria became o.s.u. for we want a budget to stay within reason so that it helps europe we don't want danish taxpayers to have to pay a substantial bill that's out of the question. did it have. negotiations are likely to continue in mid july in the flesh in brussels. they have chief international editor richard walker was following the video summit from brussels and he sent this report by all accounts there was very little progress made it was really just
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a bit of an exchange of views and exchange of perspectives and those perspectives in many areas remain very very far apart but i think it's really because there's a there is a broad recognition of the political pressure to come up with a solution here to come up with an agreement we've had a leader after leader from also love found alive through angela merkel many times in recent days but also in recent weeks saying that this is the most serious economic crisis that europe has faced in its history the history of the european union so for europe to be saying that sort of thing but then not to be able to find a common solution a common way forward would be a huge embarrassment it would open the doors potentially to further growth and populism on the continent there are huge stakes specifically for germany because germany within the next couple of weeks takes over the rotating presidency of the european council and so this issue moves right the top of angela merkel's to do
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list for 2020. richard walker speaking to us but we have some football now and leroy sana has indicated he wants to leave manchester city after rejecting a contract extension the german international looks set to return to germany with bae and munich last summer bought a bad injury ended his transfer hopes the 24 year old has a year left on his current deal but city coach gladio has confirmed that he can leave if a buyer can be found. naima has just waved goodbye to a small fortune after losing a court case against his former club boss alona the brazilian star claims that barcelona owed him nearly 44000000 euros as a bonus for signing a new contract in 2016 most of the faith wasn't paid to him after barcelona said he breached his terms by joining paris st germain just a year later and a spanish court ordered name out to pay back nearly 7000000 euros of the initial
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bonus payments. you know what data news will be back with more news headlines at the top of the hour until then you can stay up to date on our website at state of the dot com and don't forget to follow us on instagram and twitter i'm rebecca races in the in from me and the entire team here thanks very much for watching. for middle and i'm walking by the 2nd season the only good for. the planet on the brink of disaster we did a long in-depth interview with experts about one question how to change out. the research.
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