this is the news live from berlin the united states prepares to mark independence day coronavirus. many americans are choosing to stay at home but plenty of want to celebrate the 4th of july without restrictions on that freedom to have fun also on the program. the international in turkey sentenced to jail on terror charges from a german activist cleared in the same trial there's arrests the diplomatic route between turkey and.

the program we start in the united states for the run up to the 4th of july independence day weekend record number of new corona virus infections 55000 were logged on thursday here's a look at data showing the daily tally of new cases every day from the start of the u.s. outbreak rising steadily at 1st the curve flattens from the end of april to the middle of june but as lock down restrictions eased to new infections shot up again well a startling statistics mean this weekend's independence day celebrations are being scaled back as officials urge caution and public and private gatherings washington bureau chief and his poll has been to ocean city in marion and to gauge the mood.

for many americans this is the 1st time out after a month in the they are hungry for fun and some want to celebrate this 4th of july weekend as they normally do i'd like to keep moving on to the fireworks continue no malice as much as we can move it back to normal saying this is what we'd like to do i think if you take the right precautions there's nothing to be scared of you don't want your party to know what you enjoy yourself but you have you know how many thousands in a group want to protest. how to deal with a pandemic is highly politicized some fear that the restrictions are taking away their personal freedom of those just seeing the responsibility of action. i expect here in our community where marilyn that because it's tore season now for parts i like that these cases are going to come back as people do not socially distance or where there are mass while visiting our beaches i don't think president probably any i think he will continue to you know say it's a hoax and not believe in the science that is there called in so many cases and.

this lack of guidance creates a turn them off for business owners between health concerns and remaining competitive. run so in the bar and grill in the 5th generation. we want to know where i'm at but if they don't know where i'm at we can't tell them where i'm at because if they're right to wear a mask or not i don't feel safe with them at night when i'm at you know that flat where i'm at. but yeah i would rather that where. you can make it out you can make it a law that you know that we have to wear if it's recommended for our safety and our health. you know you can make it where you know you get fined $500.00 if you know where. the united states are facing a new record high of with 19 patients littlewood you know here at the boardwalk in ocean city maryland the majority of the people is not wearing a mask they tell us we are here to fund we want to celebrate we are done with this

why was the business owners obviously do have a different approach they fear that after the. they will face a new wave which will lead to a new lockdown and that would bring them to their knees in 2 weeks' time we will know whether the right steps were taken people celebrated this unprecedented falls into life in a responsible way. of of earth fears of the next wave. to come to. let's have a look at this with william shatner who's professor of preventative medicine at vanderbilt school of medicine i joined us from city of nashville in the u.s. so welcome professor i'm what do you think should americans sit this weekend celebrations out well i think they should go out there fun they should go out carefully rather than in a carefree fashion i think we need to wear our meniscus social distancing and avoid

large groups that run in that we just heard that bothers me a great deal it sounds like our last holiday memorial day weekend where many people went out in a very careless fashion and we had many many infections as a consequence we'll see what happens this year i'm really worried over i must say ok well as a number of us cases skyrockets the president has been tweeting let's take a look at what he said he said there's a rise in coronavirus cases because our testing he so massive and so good far bigger and better than any other country this is great news he said but even better news is that death and the death rate is down also younger people who get better much easier and faster so professor just take us through some of those claims and tell us what you think of what we'll start with this idea that these numbers are skyrocketed because the u.s. is doing more tests. we are doing more tests and the more you test the lore you'll

find but there are many many more people in heck did then we detect with the tests and that's because we have opened up and there's been a great spread of coronavirus we haven't been careful enough not by far so i'm not persuaded by that i'm just not an easy to that it's because it's younger people who quote get better much easier and faster he appears to think that this is a better news well younger people do have a milder case often without symptoms or very modest symptoms but they are spreaders they are contagious they bring it home to their aunt susie who has diabetes and to their grandfather tom who is older and has heart disease they get sick and they will be in the hospital so the young people must cooperate with everyone else so

they don't spread the virus ok how is it that the richest country in the world seems to be failing so badly at keeping a people say do you see this is a failure of policy or political leadership or is it just what happens when free people in a democracy allowed to choose to ignore health advice well it's a mix of everything but most importantly we don't have a national 'd policy and the communications have been chaotic it's no wonder that some people don't wear masks because the national leaders many of them don't wear masks so there's a great deal of confusion we have not had a coordinated consistent national plan it's a great failure thanks for joining us professor william schaffner from the vanderbilt university school of medicine. well take

a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world starting out geria weather remains of 24 resistance fighters have been welcomed home in a solemn military ceremony for the men were killed in the 19th century while fighting against french colonial rule their skulls have been kept in a french museum. british prime minister bars johnson has set out a list of 59 countries from which travelers can enter england starting on the 10th of july without having to go into quarantine countries like the us sweden and brazil are not on the list. france has a new prime minister sharon caustics there's a center right now man who was sacked heading up the country's reopening strategy after the coronavirus lock down his appointment follows the resignation of his predecessor eduardo felipe and his government. is now caught in istanbul has sentenced a former leader of rights group amnesty international to 6 years in prison the

verdict against time to kill the child tara charges brought in and what critics say was a politically motivated trial targeting opposition activists the court sentenced 3 other turkish defendants to prison and acquitted 7 german activist of pettish joy was one of those who escaped a jail sentence his arrest in is down both 3 years ago triggered a crisis in relations between germany and turkey. let's go to where istanbul where we joined d.w. correspondent dorian jones welcome dorian i did today's case attracted much attention. well among human rights defenders both local and international yes they were out in force a pivotal case for human rights in turkey along with critics of the government but mainstream media which is pretty much under control of the president heard one and his government paid attention to this focusing more on earth one speech today we've made some powerful statements and also the jamal khashoggi case drew

a lot of attention given the fact that the government is strongly backing it but in social media which many of the opposition do get the news as one of much of the young social media was burning with that there was outrage over the conviction of and this is another attempt to silence human rights defenders and it really does illustrate that turkey is a proud 2 parallel worlds exist those supporting the government who get one view of what's going in turkey and opponents and critics who get another in this case is just further polarizes divide in turkey critics of the case was politically motivated and the country's judicial system lacks independence but several of today's defendants walked free so what does this tell us. what the government says the judiciary is totally independent get very angry at any accusations otherwise but critics both and specially of international observers make the point that present heard one and his government do appoint most of the judges in turkey and it's like the scene of the judiciary is under the direct

control of the government but having said that we have seen recently a number of key cases where judges have ruled against the government that in many cases has resulted in investigations of the judges and even prosecution so it's a very difficult place that judges face so they do work in many cases walk specially controversial cases like this a difficult legal type and the release of 7 could be another indication of the judges possibly trying to. flex some independence there were 2 foreign nationals amongst the defendants who were acquitted there must be a suspicion that international pressure played a. what has been said that given the fact that the european union's major leverage over turkey its membership be to turkey's membership into europe is all but over there is really little leverage that europe has over turkey given the fact turkey geostrategic position the gate keeper from michael's trying to enter europe is also a powerful card that turkey has over europe but having said that turkey is lobbying

very hard the european you need to open its stall for tourists to come into turkey particularly from germany that's the main provider of tourist into turkey and this possibly could be a gesture to berlin in its efforts to open up for german tourists to come to turkey right thank you for that dora jones and stumble. in football the german cup final takes place here in berlin on saturday leverkusen facing munich the game would normally bring thousands of fans to the german capital. means this year's going to be a subdued fat. chance of a double major whose meanwhile only their 2nd try. berlin's olympic stadium bereft of fans this year because of the pandemic. the city itself will also be without the usual throngs of football fanatics. who

her. it's a bittersweet final for many not least for the members of the only fun club in the german capital they rarely miss an away game the most loyal have backed by our for over 30 years. played in berlin which they seldom did except in the bundesliga we were always in the stadium. when you've got the chance again after 27 years to be in the final and to win the cup. when they're only german cup in 1993 with kiersten scored the winner in a one nil victory and the striking stole hopes for an end to the trophy drought for a club the tories for its ability to snatch 2nd place from the jaws of 1st. could or should have lifted one or 2 trophies we were always close we were in the final twice when you factor in the last league championships we should have won.

the current team is desperate for a 2nd german cup captain last bender left that in no doubt. the movies could all this year we have the chance and the ambition we'll approach it hungrily tomorrow so that we can finally bring a trophy back to live a cruise and again this was an engine that was well at least there should be so much as fear of the cops presentation as the brand new l.e.d. light system makes its debut at the olympic stadium. and the death of george floyd in police custody has sparked an ongoing conversation about racial injustice in the united states now fed ex has called on the washington redskins american football team to change their name the shipping giant is a case sponsor of the n.f.l. franchise and has the naming rights to the stadium but it's under pressure from investors the team name is see by many as a racial slur against native americans who've been advocating change for many years

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