Spirits are low as tourists stay away from the turquoise coast. And the young man called a deal who died in a choice for breaking the lockdown rule belgiums police face questions over their conduct particularly in migrant neighborhoods. As well come to the program we begin with news breaking in moscow where a court has handed down a guilty verdict in the controversial case against a russian director carol Sarah Bernard cough he faces 6 years in prison on charges of forming a criminal group with his colleagues and embezzling public funds for Theatre Project server and of says he or she is ations are absurd trial has sparked an International Outcry and calls for his release. Now lets go straight to moscow where our correspondent at least sherman is standing by emily server because receives a verdict of guilty he rejects all the accusations himself what evidence have both sides provided well server nicko has been found guilty of large scale fraud and essentially is being accused of embezzling public funds that the ministry of culture gave to him for a Theater Project called platforma here in moscow and they say that he was in charge of a group that embezzled those funds now critics here say of course that this case is politically motivated and even one of the judges in charge of the court case last year gave the case back to the prosecution for what that judge says were actually in consistencies in the case of himself says that the case is absurd that it was completely fabricated he says that he didnt have anything to do with funding at all he wasnt in charge of those funds he was just in charge of putting on plays and performances and hes really maintained his innocence and said that he wants to that he doesnt regret taking artistic freedoms. There were Certain Court has a lot of International Support and the exact sentence is not good to know could this support help him. Was you say we dont yet know what the sentence will be the prosecutor this week asked for 6 years for say revenue code in a prison colony and 5 years for 2 of his codefendants 4 years for one of his other codefendants we dont know what the verdict will be yet this is clearly a very high profile case siddur nick of worked internationally as well including in germany weve seen protests in berlin supporting him hundreds of people came out in moscow today in front of the court the court house to support him as well this week the kremlin spokesperson. Said that a lot of your putin wouldnt be getting involved with this case and he emphasized again that the judiciary here in russia is independent but we have seen seemingly politics and the the timing of cases kind of influence sentencing or at least it seems so thats what critics said and in this case of course the timing of the case is significant its happening during a constitutional a vote on constitutional amendments here and russia where russia certainly interested in presenting itself as a very democratic country im sure would thank you. Turkey has opened its borders and insists it has the coronavirus under control but european governments continue to warn against travel that as to correspondent julie hahn reports the Tourism Industry the popular Holiday Resort off on tallia is already feeling the heat. Preparing breakfast for his guests under normal circumstances most of a good one wouldnt have time for this when its high season in antalya the hotel owner is usually run off his feet but not this floor right now only one of his rooms is occupied a family from germany is here despite the travel warning here they love it as a result i can only tell you come here everyone its wonderful in antalya here the only problem is because of the Coronavirus Crisis hardly anyone is coming. Out of my last year i had an occupancy rate of 100 percent consistently from april to october and this year there are only 3 people in july is coming soon we only have a few months left of this season right now its really difficult. That. Most of the has done everything he can to make his hotel safe the turkish government has issued strict teigen rules thats why goodenow now disinfect rooms and pool chairs several times a day although nobody is using them. Machete limbs that must be video we have masks for i guess you can disinfect your hands everywhere and temperature checks are scheduled every day like the requirements on very strict and we adhere to them until we can take that out what good is that if no one comes to. Untag as beaches are among the most popular holiday destinations in the Mediterranean Region about 15000000 to. From abroad came here last year but this summer most of the sun loungers are empty because of the Coronavirus Crisis governments in europe including germany are warning their citizens against travel to taki many of those here who depend on tourism think thats unsafe. Almost 2500000 people live in the antalya region but so far only a few 100 hours infections have been officially registered here. Mostafa good then thinks turkey is coming through the crisis relatively well he believes Decision Makers in europe are deliberately warning against trips to turkey in order to give their own tourist destinations an advantage. All my exit germany exit very biased they declared us a risk area but open borders to hundreds that are in a much worse situation than spain or italy for example they have more coronavirus cases than turkey and a higher coronavirus death toll a lot of it its a secure. Many share food and frustration and tell us Historic Old Town is normally filled with tourist watering facilities but now the sellers fight boredom the Restaurant Owners and taxi drivers are wondering how long they can keep going. To be attributed we only have a goat of our taxis on the street no hotel gas no taxi rides sure it doesnt work without forward interests turkish holiday makers arent enough of these years ago thats all oh preparations for this summer with a nothing 2020 is a last year. The last year maybe last season he made good money with his hotel most of the good and says and he still hopeful but he also knows if the tourist from europe dont come back soon the holiday pay. Dies of entire young faces a devastating summer. Report from you leon who joins us now from istanbul you can turkey harmful an influx of tourists without risking Public Health. Well the turkish government is definitely trying hard to convince travelers and political leaders in europe that it is a safe destination this summit is actively lobbying many e. U. Countries to open their borders and lift travel warnings ankara has launched a socalled healthy Tourism Program which sets criteria for hygiene and how thin Airports Airlines hotels as well restaurants cafes or at beaches and hotel owner must have a told me that the authorities are quite strict when it comes to checking compliance with these rules and untie as a couple for example we saw. Cameras checking passengers temperatures theyre also working on setting up a coronavirus test center as so many things have been done but if you look at the figures i mentioned that turkeys tourism hops at the coast have seen a relatively low number of corona virus infections but nationwide the number is surging again the number has in fact doubled of new daily corona virus infections since early june when turkey lifted most of its coronavirus restrictions were now at nearly 1500. 00 new cases per day and this is definitely something european Decision Makers will take into account when reevaluating their travel advice for 3rd countries like turkey. Just give us an idea how important the travel industry actually is for turkey. Well its a 1000000000. 00 industry and that is exactly why the turkish government prices to open the borders tourism accounts for 12 percent of the turkish economy an economy that is now facing its 2nd recession in almost 2 years and so tacky needs the Foreign Tourists it needs for ring currencies and this Tourism Sector has been battered already by the pandemic we had a nationwide shutdown from late march until the end of amaze so thousands tens of thousands of people working in this industry have already suffered drastic consequences so thats why so much is at stake for taki this summer. You were on our correspondent in istanbul thank you. For your watching the news still to come cyc loan unfun have been devastated of their lives a months later the people of india some about stell to face an uncertain future. French president and on our own are caused you to host a Video Conference with his russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and the security situation in libya will be at the top of the agenda the north african nation is less than 2000 kilometers away from Continental Europe but its become a bloody battleground for a number of players vying for power in the oil rich country one of them as far as also raj who leads the u. N. Installed government in tripoli on the other side is military strongmen Khalifa Haftar a rebel general who now controls 2 thirds of the country including libyas oil fields so far is it tends to take control of the capital failed. Im now joined by kristen harness hes a middle east expert from the foundation and joins me now the son of how concerned should your of be about a resurgence in islamist terror and the migrant exodus from libya thanks for inviting me to the show. We should be constant about the situation the developments in libya all the time its a country close to our neighborhood and it if failed state with rich resources what you just sat and and in 20142015 there where so the economic state in libya which have been forced by different militias there are still networks of islamic jihadist fighters in the country turkey has been bringing some jihadists. From northants to riyadh. I thought their interest and there are linkages of islamists between libya into mali. On the one on the other hand our concern with refugees yes there is a concern the situation of the home of the 1000s of refugees and migrants in the detention camps in libya is in bad shape United Nations and International Organization of my kids need support of these migrants and refugees know how how how dangerous the situation in libya is and and they would like to avoid to go through to be. President because and also whether weve gotten a backing general have to italy and turkey are supporting the u. N. Backed government so just what are you expecting from todays Virtual Summit that. We are now over at the very critical point is that turkey has been militarily helping to advance the western governments to stand quite in the middle of the country as a frontline around zits and and on the other side the general have to who is supported militarily and. Politically by rusher and by the United Arab Emirates and as well as egypt so they are internal to internal rifts. With with the potential of its collation and external interests france is officially with the e. U. Position to support the western governments of the un left Prime Minister assad a trick to do due to frances strong strategic relations militarily and financially with the United Arab Emirates it has some sympathy for the United Arab Emirates was. On on Eastern Libya and this there was that the problem is my final idea on that is that the e. U. Will have no influence on what turkey and russia are deciding on the future of libya and this is what is of great political concern for the e. U. Because anonymous from the bed of month foundation thank you very much for joining us today. A month after the death of george floyd in Police Custody in minneapolis the protests may have died down but the behavior of the police remains a hot topic and not only in the us the conduct of the police in many European Countries is now also being questions not least in belgium where there is anger about the death of a young man who just flouted lockdown rules. Justice for a deal. More than 2 months after a police chase came to a deadly end here and there on the list neighborhood of brussels messages of solidarity and calls for action remains strong. Markings on the ground show where the 19 year old scooter crashed head on into a police car the police were chasing a deal because this is specter him afloat in the lockdown he died immediately the case is still under investigation alexis wafa smore who represents a deals family he says the case fits a pattern of over policing in disproportionate use of force in neighborhoods with a large Minority Community you know its not like if a deal has make a Big Bank Robbery and that he was armed and has to stop him for the Public Security of everybody done of course. Its necessary to do the tracing retool trichords and even oscar helicopter but here we were controlling the police was controlling the covert 19 measures was does really a priority a deals death sparked outrage and under less than the following days with peaceful demands for justice but also violent unrest. To most of us knew a deal he runs just a Community Center for children and young adults where the teen used to volunteer on the weekend of the protests he and some fellow social workers were under laced trying to help calm the situation i was standing there and i saw the riot police advance in the crowds so that then you know theres no more time for talking for me i just backed off and they passed me. They immediately run. Because they grew up in a neighborhood i know well well part of the profile that moments you understand youre in the same public space and you live it differently. This experience of being treated differently costs thousands take to the streets of cross halls at the beginning of the month taking a stand against Police Violence in the black lives matter protest. 1000 year old when i am posted this video on social media the following night he tells us he was detained by police after the protest and put into a police van by an officer because. He came back with his colleagues. And they started beating me aiming for my face after 20 or 30 seconds of being beaten i fainted and then they stopped. 5 officers beat him tells us however he doesnt believe these men were racist but they attacked him simply because it was convenient although difficult for him he feels the need to speak out against Police Violence. If you hide when people dont dare to take legal action because they are afraid of the police and that leads to the police abusing their powers for them to continue by making it even worse. Brussels police declined to talk to us about Police Violence and racism but in an interview with flemish radio the federal police chief acknowledged there were occasional slip ups but he also made clear there was no problem of structural racism. With the recent lifting of the lockdown measures some pressure was taken off policing but it seems there is still a very long way to go to restore trust between police and the community. Im not joined by. Senior Research Officer at the European Network against racism and you know in balsall zodiacal what will it take to rebuild trust between police and minority communities. I think were asking for a dialogue with the police that i think weve been asking for dial up with the police for the for many years. Were almost at a point where. Building trust is something that weve been calling for for so long that we need something more than that now and i think that some of the ideas around reforming the police and not sufficient we need to think about different ways to police and the streets and think of different ways to invest in our communities because and trust has been severely broken right now but during the pandemic that weve just experience and still experience and has policing expose discrimination against minority communities across europe. Yeah of course i mean weve been documenting what our members have been saying what activists have been saying is that the police have been enforcing the confinement measures and just the caution he said so weve seen a rise in stop and searches a rise in racial profiling theres official data in front. Was there in belgium and in the u. K. Where we are seeing a huge rise rise in stop and searches and its targeting people of color black and brown people young people as well so you know now at the current moment the police have more powers than weve ever seen and we can see that there is a racial bias in the way in which they are imposing that palast and i think this is problematic and something that weve documented in recent times a day you see any European Free police force that have taken proactive steps to address racism within their organizations. Yeah there happen i mean you cases kind of stand out in that case. Theres a report called the macpherson report which was issued by. The u. K. Government in after the killing of Stephen Lawrence but this report was one of the 1st reports to actually document institutional racism and recognise it within the metropolitan police force however this report was like published 20 years ago and were still talking about institutional racism so theres a real and important step that needs to be made from acknowledging that Police Forces can be institutionally racist and then the other steps that need to come into play about how they actually deal with that so the u. K. Has tried to reform the police as i said as i was saying they have been and attempts to reform and increase diversity within the police in in you know have an independent and can complaints mechanism but these reforms dont go far enough and i think this is where we are now we have to rethink our idea of policing and other. Member states have also been thinking and how do you leasing differently how do we think of policing and and violence is as a kind of Public Health issue how do we reinvest in communities so these are the questions that need to start asking ourselves now. Or thank you very much. Its been a month since a psych loan fund hit the bay of bengal and people in the region are still suffering the consequences many now feel the disaster could impact their livelihoods not just for months but for years to come. As wall reports. A few hours from the bustling city of call gata. The landscape becomes transformed. Into the sunderbans. To a diverse ecology and 4000000 people. People who rely on fishing and farming to survive. But in me a massive storm wiped out both options. These are the fresh water forms needed when i wonder used to fission the violence of breached all embankments killing the freshwater fish and sweeping out the prawns that could have survived the line water to see. What can we do we are dependent on relief now once a lockdown is lifted reveal have to leave this in their bones to find there is nothing after. These islands in the sun their bones were evacuated before the cycle and. Preventing paos of deaths. But just didnt return to utter devastation houses gone fields flooded crops destroyed. And even when the water drains away boss disaster shored that celine deposits good rendered this land in for a decade. The summer months is a cycle on for one reason and were still recovering from the impact of cycling i like 11 years ago. It was worse and weeks after that this would mean land still lies inundated there are some temporary solution. A group called the cotton Team StudentsYouth Network is helping will this be for dreaming celine watto from the spawn thank you when the rains come they will again be filled with fresh water allowing fish farming to resume at least the draining can address Serious Health concerns as well. Public health and hygiene are seriously destructive here and need to be restored. Water is dangerous as it can lead to gastro intestinal diseases as well as skin conditions and then there is the often ignored issue of snake bite snake bite. When socially in the short lives like this one are trying to bridge a gap in the margins the response the are limited in their. This has left locals driving about dangerous gaps in health care. The water is contaminated and we cannot drink it you know he. Gets sick and then getting to the hospital is difficult and i want to go there what you know and you know youve seen that the roots are destroyed when a pregnant woman or one carrying a child balance herself while we did through these swampy waters to get to work clinic of these and. These what hes played as well. She says the beach adama chill has driven many people over a whole family has somehow managed to stay put she feels that if these embankments keep getting swept away hope home all generations will be lost too. And thats it for me and the news team here in berlin dont forget you can get the latest news on our website as well. Dot com this is state of the news im going out office in berlin stations to go. Into the conflict zone and missed him sebastian. Never knows Hezbollah Movement is condemned as a terrorist group by many countries for the also. As a powerful political face with seats in parliament and government my guest this week from beirut is one of its politicians even to moussawi how does the self named party of god reconcile its very different activities conflicts of just her own right next to believe. Di to know that 77 percent of poppy are younger and thinks ah. Thats me and me and you. And you know what its time all voices. On the 77 percent to talk about beat the issue. 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