i'm rebecca richards welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump has addressed thousands of supporters at his 1st campaign rally in more than 3 months the event went ahead at an indoor arena intelsat oklahoma despite concerns it could become a super spreader event for the coronavirus but contrary to predictions of a sellout the $19000.00 seat venue was far from full. low in numbers but high on enthusiasm trump supporters ignored growing corporate 19 concerns to a rally for him in tulsa. i think we've been told so many different things about covert 19 the. how they are by just kind of tired of it really we didn't we didn't . through all this up for for all the other pandemics you know i'll say as i just don't see why i would act any different with this. trump defended years and ministrations handling of the pandemic even if cases across the united states surprise i said hundreds of thousands of lives we don't ever was even a man was he said high infection rates come with more testing. when you test of when you do testing to th

on rebecca richards welcome to the program and now the young black man has died in the us at the hands of police the police chief in atlanta georgia has resigned of the officer in question has been fired the victim or a shot brooks is said to have resisted arrest after failing a sobriety test security video showed he was shot while running from police and holding one of the officers stun guns. once again footage showing police in the us killing a black man this time at a wendy's fast food drive through an atlanta georgia. the death of 27 year old richard brooks sparked a new wave of unrest in the city with protesters setting fire to the wendy's restaurant where he was killed and blocking a highway. the city's police chief resigned and atlanta's mayor called for a change. i firmly believe that there is a clear distinction between what you can do and what you should do. i do not believe that this was a justify use of deadly force. demonstrations are continuing across the u.s. holding black lives matter signs and chanting no justice no peace protesters on saturday gathered in washington d

i'm rebecca richards welcome to the program brazil has now overtaken britain to become the country with the 2nd highest coronavirus death toll standing at nearly 42000 the government is largely opening up the economy despite warnings from experts that the country has yet to reach the pick of the infection spread. brazilians continue to dig mass graves to bury their dead in man now the largest city in the brazilian amazon the rows of crosses are a visual reminder of the heavy toll of the coronavirus has taken in the country brazil now has the 2nd highest covered 19 death toll in the world and then enviable position with both the daily fatalities and new infections mounting. the world health organization says the country is certainly under pressure but not yet overwhelmed. the situation in brazil is of concern the 27 areas are affected we've seen different rates were fiction there were clear hotspots and heavily populated areas there are clearly different impacts in different populations we've seen the impact the numbers on us books. overall the health system is still coughing in brazil t

i'm rebecca richards welcome to the program we begin in the u.s. where thousands of people are gathering intel to oklahoma for president donald trump's 1st campaign rally in more than 3 months the city has a history of racial tensions and there are fears that comes visit could spark violence the date of the event is also being criticized coming just a day off to june taint the day marking the end of slavery in the u.s. . black lives matter protesters gathered across the united states on friday to commemorate the end of slavery. donald trump's original plan to hold a campaign rally on that date 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 1021 the city's greenwood district was a bustling hub of successful black owned businesses known as black wall street it was razed to the ground by white mobs some 300 black people were killed and while our black men fought courageously to defend their homes and businesses to defend their families they were eventually. so outn

dot com i'm rebecca richards thanks very much watching. the stories that matter to. you but. whatever it takes. no running know. how to get a good. job you made for mines. one just one sees only one you feel like that get rid of the other is. an excerpt from a diary published anonymously as a woman in berlin in the spring of 1905 the author was repeatedly gang raped by soviet soldiers. western allied soldiers also committed mass rape during the liberation of berlin as so often women were treated as spoils of war a reward for the conquering soldiers granted to them by their superiors part of the collateral damage that is unavoidable in conflicts or so the claim. for more than 70 years this sexual violence remained hidden from the history books as did the rapes and massacres carried out in 1904 by soldiers of the french expeditionary corps during the italian campaign these 2 were expunged from the official accounts which recorded only their honor and glory. and one of the thousands of young women called comfort women by the japanese imperial army who in 1992 were finally reveal