Be done here to tackle racism and discrimination. As hong kong marks one year of prodemocracy protests activists warn the world to watch out for. The 1st assault the next taiwan and later all this the rest of the world. Now so rests and a new security law from beijing could spell the end to hong kongs special status. Plus the coronavirus deals a massive hit to german exports volume was down a record 31 percent germany recover well hear from an economist. Im sumi so much going to glad you could join us a last goodbye to george floyd the black man whose death ignited global protests against racism and Police Brutality will be buried today in houston his hometown. Meanwhile in Washington Democratic lawmakers have unveiled a package of reforms against Police Misconduct largely unknown in life floyds killing 2 weeks ago after a Police Officer knelt on his neck now appears to be a turning point in american history. Under a scorching texas sky thousands hour was to enter the church where George Floyds body lay a last chance for the public to pay their respects to the man whose death has become a rallying cry against racism around the globe. The public viewing was held in houston the city where floyd grew up. Well this is an important time in our world. And i feel bad it is necessary for me to be here. As a human being. Human race being an africanamerican man it is. Why people have the luxury of assuming the police are good and assuming the police are on their side but the reality is that black people dont have that luxury in America Justice but also attending the families of other black victims of Police Brutality and stand in solidarity with this family because it mimics the mad case and this is. They have double bed. Life. Back what we have but i would just. In Washington Democratic senators nelson silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds the length of time floyd a black man was pinned under a white Police Officers need for he died. To say how long it was. That need. To. Democrats in congress have proposed sweeping legislation to overhaul u. S. Police oversight which includes banning chokeholds she day this movement of nat moment of National Language is being transformed into a movement of National Action as americans from across the country peacefully protest to demand an end to end justice today with the justice and policing act the congress is standing with those fighting for justice and taking action. Floyds family and friends will hold a private Funeral Service on tuesday in houston to remember the life of the man who in death has become an International Symbol of injustice. To the. Reporter stacy bivins is following this story for us hi stacy the scene this outpouring of grief for george floyd we heard there that hell be buried in houston today do you think were going to see the same types of crowds turning out for the i think today as a private moment this is for the family the past few days weve seen people come out and collectively grieve to come out and support the family and to show sympathy for a man that they watched die under the weight of police but today hes going to be laid to rest next to his mother and surrounded by family and friends lets talk about what happens next as we look at these moments of mourning weve seen the Democrats Use on a report there are looking at legislation at this point to tackle Police Culture to tackle Police Misconduct how do you change Police Culture because that is a big task the biggest hurdle as the police union they are extremely extremely powerful they have a lot of money their coffers come from members ship dues and so theyre able to pay to essentially block legislation to keep. Their their police power. As in order to influence elections in order to get certain people elected and in order to in some cases get bad cops rehired so whats happening in congress is important because this means that they are listening or attempting to listen to the protesters so what theyre proposing would make chokeholds illegal so what killed eric garner and what killed george floyd no knock warrants which is how Brianna Taylor weve heard her name shouted at project protest was killed and they would also make a registry so that we can keep track of bad cops and so when one is fired and one district they cant get hired in another where has the President Donald Trump been in all of this because a lot of people of lincoln looking to the white house for leadership perhaps some signs to unite the country and we havent heard that coming from the white house so where has he been thats a great question hes been through rocks a question behind that wall he recently built around the white house. I think its easy to talk about what he hasnt done he hasnt met with black last let matter organizers he has a match with civil rights leaders he hasnt met privately with the George George floyd family but what he has done is retreated character access assassinations about george floyd. On twitter that they come from that came from conservative commentators and he also created a parade a bunch of middle aged white men on the sunday morning talk shows to say the systematic racism in the Police Department and the Police Departments do not exist now hes supposed theres talk that he might held some kind of a. A talk in order to talk about civil rights and bringing the nation together but if he does that hes waited a long time traditionally president s get out in front of Something Like this to bring the nation together but hes as you said that give you a Porter Stacie Bivins thank you. Well the black lives matter protests in the u. S. Have resonated around the world including here in germany which is now reexamining its own attitudes towards race today the federal Antidiscrimination Agency has presented its annual report its findings shows that the country has an ongoing racism problem thats having serious consequences. Germany is slowly waking up to discrimination but the number of cases is on the rise there were 3 to 580 reported cases of discrimination in 2019. Stuff you. Should see shouldnt be any gaps in protection in the long term and this is an important it is Rights Movement is the 1st state to happen and to discrimination law because its property to talk and other states should follow through shortly. To counter his latest report looks at this coming nation based on gender disability age religion Sexual Identity and worldview but the largest issue remains racial discrimination. Cases in 201933 percent were classified as race is discrimination at times and a 176. 00 reported cases last year more than double compared to 4 years ago into reports so im going to sit inside today experiences. To colleagues from another department approached me laughing gas me if i worked at the company to make coffee im a Civil Engineer from syria. A kid at school insulted my brother because hes got dark skinned that he hit him the teacher saw everything but did nothing. To report comes at a time when a new Awareness Towards every day discrimination is raised following protests denouncing police fire and ems to its people of color all over the world. Lets get some perspective on this with peggy shes a cultural and literary scholar a policy advisor on diversity and d. Clonie ality at the federal agency for Civic Education thank you thank you for joining us i want to ask you about what we just heard in our report there are examples of someone being demeaned in the workplace physical and verbal abuse over the color of someones skin is that representative of the type of discrimination and racism faced here in germany thank you for having me yes im fortunately i have to say that is very representative and the we have these cases over and over again and. Review your already show that. Just. Came out with discrimination law and it also means that. There was a consultation process process with the black community on their experiences on discrimination on the last 2 years and this is also where a lot of this information came out we actually we know about that we know about Police Brutality we have these cases open as well so we could look at it. Directly here in germany i want to ask about a discussion thats being had right now in germany about whether racism here is systemic and a structural do you think it is. Yes it is structural and i think we really need to look at it and look at the history of how the german mentality how we actually do you well a lot this idea of german and which is very much tied to the idea of whiteness so German National identity still equals whiteness in many hats and regardless of the development of our laws and into creating laws but it is. Really going back to the in lightman period where the idea of germanys force developed and which directly led also into colonialism we never really taproot this. Face its not a trace actually distance. Very influential period of german history and thats very much let to involvement in every day through a system in a structural way we can see that for example that was in the german discourse we dont have enough language to talk about racism to talk about the experience of black people we always look rather to the United States when now there are efforts to tackle this the Census Initiative a to collect information on the black community here in germany theres more discussion about discrimination as he said do you see this as a turning point in how we talk about race and racism here in germany. I dont know if it is a turning point it is very important it is necessary that we get also who the statistics want numbers but it is also important that we as a society look to this problem every day and scene where we can where we can change the way we look at the German Society we look at the idea of who is included and who cant possibly be a member of this society so by including and collecting more data on connect people and their experience in germany we hope to contribute to this discussion to do so to this discourse but there has to be more done. A culture a cultural and literary scholar policy adviser thank you very much for joining us thank you for having me. Hong kong is marking one years since prodemocracy demonstrations broke out last june more than a 1000000 people marched through the city to protest a draft law that would allow expeditions to Mainland China and the bill was eventually withdrawn but many continue to push for democratic freedoms a year on many Young Hong Kong are starting to fear beijings heavy handed reaction to their dissent. Keeps stalled more than a 1000000 people took to the streets last year united in their outrage specifically they came out to protest a draft law allowing beijing to extradite criminal suspects similar in china but many were also as part of a larger push to protect hong kong semi autonomous status. The bill was eventually withdrawn but protests continued sometimes turning violent many protesters still fear persecution today and dont want to be recognized. By your partners that i met him back in august i really feared nothing even when i stood alone at the front against a squad of rock police i wasnt afraid. But since then almost 9000. 00 people have been arrested in relation to protests Authorities Say more than 600. 00 were charged with rioting. And now beijing is preparing a show of force communist leaders have launched a socalled security law which will become part of hong kongs basic law this will allow beijing to deploy its own Security Forces in hong kong. On tuesday hong kongs leader kerry lam seem to be an ally of beijing urged the people of hong kong to get behind the new legislation. Were going to go from Everyone Needs to learn a lesson including the Hong Kong Government and the legislators hong kong cannot afford such chaos. People want stability and peace so they can live safely and develop their careers. However prominent prodemocracy protesters joshua long says hong kong is want more than that he also points to the reversal of the extradition bill as a clear sign that protesting works. We become good or bad that we recognize the rig market by fellow protester chu successfully and has beijing to withdraw the controversial bill and on last november 85 percent of the seats in that district on so well by prodemocratic am this land side factory employee house silence. Then with that said on a site a fellow protester. Regardless of that success protests on this scale could soon be a thing of the past if beijing gets its way with the new security bill dissenting voices could soon be much more few and far between. Lets go right to hong kong where we can speak to dorie and lao what china researcher at Amnesty International thank you for joining us chinas National Security legislation has yet to be put to paper so what do you think it will mean for hong kong. And this international along with many hong kong there is actually very worried about the and thats my hope is National Security gold and reason is. Right although theres raise the details about well but if you look at the situation that authorize the. National Peoples Congress to pass this law we can see that the area all of the socalled actions that are prohibited by this law and that theyre using terms and still say that china right now Mainland China right now when they implement their own National Security model we can see that see the definition of National Security is extremely broad and also conscious even. Many principle set out in the International Human rights standards also of the law its going to be drastic and passed by the national Peoples Congress to any committee which is not part of the whole consciously interest nation and it would be promoted by the Hong Kong Government directly which means it will completely. Bypass the hunger legislation and meaningful Public Consultation so when i ask you about the protest movement itself the prodemocracy movement because over the past year it has proven to be very resilient and resourceful we heard joshua walking in our reports say protesting works but if its the National Security legislation comes into force in the way that you described can that protest movement continue. We can see in the past year that. The protest movement in hong kong is actually very vibrant of course there are people who use violence but it seems that many including the government make such a specially to go to. Put straight protests move movement as one that is particularly silent but lets not forget too many people actually took to the streets stary peacefully to say no to the extradition bill and when that 900 broke out and actually before that event we can see protesters adopting different strategies and ways express their opinions for example you know Economic Circle or different screenings talks so what we worry is that with a National Security goal with very vague terms it can lead to a lot open to abuse and interpretation and they can crackdown on. Peace Peaceful Assembly and freedom of expression so many ways a huckle people have been using to express their opinion. Peacefully will be likely to be monitored and also to be eliminated by a 100 new National Radio and what about beyond protests we saw in last years local elections there was a landslide victory for prodemocracy candidates how much power do they have to protect hong kongs freedoms. We have also seen some worrying developments right now for example in some up to local District Council meetings the government has been. Heads actually know and or some of the meetings or receive used to either provide meetings and use just because of the meetings. Discussed human rights related topics or election related topics and also we have already even before the National Security process passes we have already heard comments from a city also show saying that people who oppose the National Security all should because all of sides to run for the Legislative Council ok election in coming to south will have to leave it there dorian lao from Amnesty International hong kong and thank you for joining us thank you lets check in now and some other stories from around the world north koreas state News Agency Says the country will cut its hotlines with south korea as a 1st step to shutting off all contact with seoul john yang is threatening to sever ties with the south if it does not stop defectors from sending leaflets and other materials into the north. While fires have been spreading across the u. S. State of california due to high winds and dry weather water dropping helicopters worked through the night to put out a brush fire in Los Angeles County the National Weather service issued red flag warnings for several regions in the state. And New Zealanders are returning to life without social distancing restrictions a day after the country was declared free of the coronavirus residents have flocked back to cafes to catch up with friends or gone back to sports classes that were cancelled during the lockdown. Of the coronavirus pandemic has been wreaking havoc on economies all over the globe including in the e. U. German exports are down more than 30 percent for the month of april that is the sharpest decline since exports statistics began in 1950. Traffic here at the port of hamburg ground to a halt at the height of the corona Virus Outbreak coronavirus lockdowns and a looming global recession dealt a historic blow to the german x. Porters whose goods flow out of here. Aprils double digit collapse and trade will likely mark the low point for the export dependent German Economy economies throughout the world have become to reopen style supply chains are coming back online and consumers are returning to restaurants and stores. But a quick return to normal might not be in the cards for german best misses. Its largest trading partners from its european neighbors to the United States are facing historic economic slowdowns that means theyre buying fewer cars chemicals and machinery from germany and it will likely stay that way for now. Lets get some analysis on this now with fed and fish now an economist at the university of applied sciences in berlin and thank you for joining us we heard there the german exports are down more than 30 percent this is a country that relies heavily on exports so how bad is this for the German Economy. Well in the short run its definitely a dramatic. We have roughly 40 percent of our g. D. P. Go into exports so if they dont vote by one 3rd or if you compared actually to february or january its almost half of the exports we were having in april and probably expecting filmy so this is really the right thing for for g. D. P. In the very short run for the 2nd quarter its not really so can you want to have what happens in the 2nd half of the year obviously but for the very shoulder and its definitely dramatic if we do look ahead do you think that the demand for german goods can recover quickly or are we really looking at a long term issue. Well. That obviously depends on how the how the crisis how the penn demick develops over the next few months. Im not an epidemic epidemic. But as an economist i guess i can say if if the crises comes down and if the situation remains fairly calm as were seeing it in germany for example right now i guess we can still be fairly optimistic for for the German Economy we have enough support measures in place like if you think about the liquidity support measures we have in place or the short term labor schemes i guess we can be fairly optimistic that that the crisis does not leave a too destructive long term effect on the German Economy. But it all depends on the recovery of the World Economy if the World Economy comes back up i guess this can be a temporary issue but if as some people say the crisis is now only starts in africa or latin america. Then then fiscal policy could run out of steam to support the German Enterprises and also the german households so it depends on the length of the crisis but right now i guess most people are fairly optimistic that its only a temporary issue at that and that there can be a full recovery in the 2nd half of this year or at least in 2021 professor feting and fish now joining us thank you very much for your insights thank you. Lets take a look at the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic now the World Health Organization is warning that the crisis is worsening worldwide thats after 136000. 00 new cases were reported to the u. N. Agency monday the biggest single day rise so far most of the cases came from the americas and south asia meanwhile w. H. O. Officials say the spread of the current corona virus by people not showing symptoms is very rare despite warnings from some experts that suggest the opposite of endemic has forced the cancellation of an annual philippine peace prize regarded as the asian nobel it is only the 3rd time that ramon months they say prizes havent been awarded in their 60 year history. Now what do you do if you are wild water canoe slouched slalom race serve but you cant train properly because of the corona Virus Outbreak well argentina has come up with a novel idea hes been practicing by tying himself to 2 palm trees and splashing around in his girlfriends Swimming Pool he won silver at the economy and games last year and is now targeting success at the Tokyo Olympics which have been postponed until 2021 because of the global pandemic. Lets get a reminder now of our top story here on d w thousands of people have attended a public memorial for george florida ahead of his burial in houston and his death while in Police Custody has sparked protests around the world u. S. Democratic lawmakers have also unveiled a Police Reform bill that would include banning the chokehold. Thank you for watching to give you news to go to our web site dot com for all the latest news and information around the park and follow us on twitter and instagram. Good to have you with us. Hind the beautiful sparkle is in an ugly secret might come. Natural mineral gives cosmetics there she learned. The most of it comes from illegal mines in india. And those who extract it to children. At all costs close up. Next on. My. Street. Going over labor. Frame and closure the growing number of laws of the last. 60 minutes. Every day counts for us and for our planet. 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