The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Welcome to bbc world news amera. . Im kk in washington im katty kay in washington. The family calls for votes inead of violence. Stop thinking that our voice dont matter and vote. The American Capital has seen some of the worst violence. I asked the citys mayor who is behind it all. We look at how the latest crisis s image abroad. welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. Shop saluted shops looted. Elraceions, Police Brutality, and the president urging force, not restraint the killing of an unarmed black man in minneapolis home a nationwide crisis. The bbc has been putting the latest events into context. Wothe words state of emergeny theords state of emergency seem inaquate to describe whats happening now. Notse since 1968 have we witn such widespread racial turbulence. If youender these pictures in black and white, they would look like they came from the 1960s. That was a decade when the struggle for black equality achieved such landmark success. The civil rights movement, pushing for legislation that ended segregation across the American South and guaranteeing Voting Rights for black americans, but there was unfinished business. Polices brutality has alwayeen hard to legislate against. Africanamericacs have never eved equality and pay in pay, a form of racism has been festering. When the sore is about to heal, the wound is reopened again by incidents like this, and you have to start all over again. And the questi is, how much can people take . Many hoped the election of president would heal the racial breach, but barack obama never edwais time in office to be defined by the color of s skin. Pres. Trump this american carnage ops right here and stops right now. E h was followed into office by donaldru, whose political rise started when he disputed whether barack obama was born in america, a groundless accusation. Many reasons explain his victory in 2016, though mr. Trump certainly benefited from a backlash against a black president among some white voters. Americis being hit right now by three simultaneous compulsions a pandemic that is disproportionately affecting ople ofolor, the economic shock that is disproportionately affecting people of color, and civil unrest caused by Police Brutality that disproportionately affects people of color. Racial division is americas default setting, so what we are seeing here is not some aberration, but rather the continuation of an unbroken historical thread. Nickryt, bbc news, new york. Katty ty are extraordinary scenes from around the country. Washington saw a lot of violence la night, so business downtown in the city have been warned to board up their windows and close early tay. Residents are being told that we shouldnt leave our homes after 7 00. M. Late last night, i watched looters break into sorps in my neigod and this morning i went out to see the damage. While i was out, i ran into e citys mayor, muriel bowser, who was doing the same. Youve come out this morning. A what you seeing . We started in Lafayette Park after a night of some peoplere o protest peacefully, but too many here to destroy property. Katty youve ilemented a curfew in the city. Do you think you will have to keep that curfew in place, and is it rking to stop the violence . I think what we saw was moving out a lot of people at 11 00 allowed the police to focus on people who were rely bent on destruction. I think that the curfew had the intended effect ofet gng the big mass of people moving and going home so that the police can fo gs on the splinterroups that getut o of that protest is only about two eehouse, which blocks each way. Katty mayor, is the violence counterproductive to the people who are protesting peafully . I think it is. As iook at a the news reports now, people are talking about destruction, looting, and they are not talking about t killing tha sparked all of the anger. I think it further divides us politically, a the people who want to be in political camps ntst dont go further that, because they are talking about violence and looting and n talking about injustice. Katty i was walking some of the oting last night with ung kids that didnt seem to be political at all. How do y stop them . I think its opportunistic, certainly. Quite frankly, th think some of chaos that was created by people who were pretty organized, i think, that were in the area near lafayette squaref kind olet the other opportunistic chaos start. Katty what do you ttmean by pre organized . Who are you talking about . We saw people that had abo strategy setting fires and pushing our firstva responders n ous different ways and preventing them from getting to the fire locations. Those things are people who have done it before. Katty dhio you they have a political agenda, those people . I really cant say o they who are at this point, but it is definitely it definitely seems disconnected from the killing of george floyd. Katt thank you. Thank you. Katty the mayor of the nats capital, speaking to me earlier toy. I filmed it on my iphone, so i apologize for the quality. Im clearly not a camera person. President trump told american governors they had become the laughing stock of the world for not cracking down harder on the people, but weve seen around the world come out in support of the protests. At a time when americas reputation was already in doubt because of its high death toll im joined by a reporr. When you woke up this morning and you saw these scenes from america, what did you think . H, it reminded me of 1968. At the time, we had a ack and white tv set. I was living with my parents. We remembered this kind of looked like a civil war in chicago. We were really impressed because, for us, at the time, america was a nd of dream and very stable country. We were very surprised. Thought that was we call the black problem, if you like, was solved and had been solved after the election of barack unobama as president of thed states. Hat he won the democratic primary, beating a white lady, and then he was reelected in a very comfortable majority. We really thought that the black problem was solved in the United States, and it was something from the past. Apparently katty this all comes, of course, just days after america passed the threshold of 100,000 peopleying from the coronavirus, more cases here than anywhere else in e world. When you look at it from the atlantic, whathe does americas standing look like right now . For us french, its quite comfortable,ecse we were ashamed that the germans had four times less deaths than us in france. We had the same numbers as italy, spain, britain. But, actually, we cannot lecture america. Weor haddeaths than y in america. The level is lower in the United States than in france. Katty of course, there is racism in europe as well. Lets be honest. There is racism in frae ande k. As well. Is it somehow different whenou look at no, because we have these kinds of riots in 2005 in paris. It was the same kind of stories. Two teenagers. They committed some kind of crime. Theyere chased by police. They were electrocuted when they went into some kind of electrical plant. You remember in france the looting also. It was quite different from the United States. In france, they aree lower middl class white population that has been downgraded by globalization and who cannot stand that. Its quite different. You cannot compare it. It witwhat is happening in america, which looks like more than the 2005 riots in france an d the 2011 riots in london. Katty we he to leave it there. Thank you very much. This is something being watched widely from around the world. Fothank yojoining us from paris. Today, Terrence Floyd paid an emotional visit to the scene where hibrother died. It came as a private autopsy report for the famy shows that mr. Floyd died from a lack of oxygen. Heresore. Seven days after thefeath o george floyd, his brother returned to the place where he drew his lasdesperate breaths. Whats his name . George floyd this was mor a stop on a private journey of grief. It was an appeal to end the violence that exploded i protest over thes brutalit of his killing in protests over the brutality of his killing. Lets do this peacefully, please. Noustice no peace rosts the day before were largely peaceful, but as night fell, demonstrdeors defied or to go home andto promised keep coming back. Even if it thins out today, there is tomorrow. You cant kill all 400,000 of us or one million of us. Do you think these protests are different than others that have happened . Yeah, cause we tired. We tired. The curfew has just ended, and police are dispersing the protesters. They seem to have gained the upper hand now consolidate that control. Its been a week since george floyd died, but its going t take more than curfews and damage thawas done. Security forces have come down like a hammer here to restorerder, but the case of georgelo fyd has refocused attention on the longstandingol problem of pice violence. Ofbecause this graphic vid which showed mr. Floyd expire in real time as he begged to be able to breathe, the officer pinned him to the w grounh a need to his neck a knee to his neck for nearly nine minutes. Derek chauvin already had a bad rd, at least 17 miscondu complaints. An official autopsy said this wasnt the direct cause of mr. Floyds death, although mr. Chauvin was charged with at murder. E autopsy releasedoday said otherwise. The public fury has been punctuated by a rare sho of solidarity from individual members of the security forces. Here, the national guard. E Police Officers thuntry have made similar gestures. No sign of reconciliation from the president , though. Pres. Trump if you dont dominate, you are wasting your time. They will run over you. The presipont after a weekend of chaos across the country. Literally under siers, with protes chanting at the door of the white house and setting fires in the capital. In san diego, more than 100 were arrested as police moved in with tear gas in sacramento, more wthan 1e arrested as police moved in with tear gas. Today was a moment of her reflection in minneapolis, where people feel like theyve been here many times before, outrage over a brutalt death that did lead to change, but they are wondering whether just maybe this time it might. Katty this e floyd, and it is about so mucou more in thisry, too. Stephen blackohaed businesses nt been spared violence e en blackowned businesses havent been spared violence. Protesters sshed the window of janets store. Im so sorry about what happened to your store. Do you want to tell us a little bit about what happened . Es, i think can you hear me . Janice . I dont think she can hear us. We will have to try and go back whenet we that line up. Its always complicated when we are dealing with skype calls. You are watching bbc world news america. Tostilome on this program, it is back to children get used to social distancing. Brazil has more than 500,000 cases ofr covid19 and the num of new debts is rising deaths is rising, but the president remains adamant that the lockdown measures must be lifted. The bbc reports from sao paulo. Lasteek, the state governor talked about sao paulo returning to some kind of normality, but its very much in the start. How works is th the states are divided into regions, and each region igiven a color or a phase. It goes from red, which is the strictest phase, where the toughest problems are. Going to blue, where theres much more flexibility. The idea being that the severe states and severe regions can go through those phases eventually and come out the other end. In sao paulo, we are in orange. That means placesppike sg malls, car dealerships, they can start to look at reopening. Katty news now from the u. K. England has seen the biggest loosening ofhe coronavirus lockdown since it was imposed 10 weeks ago. As of today as many as six people are allowed to meet outdoors, open air markets and car rooms have reopened, and some younger schoolchildren have had their first day back in class, but not all parents think that its safe yet. Our education editor has this report for us. Welcoming them back to school. First to arrive, your six year six. Hes backorast term. Lief that even though its only six or seven weeks, then another six him to go and get a little bit of learning, because we couldnt get a lot do at home. I think im going to like being wi my friends as much as all right, off we go. This is his new, smallerou class socially distancing om the start of the day. Weomollowed them separately the rest of the school, into a classroom,ach to their own desk, no books or pens shared. From lockdown to a new reality. Good morning, everybody. Even assembly is now online,h from td Teachers Office to the classroom. T is so lovely to have you all back in school. Most year six pupilse w here today, but some parents kept students home. S they know thool doesnt look normal, and i think there is still fear in ter of the ndemic. Im hoping that the more we can sht t school is successfully open mt theent and it is safe that more parents will send their children back. Through the day, washing thr hands. No noisy playground at break time, just so, they are back with some of their, frient having to keep their distance, and they cant mix with any other chdren in this school. So, although this is a day thato mathem will have been looking forward to, its not backtoschool as normal. We are more spad out, whereas we are usually quite close together. Makes me happier, because i know i get to, like, seehahe people ive been with my whole entire life. In wales,no thereate for schools to open. Scotland and northern irelandr start thturn in august, leaving dads like martin homeschooling his son, samuel. To we are trusting school give us what we need, and we are following that lead. I think the ing thats rrying me, school isnt just about lessons. Hes missing his friends and the social aspect of school. Lessons under the trees. But despite precautions like this, morning still warning still that this step too soon. We are fntlowing the scts who tell us that it is too soon, that Contact Tracing isnt working, and who say that in a fortnights time Contact Tracing could be working and the level of infection could be half what it is now. The end of a tiring, but rewarding day. Still absorbing how Different School looks now. Bbc news, staffordshire. Katty lets go back to the protests in america. Janice is in atlanta for us. Your shop was attacked by looters. Whatne hap actually, on saturday night, at 11 30 p. M. , i was in my business on that evening. All of a sudden, i heard someone hit my windows. They threw rocks. But it did not come inside. They busted theindows through the front entrance of my store. N i have three windowse street, so they busted the windows. Thank god they weren able to enter. Katty how bad has the looting been in your area . No looting was going on in my immediate area, but down the street, there are stores like walgreens and a w others that were vandalized. But right here in my location, thank god, we didnhave any injury entry. But outfront, we were damaged. Katty when youve watched the protests turn violent in the center of h atlanta as the done over the last few days, whats your reaction . You have any sympathy for the people who are perpetrating the violence . Of course, i cannot believe it. I am praying constantly, every minute of the day. Even when it happed here, i was praying the whole time tha d they did notanything that would be harmful to me. m in here. I was down low on the floor. I was actually crawling in the store to get out of harms way, in case something did happen. Because i did find bricks in the store, a brick and a stone. Door. Nd rock hit my window and it didnt shatter. Theck b damagedt completely. Im just thanking god. Im praying for everyone whos been affected by this terrible tragedy. Butha other than katty it sounds like it must have been terrifying for you. It was totally terrifying. Yes. Without vlence, white americaat, just doesnt Pay Attention to the problems that africanamericans face. Do you think thats true . Well, its so many things to k cus on. I th all need to thank god that its no worse than it is around here, because there couce be more violor us. I just think Everyone Needs to just pray and ask god to continue to watch over all of us as a nation. I pray daily for the worlds peace. All im here for in the communities is just to stay peaceful, focused, prayed up, a america, because there will be peace. I pray for world peace. Katty thank you so much for joining us. We wish you the very best. Thank you. Katty before we go, i wish that i could add a simple final thought on these recent events, but outs weve bee discussing, these issues but as weve en discussing, these issues are complex. Ive been trying to make sense of it. Tc last night, i d dozens of young adults will looting shops adults looting shops, just smashing and grabbing. There is despair. 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