at france twenty four .com. and the rest of the george fleets monday continued spark protests across the u. s. who is making a major public statement to address the growing crisis held talks witith governance. and law enforcement earlier this monday telling them to be more. aggressive to stand by for the latest from los angeles with france twenty four seventy six seventy. and america's notion nine thousands across the world have been protesting the unarmed black man's killing. from london to berlin rio de janeiro to vancouver protesters have been challenging i called

breeze. with some flouting coronavirus social distancing rules. also coming up is how on a p program deadlyy tropical stm amanda hits el salvador guatemala in some flooded areas soldiers of working alongside emergency personnel to rescue people. others are top stories of the sound from the twenty five son of chante thank you so much for joining us this monday. now we start with the u. s. which is been witnessed debate peaceful protests and chaos at demonstrations from washington dc to los angeles in the past days this after the merger on on on on black. george floyd at the hands of police in minneapolis last week. national guard troops have since been deployed in fifteen states to quell the violence and hundreds of people have been arrested. especially since the weekend all of u u have been susubjected to police brutality. meanwhile dononald trump has yet to address the nation an issue that has become

increasingly divisive among his advisers. now this arrest comes in the midst of an on going get coronavirus pandemic which has killed. more than a hundred thousand americans. i felt some of the wind spirit has more on the protests in washington dc. the reach of americans protesters. arrives on the doorstep of the white house monthly at square was the scene of clashes that continued into the early hours of monday morning despite the curfew in washington dc stipulating that people clear the streets until eleven pm. challenging in memory of george floyd the black man killed in police custody in minneaeapolis protesters were pushed back onto a main road behind the white house but their own to remain done did. this country is the most. they always used to say enough about. hey you

know. systematic. generally the streets of the u. s. capital acquires enough to dunk yet the protests quickly turned violent this commercial building was broken into and satellite by rises nearby restaurants got the same treatment with windows smashed and interiors vandalized. on friday similar protests prompted the president toto be moved tthe bunkerer of the whwhite house by secret service agents on sunday he tweeted calling for law and order. yett protesters had ann explicit responsee for the president one that was graffitied on to the neighboring st john's church and which left little to the imagination. for more on the protests in los angeles i'd like to bring in a correspondent and he said company he said thank you so much for being with us following a very heavy knowledge of finance what's the

latest where you are this monday. . santa monicica and downwntown l los angeles the ciy of santa monica is in clean u up mode it today after chaos struck on sunday. as looters broke into stores just blocks away from a mostly peaceful black lives matter protest. today businesses are closed and boarded up as volunteers. came out to help clean up the leftover debris from the looting and vandalizing that happened yesterday. and earlier yesterday evening police blocked off many of the main roads coming into santa monica which was the majajority of that looting- in an attempt to keep the violence and damage at a memo overnight. which does seem to have worked i watch other places in the country santa monica and los angeles didn't have the same overnight turmoil- that that was happening in other places. of the city of beverly hills in santa monica. experts you continue to curb our any looting or vandalism that may occur i have. have announced

curfews today starting at one pm for business sharks were a lot of the high end stores that had been looted. saturday and sunday are located as well as a four pm city wide limit. city wide curfew sorry a police arrested a roughly four hundred people i yesterday sunday. i am today i wonder the mayor of santa monica issued a statement that i think clearly sums up. what was happening here in los angeles and santa monica specifically he said quote on sundays there monica honored and respected and ultimately protected. a peaceful protest against institutional racism you're our solidarity with those honoring george ford was betrtred. as was his memory by opportunistic and organized criminals. the national. guard has also been deployed. to watch over the speed i and l. a. m. a are said he hope. that the- of the will be a short visit but there is no fixed timeline i it's interesting to note the last time the national

guard was deployed to a light. was during the rodney king riots in nineteen ninety two so it's interesting here in la it has there has been writing there has been looting- and- there has been vandalism. but at the same time it's very separate from the protest and a lot of officials all right we are a knowledge in this which is a good step- as mededia were were trying g to. to figure out the n new ones of what's going n and to knock l lump everybodyy gethther. . in the s sun i will just mentioned the opportunism as you mentioned there been widespread reports of looting confrontations with the police. he just said that we do need to be very cautious in terms of how we speak about those. that are bringing this level of violence to this movement. that's right so you like i was saying there i is a new ones hee and according to reports on twitter. there were two peaceful protest planned for today at twelve pm local time which is about an hour. but

they have both been canceled due to the destruction caused yesterday by people who were not part of the protest so they start at noon and they were very peaceful i was there in santa monica. the protesters yesterday and it was. it was inspiring honestly it was it was beautiful people were just. work usingng theheir their voics to be heard. organizes work very hard to keep the crowds focused on because- i. and walking through the streets with their message i. black lives matter justice for george floyd. they were also chanting the names. of other people in addition to george ford for you who have been. is just- who have been all right at the hands of police who have been targeted- but despite the organizer's attttempt obviously other people took advantage of the situation some officials were also saying that they thought that- a lot of the people that were looting- and the idolizing had actually come

in from other areas. without specifically in mind so they weren't even coming for the protest and that's again an important- distinction officials have been trying very hard to make that distinction because the protests here that i have been to both downtown in and in santa monica were peaceful- when they were when they were focused on on the cars and on- i'm- fighting against institutionalized racism. an important distinction to make that leasing company and like to thank you for reporting for us from los angeles. and of course not growing call for justice continues across the world in london thousands flocked to the u. s. embassy in defiance of stayed home covered nineteen orders. never abandons plans made gestures of support during matches on sunday and of course across new zealand demonstrations and vigils. were held let's take a look. the call for justice at going around the world. jadon sancho and damascus july- were among

several footballers in the german bundesliga today announced the tragic death of george floyd. john nields to celebrate his goal a reference to american footballer colin kaepernick who made a similar gesture during the national anthem to protest police brutality in twenty sixteen. it was the latest sign of the global outrage sparked by the killing of the fifty nine year old black man by minnesota police. in london where people marched in solidarity with americans for a second day. many denounced the consequences of systemic racism in the united states and beyond. everywhere in the world people people who choose to think. you still going on. the biggest races right now. around two thousand people marched on copenhagen's american embassy in a protest organized by a

local chapter of black lives matter. and in berlin hundreds stood with their fists raised to denounce racism and police brutality is thanks to make awareness. what is actually happening all six winners stats on your targets is just. actually putut a stop to this. n canada protests were staged across several major cities including montreal and toronto. prime minister justinn trudeau also weighed in on the matter. the black racism racism is real it's in the united states but it's also in canada. and we know people are facing systemic discrimination last wednesday a blackk canadian womomen fell frm her totoronto apartment balcony while alone withh police officers who had been calleded o her home. the family alleged that she was pushed and are now waiting for the conclusionsns of the investigation. moving on tropical storm amanda triggered

flash floods and landslides as it barreled through and silo and guatemala in nineteen fourteen even people dead thousands of peoplple have had o seek refuge in shelters. after their homes were destroyed and this is the first major storm of the pacific hurricane season in central america. the aftermathhf tropicalal stotorm amanda streets submerged hundreds of homes flooded while others have been totally destroyed. mud slides and collapsing buildings caused by the storm have already c claimed lives most of them in the capital san salvador. the fourth floor of the it was. photo in order for. someone who handled the case. i don't know the first one i must. el salvador's president has declareded a state of emergencny estimating t the damage at some

twtwo hundred millionn dollars almost 90% of the population is at risk from flooding and landslides in the central american country due to its geography. the fatal storm. well some of f the durango simoe on sunday and some forty m miles an hour and couldld affect weststern honduraras and southen mexico as it moves inland. for those living on its pulse rising water levels and now the biggest cause for concern. why don't i go see also for failing not man four things about us this state for their for cardio or you thehey love but a also in the- parking lot i want to seal common carrier cononceivablele.r about eleven point three. the law system river in glass. also but by follow the heavy rain. amanda is the specifics to being. in this year's hurricane season. now also partially lifting its current of arsenanal down thiss monday thailand among the venunues b being reopened

cinemas and massage parlors interestingly it from couountry may have been spat the west but its economy is heavily reliant on tourism and it continues to south. the barriers coming down with some of thailand's best known sandy beaches re open to the public monday. social distancing measures still in effect with bathers ordered to keep at least one meter apart not a problem for this early riser to relocation i got. a mail from a bay near the city of david but not really vulnerable point to for my daughter guests on sees be less so to them about a sudden case of any law. thailand has begun lifting coronavirus lockdown restrictions for the first time in two months as official data shows new covert nineteen infections slowed in may. at cinemas temperature checks for movie goers deep c cleaningsgs y crews in hazmat suits and large gaps between occupied seats it

all adds up to a huge drop in capacityty theaters though are hoping that extra caution now will translate into better business soon. i think people will come out to the cinema and learning i in the new normal and in one state i u understand that is- safety measure in place and to tell their friends family and people will keep coming back to the city in the futures. also re opening monday thailand's renowned to traditional massage parlors the kingdom appears to hahave been spared the worst of the viruses impact so far recording just over three thousanand known cass with only around sixty deaths but the economic effects from months of lost tourism income are proving severe. the sector's revenues dropped 40% in the first quarter with the worst expected for the current quarter for now tyler is famed life may remain closed. . when they will reopen remains.

unknown i was frankly without. that's it from and the team at the sound you some for watching twenty four please stay safe. hello and welcome to access asia i'm thomas waterhouse and his what's coming up. afghan authorities say repeat violations of kobe n nineteen lockckdown measures of making. t difficult situation even more difficult. aid agencies battled to prop up the struggling healthcare system. scientists warn the outbreak could push one of the world's rarest great apes closer to extinction we bring you a report from indonesia's tropical forests. and it was an epic pedal home after the virus left them out of work an indian girl cycles one thousand two hundred kilometers making good on her promise to safely return injured father. but as the corona virus spreads in

afghanistan the alarm sounded by international and local ngos is ringing louder with both the economy on the healthcare system already bruised by years of conflict. aid agencies say benefits of a humanitarian crisis off fast becoming a reality our team on the ground explains. i would choose a crack to the backs of their bicycles the move by many circus for children's team is on a new mission they have to please the juggling balls and circus props with being think it's. a. hundred it is gone and his colleagues joined forces with shopkeepers in the capital to impose social distancing on customers. in afghanistan the

pandemic is accelerating. as the vols rages on between the taliban and the afghan government. the islamic state group also continues its deadly attacks. on the best off me on gunmen targeted this maternity hospital run by doctors without borders in kabul. twenty four people including women and children were killed despitete domestica dog medicine continues its activities throughout the country msf is let's say to a certain extent used to work in difffficult circumstances. at least he's very new for all of us i it's a difficult situation for all of us. this camp in the outskirts of kabul is home to hundreds of families displaced by the war for team used to come here to entertain the children but since the start of the pandemic he's no longer here to play. we are here to distribute the water tank give it to the idps

on teach them to wash your hands properly. time to be away from corona. this message is. for you just a second okay. as you can about. dissipate storm systems yeah there's also within in this camp hygiene is a major issue. although my health was really lower than those of women with us over for dinner couldn't. a hundred. in kabul the epicenter the disease cool with nineteen cases are increasing according to a recent study one third of the city's residents are contaminated. well this week's guest is a chinese dissident artist who is known by his nom de plume bob dole tom one of his latest works titled a new tank which was madee in supuppot of hong kong activist was unveiled this month in front of the danish parliament building he joins us now. from melbourne

australia thank you very muchch for being with us here on france twenty four at first of all why all political cartoons anand satire so powerful to you. well sir tie cartoon h has this magnificent power to deconstruct the authority of tearing the l like china it empowers people to telling them. p politicians our leaders are no gods day shall be challenged a all the timee and artitists are tryrying to hehel. any of the actisist or dissident to express their criticism against the authority but t also- i think political cartoooon hasas this humor to cocomforting to peoplele who arn disconnected i sepeparation of protest helelping people e to he aa b brief join is. they have to fight. all day now. no criticism of beijing is forced you to work underground and in exile tells about what life is

a dissidents has been like. i just want to be an artist- but because o of my artiststs focus that said getet t to me- subjece to this. verery harsh c conditis that i have to leave the very- cautious life that actually en outside o of ausustralia- outstside of china soundss miles away from c china the i ice do u have to woworrying aboutut like being follolowed by p possible asians my internenet or mobile phone cords cyberattack or the time i have to use vpn to get access. to internetet- e even outside of china and t this is just a partt of thehe reality tt i haveve lived in plus there are fafamilies of mimine in in china ththat harassed all the time- sr i have i don't think anyone would envy my life. there were see e in the ongoingng pro democrcracy movovement retururno the streets of hong kong recently china's parliament is

now overwhelmingly approved directly imposing national security legislation on. hong kong how d do you see the sisituation in the city panning out the- i think that is a very dangerous move that showing the world chinese government do not really care about human rights or democracy. is we used to see hong kong as- as a- a light house for a possible changes. for mail and china may be because hong kong is different- bringing you know the hope of democracy and freedom for this country. but now all of this has been bankrupt the so called one country two systems is totally dead. ends i think this is basically the last nail in the coffin false- hong kong's freedom and autocracy- art. and hongng kong's autonomy sir this is really a bad moment for all of us i have to emphasize on this status. hong kong's free

now are not just for the people in that city it is also frontline. of battling between- authoritarian society and a free society like all of us are enjoying now sir it's really bad news for me and for everyone of us. know chinina is of c course the epicenter county wheree this whole coated nineteen pandemic stems from what is yoyour view of beijing's managegement's. o oice healthth cris. . well obvioiously it's very problematic inning humane we all know in the very beginning china trying to best to covering the pandemic or the outbreak is silence people like doctor lee w will now. who are the whistle blower doctors. trying to youu know warnrning to people a around himim then the china is moving wasas this very brutalal looking down we'll see the prizee thatt the residency wise eight- and also it is something that we can never trust. any of the numbers being

opened by y the chinese authorities- i i never trustst a second for the dicice roll older in f fashion a number is being published by the chinese authorities. i would have to say that the whole world now is sufferering because of lack of transparency because of because of lack of freedom of speech- i think componentnt of the world shouldn't united's. to criticize china's handle of this car- crisis and to askingng the responsibility. from the chinese government. okay the chinese i'm today in called by ta thank for joining us here on access asia. moving up. yeah the. population as a growing risk with centuries racing to protect them brian quinn reports. they may be isolated

in some of the world's most remote tropical forests. degrere apes are themselves now threatened by corona virus religious chimpmpanzees and orangutans all susceptible to contracting covert nineteen just like their human cousins. these gibbons b. been captured and brougught to the sanctuary for protection before being re released into the e forests of borneo. the center's french founder like everyone else must now be disinfected and have his temperature taken before getting near the apex. the food that arrives by boat is carefully prepared to be free so there's a fifty. just only so. i think it is a big deal if you make. the final step just like doctors and hospital the caretakers don personal

protective equipment from head to toe. the mobile they keep posting the nude yeah but you could you communities to pull anybody she wore a peaveyy demo to thought you must opt out models dejected cause was physical pop opus collisionon cm twenty all signage. also seemed to committed you man. b. b. c. both of which. does some proven. dinner is for. so safely. on the same island of indonesia are also found orang attends a species in critical danger of extinction half of their population on borneo has disappeared in the past twenty years here an ngo shelters babies whose parents have been killed by poachers o orang intends to contest the coronanavirus for now no fatal cases have been reported among their numbers but concern is growing. already so few if thehe call we proved to be at least a disease from which they died.

fromom respiratory p problems tt coululd be the final coursee towardss extinction there iss oe bright sidee to this s shared vulnerability if f a coronavivis vaccine for humans is found it will likely also. protect the great apes. finally it's been described as a beautiful feet of insurance and love but for the indian teenager at the heart of our next story there was simply no other option. she peddled hundreds of kilometers to her home village from new delhi after the coronavirus left her and her father out of work peter o'brien has more. one thousand two hundred clematis further than the distance from paris to berlin. attendees in hot weather on the second hand city bike pleaded with her dad and all her belongings. it should be on local television is the fifteen year old girl who's achieved just that writing from gurugram in new delhi to her home

village in the northeastern states of bihahar. mymy n name s judy kamari we have come from gary graham. my fathther had an accident so i brouought my fathr hey with m my bike. kamamari a secondary school students moved from her village in jananuary to take care of her father. he's unable to walk and earned a living as a rickshaw driver. along with millions of other migrant workers he was left jobless off to india was suddenly l locked d down in mar. with no money to pay rent or buy food and public transport halted kamari p peddled them bak to that village surviving on foodod and water from strangers. and only o once accepting a shoe lift on a trtruck. the remarkabe journey made headlines and called the attention of the cycling federation of india which is offered kamari the chance to try out for the national team. that's all for me on the access asia team to stay tuned to france twenty

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