Life well planned. 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. And this is bbc world news america. [gunfire] nigerian soldiers opened fire on these full demonstrators august on brutality in africas largest country. Human Rights Groups say at least a dozen people have been killed. The u. S. Makers of oxycontin, and drug that fueled the countrys opiate crisis, plead guilty to criminal charges. The u. S. President ial election is weighing heavily on the minds of immigrants and refugees as President Trump rolls back programs to protect them. Katty welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. Of says it has received credible evidence that nigerian secury forces shot and killed as many as 20 people for taking part in a peaceful protest last night in. Vegas for weeks, there have en demonstrations against police motility in the country. Protesters are leveling torture allegations against him now does band and antirobbery scored known as sars. Today the countrys president calls for calm. And indefinite curfew has been imposed on several regions including they goes. Our correspondent is reporting om nigeria. And warning, some viewers might find the images in this report distressing a city in chaos. Across lemos, buildings have been torched as bloody clashes have erupted. This is what sparked the outcry. Soldiers shooting unarmed protesters in the countrys largest city. They are shooting at us they are shooting. Reporter what happened here to the night has deeply unsettled nigerians. This is not the first time the army has been accused of shooting innocent protesters, but the fact that it happened here in what was the most useful protest sites has ignited an already volatile situation. [shouting] what started off as a protest against Police Brutality has widened to calls for quo and in. We are suffering. We are doing our process. Nobody was even hurt. We obeyed the law. Why must be harmless . If we must have this nation in order, let him step aside. Lets take over and put this nation in order. We need a betterment of this nation they should be accountable to us we dont want police brutalizing nigerians anymore reporter this was a protest that was born on social media. More than half of the country is under 24 years old. Last nights events were broadcast online. The end size hashtag has galvanized support. The Nigerian Government is showed the world youre killing your own citizens and sending military to the streets to kill unarmed protesters because they are protesting for their rights . It is uncalled for. Reporter nigeria has been a dictatorship for almost half of its life as an independent nation. Many of its citizens echoed the dark days of the military war. They are determined to make sure that does not happen. Bbc news, lelagos. Katty president jerry buss anaya says brazil president Jair Bolsonaro says the country will not purchase the vaccine, which is odd because they had agreed to purchase the vaccine. It is big news in a country that has almost 5. 3 million cases, the thirdhighest tally in the world find only america and india. South america correspondent katy watson joins us live. Our the brazilians going for a chinese vaccine or not, katie . Katie if you want an example of how political covid19 and vaccines have become commend this is it. There is history here. The governor for sao paulo, the wealthiest and most populo state in brazil, haseen backing the vaccine from the start. He has been working with the Pharmaceutical Company to dep it. Bu he has been from the very beginning of the pandemic against Jair Bolsonaro in terms of handling it. He has promoted warranty in and urged people to stay home. He has been at odds with bolsonaro in every way. He supported him in his Election Campaign but the two men now do not see eye to eye. At the moment as it stands, he would like to see if the trials pass, the Health Regulator, he would like to see the vaccine rolled out. The vaccine was also backed by the government. But bolsonaro has said that is not happening. He said he did not want the chinese wrecks in adult. Katty yes, in fact he said the brazilian people will not be anyones guinea pig. Did the president get any sense of what the Public Opinion is . Do they want the chinese vaccine . Delay think they have become a guinea pig . Where does it stand . 80 gish the chinese lexie less popular in this vaccine is less popular than the chinese vaccine is less popular than the rest is in quebec scene. Most than our has been critical of china and been very vocal against china. And they are a huge trading partner in brazil so it is a difficult situation. In terms of the vaccine, people here traditionally have been very provaccine. It is a country where diseases like yellow fever, measles and tuberculosis are very real here, something that people have restarted following time. But there has been a lot of misinformation, concern and talk of politics with covid19 and the vaccine. There seems to be less faith in the system and people are calling for a lot of these things into question. In fact it was jr bolsonaro responding to one of his supporters who said they did not want the vaccine. He said, no. We will not have it. Nevertheless, they say they will continue with the trials and they will take it the Health Regulator in they will see where they get to after that. Katty katy watn for us in sao paulo, thank you very much. Trust, of course, is such an important Factor HealthOfficials Say when it comes to tackling the pandemic. When politics gets involved in the vaccine pss, that trust disappears. The company that makes oxycontin has pleaded guilty to criminal charges as part of an 8 billion legal settlements. Experts say the drug played a role in americas Opioid Crisis which has been linked to a most 500,000 deaths since the year 2000. The more we are joined by Michelle Fleury in new york. I should have said they ed to plead guilty. Michelle, what exactly is purdue saying they will plead guilty to . Michelle so the Justice Department came out and announced they had reached a settlement with Purdue Pharma cynical, the maker of oxycontin, a Prescription Drug which was seen as helping to accelerate the opiate crisis in america, in part due to over prescription. At the heart of this is the marketing factor, the marketing practices as this company. As part of this age billiondollar global settlement, the biggest of its kind, the company agreed to plead guilty on three. One of the charges involved in antikickback statute in which two doctors were oppressed paid by perdue between 2009 and 2017 money that incentivize them to prescribe Purdue Pharma products. This come of the prosecutor said, was evidence of the dodgy market practices that went on that helped fuel the epidemic. But critics have bquick to say, hang , this doesnt hold the owners of the company accountable. No individual has yet been found responsible. Katty yes, the sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma, put out a statement saying that they acted ethically and lawfully. So are they denying any involvement in this . Michelle it was fascinating to read that statement. When you go through it, there was a line that says no member of the soccer family had acted illegality. So they were acknowledging that they were owners of the company commit the leaders of this company, the soccer family, but at the same time they wanted to separate themselves from the illegal behavior i just described. Do understand there is more investigations ongoing at the moment. In fact, lawyers today for the Justice Department pointed out that there is still the possibility, this deal does not preclude further action to my further criminal action even against not just the company but also members of the sackler family. They are keen to make this distinction that while they are the owners of this company, they have done nothing illegal. Katty Michelle Fleury, following that case for us in new york, thank you. President Emmanuel Macron in france has paid tribute to the School Teacher was beheaded in broad daylight last week by an islamist teenager. Speaking at a ceremony at a university, mr. Macron said samuel paty embodied the will to live free as a citizen. The check them a government announced the chec czechoslovakian government and us to return to restrictions in europe. Shops except for food stores will close and people will be allowed out only for work and essentials. Neighboring poland is said to bring children in their early teens out of the classroom and get them to back to homeschooling as well. Protesters in thailand said a threeday day deadline for the Prime Minister to resign as thousands continue to defy an emergency been on demonstrations. The Prime Minister said he is prepared to lift the ban but he did not say when. It is the biggest challenge to the authorities in thailand in years. At least 15 people have been kill in a stampede in eastern afghanistan at a football stadium in the capital city, where thousands have gathered to apply for visas at the consulate. It is said to have started as people jostled while waiting to collect the tokens that were needed. To make up an application such a sad story that. You are watching bbc world news america. Still to come, the coronavirus has claimed the lives of many of our loved ones. Some children are learning to cope with the loss of both parents. Pope francis has west support for Civil Union Laws for gay couplesm in what catholic observers say are his clearest remarks yet on hi the issue. Reporter when he was bishop of buenos aires before he became pope, then archbishop gregoriu talked about how he supported Civil Union Laws. His support was in a sense an alternative to preserve the sanctity of marriage for heterosexual couples. In two previous interviews, he is known to have raised support for civil union for samesex couples. This is his clearest language to support it, but it is not a departure from previous positions on the issue. Even though pope francis said this in an interview in not expt that suddenly the church will change in a significant or fundamental way its teaching on the issue of homosexuality. Katty the past four years of. Terms presidency driven by his american first policy, the president has ditched International Agreement he believed gave the u. S. A raw deal. Today we turn our attention to iran. Our correspondent reports. Reporter relations between iran and the u. S. Have not been friendly since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. But trump seaver is probably one of the worst episodes. Iran has been one of President Trumps Foreign Policy issues. From the early days of his campaign, trump made clear what he thinks of the nuclear deal. This was a horrible onesided deal that should have never, ever been made. He said the deal was not containing irans Ballistic Missile program and that it enabled tehran to continue what he calls its destabilizing activities in the middle east in 2018, trump withdrew from the nuclear deal. He reimposed nucleus sanctions against iran including oil fields and financial transactions. This has left the International Community critical of President Trumps policy for the fear it may further alienate iran and push it to the haliners. Rana then there was the killing of general qassem soleimani. The u. N. Called it illegal, and iran responded by attacking two american bases, but no soldiers were killed. It actually seemed to work. Iran has dialed down its activity in the persian gulf in recent months. The question is, will iran come to the table if donald trump is reelected, or will the financial and humanitarian hardships of another four years of sanctions lead to unrest that destabilizes yet another country in the middle east . Cath katty Somali Refugees are watching the white house elections. Some of them had been granted asylum just before the u. S. Government shut its doors to them. The bbcs ferdinand revisits one of those families. Reporter two years ago, a rejecte i met a dejected hasn in an asylum. He had bought air tickets but before he could leave President Trump released a list of nations banned from the united states, among them somalia. The move forced he and his family back to the refugee camp. Since that time, our life is just becoming harder and harder. Because of hardships in the refugee camp. Because we donve any expectation to geany other resettlement. Reporter it took six years for her sons immigration request to be processed. The waiting list is in the hundreds. Hassans hope for a normal life is in the country that accepted and then rejected him. There is no other agency. No other country that is giving us a signal of giving us a resettlement. Reporter in nearly a quarter million refugees live in the area, majority of them escaping insecurity in somalia. With many countries slowing down accepting refugees, the gornment of kenya and somalia have been encouraging somalians to return home. But it is hardly a safe option, with the continuous threat of jihadis group alshabab. Attacks continue in citizen villages. Only three years ago, and devastating blast killed over 500 people when a truck bomb ploded in mogadishu. Added to that are u. S. Drone strikes targeting alshabab leaders. Amnesty international has raised concerns on civilian casualties in these strikes. The u. S. Elections are being keenly followed here by families like hassans hoping for settlements. But the rhetoric against refugees coming from President Trump has not changed. Biden will turn minnesota into a refugee camp. He said that. 700 increase of refugees coming from the most dangerous places in the world including yemen, syria, and your favori country, somalia. Reporter biden has promised to restore the Refugee Resettlement program, which wasffectively stopped under the Trump Administration. Another president coming to the oval office, i would like to make a reservation of my application. Reporter this refugee camp has been his home for over 30 years. He wishes to have his five children have a decent education and grew up in better circumstances that he has. Bbc news, nairobi. Katty whether it is in tehran or in the dada refugee camps, people are watching this election. It has been nearly five months since a george floyd died with the policemans knee on his neck. The gruesome killing in minneapolis thrust of the issue of Racial Justice onto the American Election agenda and built momentum for reforms. But it is difficult to turn political opportunity interview change. Our correspondent returned to minneapolis to find out why. Reporter in the neighborhood where george floyd died, locals who know the streets have stepped in to secure them, with regular patrols to try and prevt crime before it happens, to safeguard the Community Without relying on police. We are just helping our community feel safe against april who were supsed to protect us. They have not been protecting us like we should be protected, so we are taking it upon ourselves without using weapons. We are just peacemakers. Reporter minneapolis was ground zero for movement to change the way the country is policed. With the eyes of the world watching, the city was going to set an example. But it is struggling with just how to do that and facing a backlash. Our commitment is to end our cities toxic relationship with the Minneapolis Police department. To end policing as we know it. Reporter in the charged atmosphere after the floyd killing, these City Council Members pledged to dismantle a Police System long accused of racism and build something new. But things got come. To get it quickly in this northern suburb, there was a dramatic rise of gun crime. Shots ringing out nightly, whizzing through windows and hitting houses. Residents are so fed up,. They are suing the. City they believe the City Councils that the ration emboldened. Whatever the case, dozens of officers have left the force, quitting or claiming medical leave. We have historically had victims of violence by police, that is not new. We live in an urban community. But the siege we are under right now with gunfire every single night, you bring in extra force to stop this from happening in our community. Reporter your credit cards to goals have slowed the City Councils plans. Critics say they are too many unanswered questions. Advocates acknowledge this will not happen overnight. Bullets are not theoreticalp we are seeing a rise in god violence in our city and we have to figure that outp those are precisely the problems we need to be able to solve if we want to divest from our current policing system and invest in something new. Reporter in the meantime, activists have staked a hold on territory as leverage to press their case. They have creatheir own alterne, a policefree zone around the spot where it dying george floyd gasped for air. The conversation has changed since that moment, but of the police force hasnt, not yet, and little has been done to prevent Something Like this from happening again. Barbara asher, bbc news, minneapolis. Katty a reality check their. The coronavirus has taken the lf over 200,000 americans. When these two children lost their parents. Mother from it this summer, they thought it was the hardest thing they would ever go through. Than their father died as well. The bbc has this story. The hardest part from carlos and naomi passing away so close together was that they left isaiah and nathan without a moment a dad without a mom and a dad. My parents got covid. Then they passed away from it. [somber music] we miss you in late june, as coronirus cases surge in texas, all members of the family tested positive. We all recuperated from the covid accepted naomi and carlos, they did not survive. Naomi was my daughter. Carlos garcia was my soninlaw. Still trying to get over it. I just wish my parents were still here to be with us. Reporter the two boys have since moved in with their uncle jacob, who has four children of his own. We were always together. So the transition as far as them feeling at home and with family, that has been easy. [chatter] what has been difficult is they miss their mom and dad very much. My dad was really quiet and i think i got that from him too. My mom, she was loud, but she would be really funny when she was really loud. [chatter] sing happy birthday really quick. 1, 2, 3. Happy birthday to you today is carloss 40th birthday. We wanted to come and spend it here at the cemetery with him. Like us, theres a lot of people out there messing multiple family members. And that is very hard to go through. We dont know if were ever going to be ok. It is tough. We still ha each other. She was loud and she was funny. Isaiah and nathan are missing their mom and dad. What brave children they are. Before we go, restaurants around the world have been coming up with clever ways to keep in business. One hungarian establishment is reinventing the wheel on social distancing. 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