The headlines: the japanese tennis star and world number two naomi osaka says she s withdrawing from the french open as a result of controversy over her refusal to speak to the media during the tournament. she said she got huge waves of anxiety about speaking to the press after matches. events have been taking place in the city of tulsa in oklahoma to mark the centenary of a race related massacre in which up to 300 black people were killed. an alleged assault of a white teenage girl by a black man led to widespread shooting, burning and looting. china has announced that couples will now be allowed to have three children instead of the current limit of two. annual births plunged to a record low of 12 million last year and communist authorities worry it ll get steadily harder to support hundreds of millions of retirees.
Naomi osaka says she s withdrawing from the french open as a result of controversy over her refusal to speak to the media during the tournament. she said she got huge waves of anxiety about speaking to the press after matches. events have been taking place in the city of tulsa in oklahoma to mark the centenary of a race related massacre in which up to 300 black people were killed. an alleged assault of a white teenage girl by a black man led to widespread shooting, burning and looting. china has announced that couples will now be allowed to have three children instead of the current limit of two. annual births plunged to a record low of 12 million last year and communist authorities worry it ll get steadily harder to support hundreds of millions of retirees. now on bbc news the media show with mobeen azhar.
Robert turner is the reverend at the vernon ame church. it was one of several burned to the ground during the massacre. the church was rebuilt with parishioners money as the insurers refused to pay out. after the massacre, - there was this movement by the white community to not ever talk about it because they knew they had gotten away with murder. . they didn t want to ever bring it up, and any of the black- people who brought it up, they were either killed, i run out of town or - intimidated into silence. not a single person was prosecuted for the murders, for the looting or for the arson. not one black family received a penny in compensation. it would take 75 years for there to be any official recognition that a massacre had taken place at all. and now, as tulsa marks the centenary, locating where the victims are buried is onlyjust beginning.
After the massacre, - there was this movement by the white community to not ever talk about it because they knew they had gotten away with murder. . they didn t want to ever bring it up, and any of the black- people who brought it up, they were either killed, i run out of town or - intimidated into silence. not a single person was prosecuted for the murders, for the looting or for the arson. not one black family received a penny in compensation. it would take 75 years for there to be any official recognition that a massacre had taken place at all. and now, as tulsa marks the centenary, locating where the victims are buried is onlyjust beginning. i know what s there. kavan ross is overseeing the search. he says archaeologists now believe dozens were buried in mass trenches. the digging begins in earnest tomorrow to try to find them. the dead, where they fell, were picked up and tossed in various different areas of the city. we don t know, but we re going to act, we re going to get the
Naomi osaka says she s withdrawing from the french open as a result of controversy over her refusal to speak to the media during the tournament. she said she got huge waves of anxiety about speaking to the press after matches. events have been taking place in the city of tulsa in oklahoma to mark the centenary of a race related massacre in which up to 300 black people were killed. an alleged assault of a white teenage girl by a black man led to widespread shooting, burning and looting. china has announced that couples will now be allowed to have three children instead of the current limit of two. annual births plunged to a record low of 12 million last year and communist authorities worry it ll get steadily harder to support hundreds of millions of retirees.