fears over salat there in houston texas where the world is getting a final farewell to george for all of her thing. we're george floyd's death came as no surprise to spike lee the oscar winning director of films such as malcolm x. and do the right thing has made a short film which makes connections between floyd's death and what the filmmaker sees as institutionalized violence and racism in america's police forces he told the wy this time he is hopeful for change. spike lee's response to the death of george floyd was to make this film editing footage of floyd's killing with the chokehold death of america garner and 2014 and with scenes from his own 1989 film do the right thing the writing was based upon the real love chokehold murder the artist might was through and then the anything about. the simple and brutal message is this is happened before if nothing changes this will happen again. but lee does see a difference this time in the broad group of americans whose response to george floyd's death was to take to the streets just black and brown america white americans or white your si

s all over salat in houston texas now a look at some other stories making headlines today swedish prosecutors have named the man they believe killed prime minister all of palma in 1986 but they said they're now closing the case since the suspect stick angstrom died 20 years ago. but was gunned down as he left to stockholm movie theater with his one. a massive oil spill in russia's arctic region has polluted a lake that serves as a basin for water flowing into the arctic ocean emergency teams are working to contain more than 20000 tons of diesel fuel which traveled 20 kilometers from the spill site near no real its. heavy rains and flooding have killed more than a dozen people and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes in southeastern china well chinese state media said the floodwaters had caused nearly half a 1000000000 euros worth of damage. and it was the scenario everyone feared a 2nd coronavirus help break in germany after the 1st lockdown measures were loose in the western city of good thing it is now seeing new cases surged to dangerous levels and now a muslim roma community is f

covered addressing the black voters and that could be more important than ever this time around for salat in washington d.c. thanks very much and of course george ford was not shot by police he died under the d. of a police officer those protests are spreading all around the world and we can see that here in the german capital across and across the country it's been another week of protests demonstrators from a cross-section of society formed a human chain around berlin on sunday but as with many cities across the world coronavirus precautions remain in force here meaning participants had to keep their distance and wear a face mask. standing together albeit 2 meters apart these demonstrators in the german capital formed a human chain that searched over 9 kilometers in keeping with social distancing the didn't hold hands. was. given to the by this protest is very important even though i haven't personally witnessed what is happening in the us and elsewhere i do hear about it and i am shocked the same goes for some cities around here was an official observed tak refugees it's unbearable. to

quickly that's right it's about making police take responsibility for what they do our very own oliver salat in houston oliver thank you. and we can report that a judge in minneapolis that's the city where george ford died has said bill of $1250000.00 for the former police officer who's being charged with 2nd degree murder in georgia floyd's death and that's after derek should have been made his 1st court appearance today showed his lawyers accepted the bill terms which include no contact with floyd's family no working in a while when foresman capacity not leaving minnesota and surrendering all of his fire arms. well here's a look at some of today's coronavirus developments the european union health regulator is looking to fast track the approval of gilly and sciences anti-viral drug room disappear as a potential covert 19 treatment here in europe now that is after the u.s. drug maker submitted its marketing application new york city has begun the 1st phase of reopening from a citywide. shutdown to battle the virus that shut down with the virus rather has killed nearly 22000 residents of new

defense minister says his country forces have killed north african chief during an operation into salat in northern mali abdel malek dr del was a key islamist fighters sought by french security forces for more than 7 years france says he was killed alongside several of his closest collaborators on june 3rd. brazil's president joe you're both an auto has threatened to pull his country out of the world health organization unless it stops being quote a partisan political organization wilson are would follow steps taken by president donald trump who has attacked the w.h.o. for its coronavirus response years ago like alexis ohanian has resigned from the board of read it in an online post he asked to fill his seat at the media company with a black candidate to use any future gains on a stock in enterprise to serve the black community honey and is married to tennis star serena williams. tensions have been building along india's disputed border with china a number of skirmishes between opposing troops have taken place over the last month now reports of an increase in troop numbers on both sides

all of our salat in washington d.c. hi all over put this in the context for us how significant is this ruling. was suing this is not the 1st time the u.s. supreme court ruled in favor of the l g b t community but they did so a couple times a last years and decades even but something is different now this time around under president trump the supreme court became more conservative there's a total of 9 judges appointed including the the chief justice and 5 of them are now conservative so there is a fair conservative major already majority in the supreme court with very new judge their very contested figure break cover na who was appointed in spite of the geishas made against him of sexual assault democrats at the time followed fuselier avoiding him being appointed to the supreme court and he replaced a liberal judge anthony kennedy who was a very prominent voice for gay rides on all 4 also of the ruling that allowed same sex marriage for the 1st time in the united states so one would assume that the supreme court now is b

defense minister says his country's forces have killed his north african chief during an operation into salat in northern mali abdel malik del was a key islam as fighter sought by french security forces for more than 7 years france says he was killed alongside several of his closest collaborators on june 3rd. alexis ohanian has resigned from the board at reddit in an online post he asked to fill his seat at the media company with a black candidate to use any future gains on his stock in the enterprise to serve the black community in is married to tennis star serena williams. head of america's national football league the n.f.l. has admitted the league was wrong for not allowing on field protests against racial injustice the n.f.l. previously banned players from kneeling during the country's nanjing national anthem that practice was started by calling katharine take in 2016 in protest against police brutality toward black americans but cabinets move sparked a bash flak from some fans and owners. now for more on this story i'm joined by jonathan train from d.w. sports so jonathan what led to th

correspondent oliver salat is in houston and sent us his impressions of the hometown tributes to george floyd it was a very sad and emotional a day procession the ceremony in the church lasted for 4 hours you got a little bit of an idea through the report that we've just seen his family members delivering a highly emotional speech is moved to tears of course but then there was also this cheer for aspect to the ceremony the family wanted to celebrate the life of george ford and that was done in the tradition of the afro-american church so he became an icon for this movement and that's what many people are so proud of that someone that was largely not unknown to the public became the face of a worldwide movement sparking protests world wide and people really do believe that his death was not in vain and there could have been chilly bring change and improvement of course and send out a strong signal against racism in the united states was also around the world german foreign minister heikal mosque is in israel today where he's holding a 1st meeting with his new israeli counterpart the fore

s all over salat in houston texas. united states has seen more protests following the funeral of george floyd protesters gathered in minneapolis where he was killed and in new york lawmakers responded to calls for police reforms voting to repeal a law that shields police disciplinary records from the public police have protested the move or relatives of victims of police brutality it was a long awaited victory. for # the health from different places they descended on new york city with a common demand for. the. help they want the state's police department defunded united by a shared story families and supporters of victims of police brutality gathered to have their choices. when it quiet out money money as it is then being done by the gun my son was killed i cried out money money to help him. in the national day for many the much came as george floyd was laid to rest in his hometown of houston texas. who are your heart know the american family born in one sees country got to say they floyd's death while in police custo