in bristol protestors have pulled down the statue of the 17th century slave trader, edward colston.e protests over the death of george floyd have continued in cities across america — all of them peaceful. in washington, thousands gathered in the biggest demonstrations there in 12 days. the number of people worldwide who have died from coronavirus has passed 400,000. no new coronavirus deaths have been reported in scotland in the past 2a hours for the first time since lockdown began. but the uk death toll has risen by 77. a member of the scientific group advising the uk government says he wishes the country had gone into lockdown earlier. i wish we had gone into lockdown earlier. i think that has cost a lot of lives, unfortunately. i'm sure that taking into account everything we knew at that moment, my view is that we made the right decisions at the right time. and in a week's time places of worship in england will be opened for individual prayer. hello, and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and acros

the sign beneath the statue described colston as virtuous and wise.ere has been talk about putting another plaque onto the plinth to reflect colston‘s involvement in the slave trade. but there have been all kinds of arguments about what words and phrases would be used on it. so yesterday some took things into their own hands. but even as the statue was being disposed of, edward colston continued to divide. as a political leader, it's myjob to understand all those feelings, and try and bring the city together, you know, in the face of those clashing understandings. colston‘s statue was thrown into bristol docks, where his ships used to sail. racing driver lewis hamilton said on social media that it should be left beneath the water, like the bodies of so many slaves who died. but others think it should be put on display. i see that now as an artefact, an historical artefact. i think it's part of bristol's history. i think the damage that was done to it is also part of its history and bristol's history, and i think it belongs in the museum, where it can

300 years after his death, edward colston's fall from grace.tol, celebrated as a merchant, politician and philanthropist. now, reviled for his part in the slave trade. that statue represents years of oppression, it represents years of hurt and just a lot of emotion and hatred that has been built up inside of us, that we have internalised for years, and that coming down today hopefully signifies change, hopefully we have sent a message, notjust to everyone in the uk or the usa, worldwide. cast in bronze, now daubed with graffiti, one of bristol's most famous sons. some protesters knelt on his neck, a reference to the death of george floyd, across the atlantic. this had begun as a black lives matter demonstration, but it ended in the historic docks, where colston's ships once sailed. gone! jasmine is a trainee teacher. what do you say to somebody who lives in bristol who is horrified by the fact this is gone? people might say it's vandalism, but black people have to walk these streets, black slaves built bristol. we have to walk the streets and s

we have to walk the streets and see that statue of colston every day. that is what it means.ce to all black people. there has been a growing campaign in recent years to remove colston‘s name from buildings across the city, but many feel destroying the statue was the wrong way to do it. tonight, there was a small counter protest, claiming local history had been trashed. sheer vandalism and disorder, is completely unacceptable, and it is right, actually, that the police follow up on that and make sure that justice is taken and undertaken with those individuals that are responsible for such disorderly and lawless behaviour. avon and somerset police say they deliberately took a low—key approach to the whole protest, due to sensitivities, safety and social distancing. some people will look at this and think, "hang on a minute, you should have intervened and stepped in and at least avon and somerset police say they deliberately took a low—key approach to the whole protest, due to sensitivities, avon and somerset police say they deliberately took a low—key approach to the whole prot

but first, our correspondent chi chi izundu reports the statue of edward colston, a 17th century slaver. erected in bristol city centre since 1895, it had been the subject of a petition to have it removed. but this is where protesters left it. police say they are now investigating the criminal damage of the statue of the man estimated to have bought and sold 80,000 people. it represents years of hurt and just a lot of emotion and hatred that has been built up inside of us that we've internalised for years and that coming down today, hopefully, signifies change. black lives matter! the demonstrations around the uk had been largely peaceful. in glasgow, protesters tried to maintain a two metre distance from each other. i think the turnout‘s amazing. it's really inspiring and it's amazing to see people already taking social distancing measures seriously and doing the best they can to stay safe today. after a week of protests, thousands more have decided to take to the streets across cities in the uk, but in london, they've decided to make the us embassy their focus. being black is not a c

edward colston. hello there.ekend, cool northerly winds, some rain and a good deal of cloud around as well. interestingly, at loftus in redcar in cleveland, there's been more rain in the last week than we've had during the whole of spring. the start of the new week, though, looks a lot drier, the winds won't be as strong either. that's because we've got this area of high pressure, at least the nose of it heading towards the uk. it may not last long, but for a while, it will keep those weather fronts at bay from the north—west of the uk. now, many places will have a dry day on monday, the sunshine coming and going. there'll still be a few light showers blown onto some of those north sea coasts. during the afternoon, watch out for some heavy slow—moving showers in wales and the south—west of england. but on the whole, a lot of dry weather around. temperatures not very different from what we had on sunday, but we'll find that the winds are a good deal lighter today. and those light winds continue into the evening. i

in terms of the statue of colston, people in bristol had complained about it for a very long time.fact, i had complained about it for a very long time. infact, i remember had complained about it for a very long time. in fact, i remember many yea rs long time. in fact, i remember many years going to listen to tony benn speaking, and he said he felt uncomfortable being in a hall named after someone who had made a fortune out of slavery. i mean, that was a long time ago, and there is a point where you say, on the one hand, may it is time we stopped erecting statues and naming streets after long forgotten councillors and aldermen and local worthies, but you mentioned millicent fawcett, shaun, and that was only unveiled a year ago, maybe 18 months ago. now, you know, she was a great heroine, if you like, of the women's suffrage movement, but she also had a history that doesn't do her proud in her role in inspecting the concentration camps during the boer war, and some of the comments that she put in her report were nothing other than racist. so, you know, you could argue that she is as

edward colston was before today started?think this is a bit of a distraction from the very serious issues that these people are protesting about. it's all very well for pretty patel to go to the daily mailand for pretty patel to go to the daily mail and get for pretty patel to go to the daily mailand geta for pretty patel to go to the daily mail and get a quick hit auto she is on crime but i want to remind her that since 2010, police budget seven england have been cut by 19%, and what's that means is that the police have less resources to do things like community policing which isn't just something, but one of the ways you can defuse tensions in communities, and it's better to deal with intelligence led policing, so the whole thing for me as a massive distraction from the issue being brought forward. i've no idea why there is a statue. it's 2020, i have no idea why there is a statue of a slave trader in bristol in the first place. as i say, i think it's an u nfortu nate place. as i say, i think it's an unfortunate distractio

those protests has been the toppling of a statue in the port city of bristol a monument to edward colston a slave trader whose wealth helped build that city statues and monuments are built to memorialize to remind people. about history and who should be revered when those statues fall they indicate a shift in social consciousness a change in what people want to see honored colston's fall offended those who say you cannot erase the past and that those who profited from slavery should not be judged by today's moral standards tell that to the thousands of british demonstrators not just people of color who are out to tell the real story about britain's role in the formation of the slave trade the legacy with. our starting point this week is. the black lives matter protest in bristol was not the biggest not in the u.k. and certainly not compared to the demonstrations that inspired the ones rippling across the united states what it lacked in scale that it made up for in meek bristol is one of the places that slavery got its start from traders like edward calls. he grew wealthy dealing in human

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racism protesters took down a statue of a 17th century slave trader the bronze monument to edward colston was later dragged across the streets and thrown into a nearby river. in libya forces from the un backed government have reached the city of sirte as they continue to drive after his fighters further to the east the warlords ceasefire plan announced with his egyptian allies on saturday was quickly rejected by government leaders in tripoli. reports from their. proposing a peace deal in cairo egypt's president abdel fatah has sisi with libya's warlord honey for have to. who's 14 month old fence if to capture the libyan capital collapsing this week announcing it is time for a ceasefire and old foreign fighters to leave a comment that if it were barbara. the initiative aims to guarantee a ferry presentation of libya's 3 provinces and a presidential council elected by the people under the supervision of the united nations to manage libya's leadership for the 1st time in the country's history but the proposal was swiftly turned down by the tripoli based administration the head of the high co

we've seen what happened with edward colston, the statue in bristol. out of the water to be placed in a museum. increasing concerns over the weight that history is portrayed in this country and globally. exactly. ithink in the run—up to what was expecting was going to be a very tension fuelled recount with that black lives matter protest land for hide part —— hyde park which has been delayed, and also threats of far right groups coming to protect those statues. the guardian's chosen to focus on other statues in other cities that are also kind of coming under threat. in particular, a number of papers pick up particular, a number of papers pick up on the head of the scouting movement. he was also associated with racism, homophobia and support for adolf hitler. there's been a big i’ow for adolf hitler. there's been a big row over whether or not it's right. there's also another statue in bristol of a black playwright, who is also had corrosive liquid thrown at him. i don't think we will see this debate end anytime soon, although it's interesting that black

protesters pull down a statue of the 17th century slave trader edward colston it had stood there since 8095 demonstrators then threw it into a nearby harbor with hundreds of people chanting black lives matter slogans the move was condemned by the government. is no justification pulled by axel and when it comes to exercise in people's voices and off to see their particular issues and concerns there are many albums to which those voices and concerns can be raised and made well earlier the home secretary there also claim that people are distracted from the cause of the protest several other politicians have called for criminal charges against those responsible however many activists claim the statue was inappropriate and should have been removed long ago we put the issue up for debate . why people should want to defend having a statue of a man who represents the genocide of my ancestors and i would ask and i would ask your next speak would he defend having for example the commandant of the japanese prison camp who had been responsible for $20000.00 plus english deaths what do you defend t

edward colston had been a divisive figure for many a year in bristol.ing is in the shadow of a big tower. it is in the shadow of a big tower. it is called the colston tower. they have been calls for years for his name to go. the most devising thing of all was undoubtedly the statue that, and still yesterday, stood on that, and still yesterday, stood on that plinth. they have been calls for it to go, the local mp said she had wanted it out, but no decision had wanted it out, but no decision had yet been taken. that now has happened, the statue is in the harbour, as to whether the police will really take any divisive action, yesterday they start —— stood back to stop they decided it would be best to keep away, keep on the fringes and make sure nobody was hurt. they didn't intervene. they have said they will gather footage and look at what occurred. obviously pressure from the home secretary, she would like to see them take further action. we will have to see as yet what steps the police take. just to let you know, as everybody, we will be speaking to the

we have to walk the streets and see that statue of colston every day. that is what it means.a kick in the face to all black people. there has been a growing campaign in recent years to remove colston‘s name from buildings across the city, but many feel destroying the statue was the wrong way to do it. tonight, there was a small counter protest, claiming local history had been trashed. sheer vandalism and disorder, is completely unacceptable, and it is right, actually, that the police follow up on that and make sure that justice is taken and undertaken with those individuals that are responsible for such disorderly and lawless behaviour. avon and somerset police say they deliberately took a low—key approach to the whole protest, due to sensitivities, safety and social distancing. some people will look at this and think, "hang on a minute, you should have intervened and stepped in and at least challenged the behaviour that was happening." this was a very difficult policing operation. there is a lot of context that sits around it and i believe we did the right thing. no regrets?

bristol in the west of england a statue was torn down of a prominent 17th century slave trader, edward colston said to have transported tens of thousands of people from africa across to the americas. >>> i'm shasta darlington in sow paulo. different social movements joined forces to protest against racism and against president jaire bolsonaro. in brasilia and sao paulo they held up signs by george floyd and many civilians killed by police. >>> i'm ben wedeman in roam's piazza del popolo where thousands come out to express their solidarity with the black lives matter movement in the united states. this is the largest demonstration i've seen in piazza del popolo in some time. earlier one of the persons making a speech listed all of the victims of police brutality in the united states and this is

the police minister condemns protestors after a statue of edward colston, a prominent 17th century slaverader, was pulled down. we resolve these issues in this country not by people showing up with ropes and tools and committing criminal damage. you know, we have to have a sense of order and democracy in the country. why in 2020 are we having statues and symbols and names of streets that remind us of a very dark place in history? we'll be getting reaction to a weekend of protests live from westminster, and from washington. also this lunchtime... new rules requiring all people arriving in the uk to self—isolate for m days have come into effect but there's confusion as many ask, how will it work? from head to home i'm going to use public transport so if i am a carrier now, how will they control it? i think it makes no sense because in germany at the rate is less than here and to infect it is more likely here in the uk than in germany so for me it makes no sense. us authories have formally requested prince andrew answer questions as a witness in the criminal probe into sex offenderjeffrey e

on sunday, angry demonstrators in bristol tore down a statue of slave trader edward colston.ion has turned to other public statues, including one in oxford. :report oxford, the latest flashpoint in a national clamor for change. this battlug t has been going on for years. sissel rhodes -- cecil rhodes represents, for these protesters, the unacceptable face of british history. they want his statue gone. >> he's basically a crook who went to other countries andco exploited thostries for his own gain. he doesn't stand for my values, and i don't want to see him celebrated. >> i'm here with my little sister. we are from botswana. my mom's father was made stateless by an apartheid government that was in part started and definitely helpeyto perpetuate rhodes. >> i'm from germany myself. i know how important it is to look critically into the there are certain parts of all cultures that are quite negative. reporter: the killing of george floyd has spked protests around the wld and across the u.k. in bristol this weekend, this ended with the controversial toppling of the stute of slave

after a statue of edward colston was toppled, attention has now turned to other public statues.the imperialist cecil rhodes is taken down too. from there, reeta chakra barti reports. oxford, the latest flashpoint in a national clamour for change. this battle has been going on for years. cecil rhodes, a 19th—century imperialist represents for these protesters, the unacceptable face of british history and they want his statue gone. he is basically a crook, in my opinion, who went to other countries and exploited those countries for his own game. he doesn't stand for my values and i don't want to see him celebrated. i am here with my little sister, we are from botswana and her father was made stateless by an apartheid government that was in part started and definitely helped to perpetuate by cecil rhodes. i am from germany myself, black, half white. i know how important it is to look critically into the history and there are certain parts of all cultures which are quite negative. the killing of george floyd has sparked protests across the world and the uk. in bristol this weekend,

see that guy right there so colston lived in the 1700s he became one of the richest men in the world by trading lives west african slaves protesters think he should come down and boy did they ever make him come down look at that the point is this with each and every country all over the world these protests take. a different perspective they have their own wrinkle based on the history of that country and the vents that have taken place in that country or the amount that are taking place there now here with more on the protests as r.t. correspondent charlotte dubin. well that's right across you there were protests all over the weekend organized mainly by black lights masses groups here in europe who wanted to rally against what they see as being systematic racism within the forces of rule and on saturday here in paris thousands of people came up close to the u.s. embassy which had been secured by barricades as they chanted for the races with the police now there were also protests being held at the countryside just to be in space and. also in the capital beltway in brussels. around 10

a statue of the slave trader edward colston was toppled in bristol on sunday and attention is turninghave long been demands for oriel college, oxford, to remove an image of the imperialist cecil rhodes, and those protests have new energy now. from oxford, reeta chakra barti reports. oxford, the latest flashpoint in a national clamour for change. this battle, though, has been going on for years. cecil rhodes, a i9th—century imperialist, represents for these protesters the unacceptable face of british history and they want his statue gone. he is basically a crook, in my opinion, who went to other countries and exploited those countries for his own gain. he doesn't stand for my values and i don't want to see him celebrated. so i am here with my little sister, we are from botswana, our mum's from botswana, and actually her father was made stateless by an apartheid government that was, in part, started and definitely helped to perpetuate by cecil rhodes. i'm from germany myself, i'm black, half white, and i know how important it is to look critically into the history and there are certain

colston lived in the 1700s he became of the richest men in the world by trading west african slaves protesters thought it should come down and boy did it ever as they threw it in bristol in the water the point is that each country around the world has protests taking place that have their own wrinkle if you will based on their own history their own view of events here now with more on these global protests as r.t. correspondent charlotta been skiing. well that's why it's a cruel sirup there were protests all over the weekend. mainly by black life masses groups here in europe who wanted to rally against what they see as being systematic racism within the forces of rule and on saturday here in paris thousands of people came up close to the u.s. embassy which had been sick you would find barricades as the chanting for an end to racism within the police now there were also protests being held in other countries just to be in space and. also in the capital belgium in brussels where around 10000 people came out to the streets many people going loose in the last 3 weeks of exploiting. and

in bristol, edward colston will be fished from the sea and placed in a museum to be a reminder of theect of public veneration. bute house, the official residence of scotland's first minister, was once home to men who owned slave plantations in the west indies. today, nicola sturgeon said it is time to take a hard look at the way our streets continue to honour those who profited from human misery. i live in glasgow. i represent a constituency in glasgow, and i've heard both opinions. rename all of the streets on the one hand, which i've got a lot of sympathy for, but on the other hand, don't brush under the carpet the history, the shameful part of our country's history. the people who put henry dundas on his column 200 years ago wanted future generations to know that, in his day, he was revered, that the values he embodied and defended were regarded by his contemporaries as great public virtues. many argue that it is precisely to remember that that's what our country used to be like, that he should stay where he is. if you take the statue down, you will be removing some of the evidence

there is a long ark from bristol, where the st statue of edward colston was toppled and through to the americas, where the enslaved grew up in the caribbean and the united states and they feel the knee of racist hostile police officers on their neck, both in the americas, in the caribbean and then the descendants in the uk. and we're saying, and notjust plaque people, 70 —— black people, 70% of the marches are attended by young white people, who say it is not in our name. we see the connection between what happened to an african 4,000 miles away and the people we are glorifying in the country and there are statues black lives matter have drawn up a hit-list lives matter have drawn up a hit—list of 60. but i think in anticipation of further demonstrations for statues for people like cecil rhodes. i'm not sure if you went to oxford. yes i did. were you offended when you passed the college and saw that statuary day? —— statue every passed the college and saw that statuary day? -- statue every day? i didn't go to that college, i wasn't aware, i knew of the the rhodes scholars. we had no so

and i think that the issue with the edward colston statue is that for a0 yea rs edward colston statue took the weekend for that to happen. whilst ba nksy weekend for that to happen. whilst banksy has his opinions, i think the communities within the bristol area should be given the respect they deserve in order to decide how they feel it should be dealt with. again, asi feel it should be dealt with. again, as i said, the best thing for that statue would be for it to be in a museum. does that give people the right to tear statues down if they don't agree with them? it was a council decision to retrieve it from the harbour. surely that must be the right way forward. absolutely. i am not condoning violence. the violence that has been done to black people over centuries, i'm not condoning that either. i'm not saying like for like. but we must understand the context we are in. this is something that black people, the racism we have experienced over hundreds and hundreds of years, and every single time that we use reason, every single time that we try and debate, nothing happens. and i'm hop

he grew up in the shadow of colston's statue. and he watched it topple. >> systematic slavery has got to stop, it's imbedded deep in the roots of the education system, the public sectors. it's all got to change. >> we wouldn't have a statue of hitler, so why would you have a statue of him, you know what i mean? and it's just kind of like, when people were saying they don't want to take aware their culture and their roots, that's what you got books for. that's what the linary thebrary internets there for. you don't need a statue. the institutions need to change. we know that they're broken and don't work. >> let by prime minister boris johnson who in his former job as a journalist used a colonial era racial slur to mock africans, the british government is threatening to bring in up to ten-year jail sentences for what it calls desecration of history, but whose history? our polling found black people were more than twice as likely to support the removal of those statues by protesters as white people and almost three times as likely

in bristol, edward colston will be fished from the sea and placed in a museum, to be a reminder of thehan an object of public veneration. bute house, the official residence of scotland's first minister, was once home to men who owned slave plantations in the west indies. today, nicola sturgeon said it is time to take a hard look at the way our streets continue to honour those who profited from human misery. i live in glasgow. i represent a constituency in glasgow, and i've heard both opinions. rename all of the streets on the one hand — which i've got a lot of sympathy for — but on the other hand, don't brush under the carpet the history, the shameful parts of our country's history. the people who put henry dundas on his column 200 years ago wanted future generations to know that, in his day, he was revered, that the values he embodied and defended were regarded by his contemporaries as great public virtues. many argue that it is precisely to remember that that's what our country used to be like, that he should stay where he is. if you take the statue down, you will be removing some of

in the same way edward colston was a slave, the fa ct way edward colston was a slave, the fact his money of that statue there a danger this issue of that statu e gets there a danger this issue of that statue gets bogged down in committees and discussions. do you think you should bypass that, take it down, and, if you like, talk about it later? i don't think it is as straightforward as that. yes, it would be a greatjob for somebody to point a finger and say, i like that statue, i don't like that statue, there is a history associated with that one and not so much of a history with that one. that's not how it should be done. there are some statues that should not be up there, quite frankly, and i absolutely agree with young people about that. and those decisions could be taken very quickly. but there is a more complex history here. what sadiq khan is doing in terms of setting up the commission and what other mayors are doing in terms of setting up commissions, i think that's really important. what we teach in terms of our history, so many of those young people say they don't understand, the

been completely overshadowed by edward colston for many years not just the statue but colston all the main music center streets it's a multicultural city people will literally be in offended de lay and not for anything like this was a major major. and i think that it was sort of sweet karmic retribution to see him thrown into the dock just as many many people died on the crossings that he made lots of money from a site for what he represented though could this be a dangerous precedent to set a lang statute ripple down if people disagree with the course or absolutely as i say i can't really necessarily condone the methodology but having said that it's a great deal of frustration a great deal of frustration and the truth is people just this weekend alone has suddenly learned about black slavery in a way that they hadn't learned before so there's a great deal of education that has come from this act and sometimes great acts of activism have to take place they appealed repeatedly they signed petitions they appealed to the council nobody was listening what would what would they left with a

activist in bristol in southwest england doubled a statue of now infamously brutal slave trader edward colston many in the lead to an subaltern classes attacked police for failing to uphold the law against protesters u.k. labor leaders against alma said black lives matter activists were completely wrong to remove it but some say is that he was putting racism on a pedestal and that it is britain's education system and mendacious history teaching that now needs to be toppled joining me now is someone who has pushed for greater diversity among university students and was the 1st black british in was can president of the national union of students and co-founder of students not suspect me about here joins me now by skype from laden in the netherlands thank you so much for coming on malea so as i said here stamina and boris johnson the prime minister condemning those who brought down that monument celebrating a slave trader in bristol what did you make of it i think so you. choose to use air time at a time when the government has effectively waged war continues to wait for brown and black bodies th

protests reached the city on sunday and found events in the 125 year old bronze figure of it would colston. that such a represents years of oppression represents years of horror. and just a lot of emotion and hatred often sort of all starts we've internalised for years and calming down today hopefully signifies change. in central london clashes broke out between police and black lives matter demonstrators. the statue of former british prime minister winston churchill was also vandalised the scuffles came towards the end of what had been mostly peaceful protests to. in tens of thousands of the capital rallying to get them police brutality after the death of black man george floyd while in police custody in the u.s. . the british government condemned the violence as well as protests going ahead despite the coronavirus pandemic. the you know we respect the right to protest but we do not respect and it is completely on the awful to participate in acts of disorder vandalism violence under souls and we are in the midst of a health pandemic right now and under the rules that we have put in place

slavery and colonialism british protesters topple the statue of 17th century slave trader edward colston and dumped it into the bristol harbor this week lawrence lee reports on some of the other statues that may become targets. what's a statue for the basic assumption is a celebration of the life and achievements of someone regarded as historically significant which explains without the slightest question why supporters of black lives matter in the english port city of bristol did what they did after all in the 17th century when britain was an empire and would colston grew rich from african slavery using ships out of crystal harbor how appropriate stick these people to tom paine and his ideas to see combat damage but at the same time as our shared your aunt is the 2nd of you know jamaicans some point were enslaved and i can't say that that statue is anything fancy to me in the middle of the city other significant figures in british politics are equally clear that the statues are a standing insult to people of color imagine what it's like as a black person to walk past a stash of somebody