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because no one should have to make up your own mind w made for mines the . this is the w and use life from the land and from the funeral. this helps of the 17 year old, killed by police. his death sparked days violence with costs and buildings destroyed. at almost 1300 people arrested in a fortnight of riots and official states, visits to germany. it has been postponed in response to the unrest. bluecross live
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to our 1st funding in paris for the lights. also coming up and evelyn's comes to terms with its colonial past. as the dentist king apologizes for his country's role in the slave trade, we go to amsterdam to hear what people that make of the country's troubled history . the monica jones. good to have you with us. the funeral for the 17 year old was killed by french police has been taking place in paris. moore has gathered in the northern suburb of non town to bid farewell to a 9 am a young man of north african heritage. he was fatally shot during a traffic stop on tuesday to the funeral k mazda days of violent protests over the killing activist, save the government, isn't doing enough to address long simmering issues of racially motivated police
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brutality. french president, in mind, with my call has council. the state to visit to germany because of the unrest is, was another knowledge of payoffs across french cities. the non to the suburbs of powers were teenager. now m was killed, the streets were list by claims. frances interior minister set the violence was guessing less than 10 with fewer fires and attacks on police station was over 1300 people were arrested on friday nights. the highest number so far their average age, 17 years old. the same is nile in paris and several other cities, numerous shops and businesses have been vandalized at elucidates. despite the presence of partisans effects for police officers on the streets,
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ronald said, we don't know why they attack stores. i don't see the point of taking it out on stools or anything else that's going on around here discussing. everything's been because it's not going to bring that young man back when fortunately, french football star came in and bought pay himself a product of a parisian suburb. much like non tear joined the course of voices calling for tom. many of us come from poor neighborhoods and we shed these feelings of pain and of sadness plus on top of this suffering. there is also now a process of self destruction unraveling the time for abundance was cease to give way to thoughts of mourning dialogue and reconstruction. the mourners have left flowers and messages for an eye of, of the place where he was killed, a place of sobs, stillness, amid the unrest area. i asked the correspondents on your phone to care about the
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situation and the power stuff, the of non to what monica. this tone is very much still on edge. um i was at the cemetery audio where the body is uh, was taking place now. the family have not had, let the us previously the media and public what, what kept taught? we, well, you know, uh outside the secretary and the host was accompanied by get ahold of young man on motor bikes and scooters. it was quite defense. i must be there. um, there was some arguments that broke out of a people, you know, assuming some of it with their phones. and i have to say in general, in many neighborhoods in the suburbs, the mode is really tends especially up to what's the media that has quite a bit of hostility audio. we will certainly get a neighborhood with the teenager lived. and we will also move on by a group of you said, you know, all camera would be broken if we don't go ahead. so, so it's difficult to work here as a journalist, but we did manage to speak to some residency. it's easier talking to or the residents,
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and many of them have said they want them in to the destruction of the volume instead of seeing what on them. but at the same time, they do understand they have expressed sympathy for the frustration that i'm paying and angle expressed by these young people in the summer. now course on here we could see heavy protest and riots not only in the french capital powers or the sub of off and on to, but also in other cities. is this still the case? that is correct. the one to go. i mean, the violence has not, contains 2 non fate has really spilled across from so here we go. 5 minutes in the southern city of march, say we over a few people were arrested, but also pots of virus. the city of the old has also been badly affected way, showing that there are several public buildings there, including a police station that was attacked overnight. me or of the all has appealed to the french government. he's off for additional nations. police force forces to, to come to that city. i'm and for security tonight, the rebuilding that the french and data ministry is now said that
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a special unit of 60 police officers, we'd be heading to the, all the specialized environments in the open areas of the pension. is certainly continuing also public transportation has been disrupted across cities and funds would be intuitive as to get out that might not really requesting you know, urging regional the parties to the end of buston prime services overnight. so more police force out there at the same time, french officials, including the president himself of appealed for. com. are there any signs that the protesters are listening? what do you think? what are you gonna be engler, respond by the shooting? i think that really runs deep. uh, i think it taps into really long standing grievances and many of frances portal most multiethnic suburbs with that you know, where people really feel that they are targeted by the police. they have subject to the racial profiling because of who they are because of how they look rather than what they do, the feeling runs really deep. and of course, many of these neighborhoods, you know, also have a major problems like bored school, for lack of a decent housing,
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a lack of jobs and prospects. and i think all these issues have been festering for a really long time in fonts. and i think it's kind of difficult for them to just, you know, kind of disappear. why dw correspondence on your phone? the current in montez? thank you so much and stay safe. or do you have a some, all the headlines from around the world? at least 48 people have been killed in a road accident in western can you lease? and the town off alone? the on the said a trucks carrying a shipping container the at off the road and plowed into several vehicles. another 30 people were seriously injured in the trash and have been taken to hospital treatment as the petro sanchez. as smock, the start of spain's 6 months, presidency of the european union with a visit to key. if sanchez met with you, training and presidents loving us to landscape, making clear the use continuing support for ukraine and the face of processing things. but that king villain alexander has apologized
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for his country's role in slavery benevolence. as commemorating the anniversary of the countries, abolition of slavery, speculation not been growing from dispatch of the king what to offer an apology on behalf of the royal house last year, the prime minister macro to apologized for the country's involvement in the slave trade of slavery. but stopped short of offering compensation to the sentence of enslaved people to say it is part of a wider reckoning with colonial histories in the west, the tough been sped in recent years by the black lives matter movement. dw correspondent, christina, no one was, has more to have a conversation about it's a beautiful summer day in amsterdam. and jennifer tosh is taking us on a tool to see symbols of that's going on your history in the city. the gable still shows a man named cornelius throng. he was an admiral, as the dutch fleets. and what's more significant is this black servant that's
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actually in the gables. still, he is holding the helmet of through them. we know he was a real person even though we don't know his name. this is an a replica of an 18 century cargo ship. this was a cargo ship of goods, but the same type of ship could be convert it to caring people as the car. 700 people could be transporting the ship, the song of the century, such merchants both and shipped about 600000 and slaves. people from africa during the transatlantic slave trade, they would take them to caribbean colonies like serena, hans christian post one. i'm still has traced his family tree back to his slave, own us in the colony to the upgrade. i can periods. and when you read the letters and the history of your family, the central figure will say, experts on the on to, to plantations and to get, or he had, i think about 250 slaves that was in the 19th century. but the story is part of an
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era that began in the 17th century when the netherlands was a global power and likely the richest country in the world. at the time. the dutch have historically referred to this period as the golden age. now the use of this term is being debated because its description doesn't address the violence and brutality and slaves people in did indulge colonies. there are different sort, it's not golden age. we are looking back to and is this in a periods which is the best of times in the verse of the times, pistol 5 for so few people and the verse of times for many people. adding this context to dutch history is also the objective of a new permanent dic submission in the troubling museum in amsterdam fix reasoning, it's called our colonial inheritance. we think that you cannot really understand
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during the day society, if you don't understand colonialism and how those structures worked. we believe that colonialism shaped the world that we live in today. and that's true for people here. many of the residents in this looking cost to borrow of m. sedan have roots in full in the colonies. generations later, in a policy still shapes their lives. we helped me things here and answer them se specifically talking about uh, what do we need when we talk about moving forward? and even if we receive a policy from the king, what does it mean? what people told us that the policy from the king will be your 1st step and what people really need is their children to have a professional education. there's children to get a job. the doctor with one of the last few p and nations to abolish slavery. and the king's apology comes later than that of other former colonial powers. the
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question is, what comes next to our correspondence? lucy schultz and the husband following, but that's king speech, and i'm to them. um, it was an emotion of speech. terrific. a strong apology. he was saying, uh today i stand here as the king, as a member of this government. and i personally apologized to understand as inputs is a bit into context. you have to all to see for it is also a bit of family history for the king because his family was in the form of kings. they have burned out of the slavery and um they have are, and what would be nowadays nearly 550000000 years 7. he says he also feels personally affected by this. then i think you can also understand it was that back in mind, but he was also saying to you, this apology was met is right across from people here in the audience. but also people that came to watch the speech. people that i talked to earlier and they said
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a lot of them told me that their ancestors are formally and slice people that they came through here, the king making that apology, and that this meadows for them. and what prompted to this apology. now why is the netherlands confronting it's colonial past now? yeah, the, the netherlands have been starting to also look at more into the history over the last couple of years. people have been telling me here. i think that the black life matters movement that has been also playing a pod, like in all over europe. and then a couple of like, as people have told me a couple of years ago, 54 or 5 years ago, they said it started the people to learn more about it. i'm also more in school, but they also still saying that a lot more should be done. and people who seem very willing to look more into the pos and, and just be aware and help people also to have
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a healing process starting. right. i mean, we heard that the a macro to apologized. now the king apologized. how does a judge feel about the way that the officials handling the issue and what do they expect from them? are people here said that there should be more and that of course the question that is lingering a question about reparations for that some people say, well, there must be reparations, also for healing process to start. but i also talked to him in here on the street, and he said, well, you know, mr. reparations business, very difficult because who would actually get the money? so this is already the apology is clearly only the beginning of the handling of the past years in the netherlands. right? dw correspondence, lucy schultz and they are reporting for us from saddam. let's see. yes, thank you so much. the european space agency has successfully launched its ground breaking euclid telescope from florida. telescopes lifted off
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on a space, ex rockets and separated from it about an hour after launching the mission is said to explore what's known as the doc universe and will be survey in galaxies. of to 10000000000 light years from us. the do any will take it 6 years on the 1st the data is expected to be released next year. the watching dw news coming up next slide from me um the team here in berlin. thanks for watching the one of mankind's old.

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