The freeman foundation. By judy r d peter blum kovundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Im katty kay in washington and this is bbc world news america. A month ago and a lifetime of change. How america and the world have been altered since the death of george floyd. We talked to mr. Floyds brother. Warnings of a resurgence in europe. The who says 11 countries at new risk as lockdown measures are fted. No ordinary day at the beach. Hundreds of thousands beat i the he the u. K. With hardly any sign of social distancing. F people thinkgot about covid and they are having about a holiday. I dont know what is happening. Katty d welcome to wows america. Just over a month ago, no one but his family and friends knew the name george floyd. Police reform was down the list ofic pol priorities in this nation and the idea of pulling monuments from their pestals was left to city council meetings. So much has cnged since the fateful encounter that left george floyd gasping for breath. Our north america correspondent has the story. Nick iththis mon of protest, a new generation has been fighting an ageold american struggle. They are converging on the steps sacred spot where Martin Luther king delivered his most celebrated speech. Black people do not have freedom, justice, or equality. Nick his dream of equality has been continually deferred and we are reminded the wounds of slavery and segregation have never truly healed. Black lives matter. Nick it was Police Brutality that brought protesterhe streets. But it is a deeper sense of racial injhatice t has kept them marching every day of the past month. A multiracial and multigenerational mobilization is claiming tangible progress. This is merging of the past and the future. We understand we are o standingn the shoulders of civil rights. This is our civil rights now this is our civil rights movement. This will change the world. Nick it c is alreanging america. Confederate statues, mormor realizing e champions of slavery, have been brought down and new landmarks have emerged. Into washing black lives matter has been painted on the doorstep to the white house. As for policing, polls suggest overwhelming majorities want clearly defined standards for when officers can use force and consequences for those who do so excessively. Some cities have banned the controversial chokehold. Eethis has b a time o fury and atfrusn, of greater understanding of heightened recognition. It would be a mistake to see this as a moment of national reconciliation. Racial problems have been laid bare, but remedies are still a long way off. It is hard to see a consensus emergingrod defunding the police. The demand from demonstrators reduce policing budgets and reallocate theoney to social programs. The prote leader does sense an important attitudinal shift, with wtes finally acknowledging their privilege. There is a theory about pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and privileges something we cant talk about. White folks realize they have a better set of boots than the black community ever dead ever did. Maybe my boots helped me get to where i am quicker and better because of history. It is a seachange. It is a huge sea change. The tide is tuing in this country and we are a force to be reckoned with. Nick many have seen american beauty in what has largely been a peaceful movement. But history teaches us that when africanamericans achieve progress, it is often followed by a white backlash. This is a moment that has pricked the conscience of a rising number of symperhetic ans. It could easily harden the nick bryant, bbc news, new york. Katty George Floyds brother has become an impassion advocate for justice in the weeks following that tragic encounter on the seets of minneapolis. He testified before congress, speaking of his familys paco and those otless others. He joins me now. He is with t families attorney. Philonise, you have been through a lot. You lost your other your older brother. You have had the attention of the world and the United States on you and you have been grieving in public. How are you holding up . Philonise trying to hold everything together. Like i tell them every day, it is a marathon and we know the hardest thing was laying him to rest, putting him in the groun it hurt a lotu. Onstantly think of the same thing over and over. He said sir and they put him through so much pain. It t hurt a lot, sittire watching him pass. Katty you gave powerful testimony to congress a couple weeks ago. You said there was a bit in the video that struck you where you noticed yrrother, george, while he was struggling and pleading for his life, was caing the officers sir. Why did that part of the video strike you particularly . Philonise he is just a mildmannered person. He is not that type ofuy that is going to try to muscle you and do wrong. He is more of comforting guy. He is always saying things to ring you up. I know he was going to listen to whatever they said, and on the video, as you can see, he did everything the right way. Its just the officers, they just had a lot of hatred in them at that time, because you have to to put your knee on someones neck for that amount o time. He kept hollering, please, sir, please, i cant breathe. Cant breathe. It hurt a lot, watching the video and it hurt me even more when i watched him screa out r our deceased mom. It was painful. Kids had tth look at that. E is a lot of pain right now. Katty there is a lot of pain. Attorney crump, you are representing too many families like the floyd family, who have lost loved ones. I know you said you feel like you are running out of time. How hard i it to get justice for black people in america . Ben historically, black people who have been killed by police were denied accountability. They were denied any kind of justice. This has been the history of america since slavery. But i believe, just as philonise, who articulated it so passionately, that this is the time to see systematic reform behavior of policing in america, especially as it relates to black america. Katty do you have a little bit of optimism that things ght be different this time around . Ben i. In fact, today, i havent even had an opportunity to share it with philonise floydndis family, but the u. S. House of representatives passed the f georyd Police Accountability act today, so we are encouraged that this time right now is our best itopport with everybody around the globe galvanized, saying we cant breathe until we get juste for george floyd. So i am very optimistic. Katty ph your big brother have made of everything that happened since his death . Philonise if my big brother would have seen everything li this going on right now, he preached it a lot, he always talked to the youth and explained to them different things, the trials they will go roh, that this is going to happen and things like that. Just by what h he would see,e would be humbled. He would be sad that he is not here to be in a world that is making change like this, but he wouldha be happyi am advocating for him and the world is trying to get unitetr and we arng to kick a door down that has never been kicked down before. Basically, he would be very excited, very excited. Katty when you were little, what kind of a big brother was philonise he would make you laugh a lot. He would help us with ouwo scho. The sports stuff,y we rea didnt care much about becau we knew we were going to get a chance to play basketball ufd like that. But a lot of my friends, they didnt have big brothers, and they would use my brother to t mam better at things and help them with their homework. He even cut their hair for them. Just different things. It made a lot of people happy, becaushe was loved by so many people. Katty mr. Crump, one of the things noticed about the protest is that there have been a lot of white people at the protests. Perhaps that is something that is different. Whato you want white people in america to do . How can they be most useful to your cause now . Ben that is an excellent question and anxcellent observation. I do believe the protests have en multicultural. You have seen not only black people marching for george floyd, but wte people, hispanic people, native americans, and really, the young people are saying, enough is enough. We dont want to see another hashtag of a black american being killed unjustifiably, unnecessarilynd a senselessly by the people who are supposed to prott and serve them. We are asking everybody to take a breath for peace, to take a breath for equal justice, to take a breath for respect and healing our society, but most importantly, lets take ah bre for george floyd, the breath that those Police Officers in minneapolis give him, so we can breathe again, because we now have achieved change in the legacy of george flos. That when we will be able to breathe again. Katty Attorney Benjamin Crump and philonise floyd, thank you for joining the program. Eyou h been through a lot and we appreciate you coming on and telling us about your big brother, george. Thank you for joining the program. Of course, these protest about race in america have come amidst a pandemic that has disproportionately affected africanamericans in this country, and they are related. E protests, the virus has not gone away. It hasgl become increas clear the coronavirus is still with us and still doing very well amongst us. Ifd you want to understy the coronavirus is picking up right now in several around the world, you might want to look today at o scenesa beach in the united kingdom. It was absolutely packedor. Local auies declared a Major Incident. Out half a million peopl poured onto a beach to enjoy the hot weather. Dyduncan ken has more. Ed these were the unprected scenes on the speech today around half a Million People turned up to use the beach. The opportunity for social distancing was almost entirely gone. Thgh many did try to find a space. This afternoon, the council said it could no longer cope, and declared a Major Incident. Ht r now, the restaurants, the bars are closed, the attractions are closed, you cant go in the arcade, you cat do the fabulhings we have available. Thesean people be spread around those various activities. Hotels will be open. Car parks are open so there are other places for peoe to park. Right now, there is not enough facilities here, so everybody is going to the beach and it is causing problems. Es with many facililosed, the beach was the ly space to go. Declaring it a Major Incident enabled agencies to together and pool their resources amid scenes of chaosng and overcrow if people get too close, we say move over. It is not good. It is obably going to cause a second wave, isnt it . Ch the bes witnessed huge gatherings at other times during th covid crisis. The weather and the golden sands attract ople from as far afield as the midlands. The local mp says you cant go to the beach when it is croded and they need crowded and they need government help. Y tve to be flexible. The government has to be dynamig in recogniust as the big monstrations happen in london, if it requests extra help from a policing perspective, we are ick to support them. The council has sent out message urging people to go. Home the experience of this and other days is that when the weather is this gooto few wanive it up despite the dangers. Duncan kennedy, bbc news, britain. Katty that makes me anxiou looking at those pictures. We were talking about the protests in the United States after George Floyds death. Onerybody was wearing masks. t see many masks on the beach. Health organizations warning of a surge in new cases in a most a dozen other european countries. It is the first uptick in several weeks and it is linked to countri opening up in their theconomies. Who believes there will be more than 10 million casesbe around the gy next week. A former who dirtor who is now professor of Global Health at the University College ldon joins me now. Professor, when you look at those pictures and you see people cwded with no social distancing and masks, is that trfring as a Public Health official . It is frustrating. On the one hand, we have to recognize there are reangrisks of keehe economy closed. Livelihoods, unemployment, people are tired of lockdown all over the world. And we are through the first wave in most countries, but not all. It is a big coern. This week we have had the largest number of cases reporte ever by who. In the United States, you are seeing upticks in Southern States like tas, florida, and arizona. It almost looks like a second wave of cases, but i think it is just the relentless spread across the United States. Your death rates there are plateauing at around 600 per day. In europe, they have had the most deaths of her as a region, 193,000 deaths to date, we had thought we were mostly going through it, but actually, we still have 20,000 cases per day, 700 deaths per dayhe and u. K. Is the largest contributor to that. Looking at the scenesn the beach, although it was hot. Katty isay there ao do this, professor yet is there a way to open up . Rebut he wants to go on holiday evetsbody w to go on holiday. Is there a way that we can have the st of both worlds, have some kind of summer with travel and opening up and keep the virus under control . What we have to get acrtos to people ieally understand, not just all the different complicated rules that the governments are saying, but the reason behind this, social the closer you are, the longer you are together, the more oft , the more you are at risk. It is that simple. If you have an underlying ncondit, and many people have at least onend underlying ion, then you are much more likely to need shielding and particularly if you are over 60, 65. Also, if you get symptoms, you need to understand you should lfisolate, and indeed, if you are a contact you should selfisolate, as well. Which is a challenge. Governments have been successful have had successful test, trace, isolate, support programs. Telling people to selfisolate may t work. Many poor people will need food, finance, maybe employment protection. Katty there are lots of things people need to do. We do know whathe guidelines are, we just need to follow them. Thank you very much for joining the progm. You are watching bbc world news america. Still to come on this program, just when you think it couldnt get any worse, locusts are devastating crops in each east africa. Special report is just ahead. Katty voting has begun an russia on constutional changes that would allow Vladimir Putin to stay in office for another 16 years. Our correspondent has been to one polling station in moscow. E inside on the ballot paper there is just onuestion, do you support the constitutional amendments it is a huge reform packagehat lies behind that one question, and there is an explainer on the s what some of those amendments involve. If you look, they look positive. Access tuaty medicine for everybody, kindness to animals, protecting the environment, only patriots and power it says. There is a key amendment that for the kremlin is the most important, and that is number 81. This is the clause that if it is ldpast, wllow president putin to run for office againaf r his current term ends in 2024. It could see him in the kremlin until 2056. Katty hi i it is fair to say the world is a little bit of a mess right now. Weave a global pandemic, political upheaval, and right on cue, we have a plague of locusts. Huge swarms are eating throu crops and threatening food supplies, and it is the second time farmers livelihoods have come under attack. Our correspondent reports from kenya. Hey advance like an army, eati every plant on their path. Francis watches helplessly as locusts describe stroy his crop. This haseen a model farm. As the officer in this county, s ws his neighbors how to grow food. But this is a challenge he hasal never had to ith. This is a disaster. St affect me. There is another farm there, another one there. In Something Like two days, all these farms will be finished. There is nothing. Eh locust can eat its own body weight dai, and together in a swarm, they csume as much food in a day as 2500 people would in a year. Tracking them is a difficult task. We ha come to a spot them. Supporting efforts to control thlocusts. Heo took us te of the biggest swarms he has ever seen. At wh a spectacular site. This. E never seen anything millions upon millions of locusts, everywhere. Look t att tree. They have completely taken over. You can barely see the leaves. They are eating them. Once they are done and they fly away, it will be left bare. Albert has now trainedeams he works with to collect information on the ground. They feed it through a app to the control center run by the government andoo the u. N. And agricultural organization. With the gps coordinates from the trackers, pilots of planes are able to goo specific areas infested with locusts to apply pesticides. Albert is the new hero in his community. This these people are pastoralists. Livestock mean everything. They call him the locust man. Albert tracked the migrant locusts. Tre are eggs already. E en filmed the second one hatching. Y an incrediblrare thing to see. But also, a sign they may not be winning the fight. If nothing is done, eh time theyreed, they multiply by at least 20. Inching er closer to becoming a plague. Devastating the locusts are causing in farms albert worries about what the future holds. Katty that is so tough for farmers. The second time recently they have had that. Since we are reporting on apocalyptic things, a massive cloud of dust from the sara wafted 5000 miles across the atlantic, creating fog in the caribbean. They have gone hazy brown in the sky. Experts have never seen air quality conditions like this. As if there wasnt enough going on in the world. 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