Confirms that washington may be planning to pull almost a 3rd of its troops from germany critics worry its a kneejerk reaction by the Trump Administration that could undermine security in europe. More tearing along with her parents far away after weeks of separation this baby in the ukraine finally meets her family but many others still face a long way. Good to have you with us at a dramatic congressional hearing the brother of george floyd called on lawmakers to make sure he did not die in vain floyds killing in Police Custody ignited protests across america and around the globe the plea the plea by floyd came as demands grow to reform policing and stop africanamericans. Dying from Excessive Force by 5 police officers. The day after his brother george was laid to rest in houston texas. Following his floyd was in washington d. C. In an emotional testimony he called on lawmakers to ensure that his brother did not die in vain when you watch your big brother who you looked up to your whole entire life da da big a boys mom. Im tired im tired of. Pain you feel when you watch Something Like that people of all backgrounds genders and races have come together to demand change on it him on to george and make the necessary changes they make the Law Enforcement the solution and not the problem. In minneapolis where george floyd was killed the police chief is promising change he says hell withdraw from contract negotiations with the police union to push for reform by plan to bring in subject matter experience and advisors to conduct a thorough review of how the contract can be restructured to provide Greater Community transparency. And more flexibility for true reform but many protesters believe true reform can only come through a radical change defund the police has become a rallying cry protestors want to cut funding for the police in favor of other Community Based projects. Police have also come under fire for using heavy handed tactics against protesters after floyds death and they have been dozens of complaints of Police Targeting reporters in one such Incident Police fired rubber bullets at g. W. Stefan siemens and crew they. Were threatened with the birth 6. Were made on your you are in the middle of 6. The us has promised to investigate the allegations. And other have been concerns from some countries of their reporters having been treated in appropriately here you should know and those countries should know we will we will handle them in a completely appropriate way George Floyds killing has put police in the u. S. Under intense scrutiny floyd supporters hope that his death may finally lead to real change. Civil Rights Groups are also pushing big business towards self scrutiny on racism was on has announced its Banning Police from using its facial Recognition Program for the next year the company did not specify why it took the action no but the technology has been shown to misidentify people with darker skin the move comes amid growing calls for Police Reform in the wake of the Police Killing of george floyd amazons facial Recognition Technology was the post to help police catch suspects instead the program has been rife with issues like amazon launch recognition and 2016 aimed at businesses hoping to bulk up their Search Capabilities but it was quickly adopted by police and other agencies like the u. S. Immigration enforcer ice police said the program allowed them to quickly and more accurately identify suspects in crimes researchers warn the companys algorithms harbor dangerous racial biases a 21000. 00 study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Found that the algorithm misidentified darker skinned women 31 percent of the time activist researchers and even the companys shareholders have repeatedly urged the company to stop selling recognition of police those calls have gotten louder after the death of george floyd sparked a global backlash to Police Tactics amazon tuesday vowed to the pressure and said it would halt sales to Law Enforcement we hope this one year moratorium might give congress enough time to implement appropriate rules a statement on the companys website rad. Democrats in the u. S. House of representatives have already introduced a bill that would ban federal Law Enforcement from using facial Recognition Technology amazon for its part has welcomed the move. And Chelsea Delaney who filed a report joins us now in the studio good to see you chelsea whats the flaw in this software why is it misidentifying people of color well if you think about an algorithm and how its sort of makes its decisions based on whats already available so what really happens with these algorithms is that theyre calling a lot of Information Online theyre calling data and that really amplifies human biases because its sort of synthesizing data thats already biased so you get this knock on effect and thats really whats happening with this amazon algorithm is that its using these previous of these previously biased data is online and this is obviously a huge problem because it can really amplify it and make it even more entrenched the biases and policing already that we see in the United States and of course these problems have huge implications for policing and possibly bringing people into situations they shouldnt be and how is it was on going to go about fixing this problem well amazon is sort of saying that its not going to go about fixing the problem right now what theyre saying is that theyre going to sort of ban put a moratorium on this on the sale of this of this program to police but theyre really going to put the ball in congress this court there right now congress is working through a bill that would ban facial Recognition Technology for Police Department so theyre basically saying were going to sort of wait this out and see what congress does because of this should really be a nationwide effort on the on the behalf of the on the behalf of regulators the as if its just amazon thats changing their software were still going to see other Companies Selling this software to Police Forces so it wouldnt solve the nationwide program or problem that theyre seeing a lot of work to be done chelsea lately for a business to us thank you so much. The German Government has confirmed its been informed that the u. S. May be considering a partial withdrawal of american troops from the country this follows media reports that president all tromped had ordered the removal of nearly 10000 troops from germany almost a 3rd of the u. S. Military personnel stationed in the country the German Government spokesperson said that while theyre aware of the report a decision has not yet been made by the u. S. Did any of course want to teri schultz joins me now form from brussels terry do we know why the Trump Administration might want to withdrawal over a quarter of its troops from germany. We dont terry it makes absolutely no strategic sense you know there are these stories floating around that hes angry at chancellor merkel again for germanys very low defense spending it wont reach the 2 percent level for more than another decade at best or that hes angry at her for not agreeing to come to a g. 7 summit this month because she said you know the stage of the coronavirus threat is simply not at a point where i want to travel there is no reason militarily that the u. S. Should want to pull troops out of germany its probably the Major Military in europe and its used not as President Trump often for treys it to protect germany or protect protect europe but as a staging ground and a Training Ground for u. S. Operations elsewhere in the world so President Trump would lose a lot of maneuverability if he were to pull troops out of germany where for example people might you surprised to learn is the headquarters of the u. S. Africa command so yeah we dont we dont understand it people who are looking at this from a military standpoint here in brussels terry were nato has its headquarters. To to these reports of a u. S. Withdrawal from germany. Well as you know nato is job is to keep calm and carry on and make sure nobody gets too nervous and in fact i had the chance to ask secretary general stoltenberg a question about the rumors of the troop pullout earlier this week and his answer was so bland he said well were in constant discussion with the United States about troop deployments in europe he didnt address the question directly at all in fact he did have a phone call with President Trump after this event where i spoke to him and even after that nato officials wouldnt confirm that President Trump even informed secretary general stoltenberg about any specific plans for a troop pullout so we do have some some reports that the president might like to move troops to poland which does spend 2 percent of its of its budget on defense. But that raises other questions about whether troops u. S. Troops should be deployed that close to the russian border and theres just hasnt been any any diff definition on these these stories yet but there is a nato defense minister ariel next week where defense secretary mark s. For a will be getting very pointed questions will this proposal which we have to say is unconfirmed its already drawing criticism from politicians and defense analysts on both sides of the atlantic how likely is it terry that this withdrawal of american troops in germany will actually happen briefly because you think i can dream President Trump better than than anyone else but this is a reason why people arent getting too agitated about it yet you never know if these things floated out of the white house are actually going to happen or if his military officials will have enough influence on him to get this pulled back before it actually goes into effect terry thanks so much that was the correspondent teri schultz in brussels. For lynn is not the only coming under pressure from the trumpet ministration the white house has also asked japan to significantly boost its contribution to maintaining American Forces the u. S. Has guaranteed japans defense since the end of world war 2 it has more than 50000. 00 personnel stationed at facilities across the country washington puts the price tag at some 5700000000. 00 much of which is already paid for by japan the cost sharing agreement is due to be renegotiated axed year japan is already spending more on defense but on its own forces. Soldiers practice landing amphibious vehicles in a picturesque bay on japan south coast drive out open the hatch climbs the hatch and then head back to the beach its as if they were planning to set off a new sure some time soon and perhaps now the officer in command is not allowed to talk to us about back. To the body others its important to train the soldiers one is the driver ones the hands men stories its not always easy to make a team out of them youre pretty through arms because one of them. According to its constitution japan isnt supposed to have an army and many wanted to stay that way. Its a we dont want to pad to fight and was all over the wealth not even on americas sorry thats why were against the drills. Even south tokyo seems to be preparing to enter the military world stage the defense minister recently deployed this destroy into the gulf of amman in an interview he says its a completely harmless mission tarragona is aware of his own power he wants to become Prime Minister would you ban like to play a more active role military role on the world stage we believe are sending our destroyer to the region to get enough information to secure. Where the past safes passage all japanese or japan related to ships are important for us so thats why we sending it were not part of. American initiative nor european or you run union issued every its strictly on our own isnt that risky i mean it could be some kind of coffee you are right why should we be in it but if everythings fine why do you need to wash it in the region what we need to get the information to secure the safe passage all were tankers or other ships so were sending them for information gathering whats wrong with it. Just a recognizance mission. And some people see it differently. Us asian relations expert Glenn Fukushima for example finds the idea amazing. Although i think as defense minister thats what he had to say you know just as one koizumi was asked on the diet. Is it not dangerous for the soul to fence force to be in combat zones he said well to so Defense Forces there by definition that is not a combat zone. That was his answer. Behind the scenes of u. S. Japanese military relations and there it is less easy going than here American Military units stationed has tell me trying to aid missions with the japanese earthquakes for example but since washington has demanded much more money from japan for u. S. Troops tensions have risen considerably it is actually cheaper to have a marine stationed in japan than to have them in san diego so if we pay for the null then they will become sort of mercenary and i dont think you are suppose it will like to do that. Posh words especially coming from one. The wise know and of japan is that possible future government leaders seeking to expand his influence in a big way inside is say there is support for this in the ruling party but less amongst the japanese people. Now let me bring you up to date on the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic the number of corona virus cases recorded in the United States has talked to 1000000 Johns HopkinsUniversity Says new infections or on the rise in at least 19 states in latin america more than 70000 people have died after contracting corona virus as the region emerges as a new hotspot for the pandemic. Thailand has reported no new infections or deaths today its the 1st time in nearly 3 weeks that no cases were reported and the 17th day without a local transmission french finance minister the french finance minister has called for Business Activity to resume faster as the country comes out of lockdown frances economy is set to contract by 11 percent in 2020. Walked around the world have left many families separated its time they can never get back and effect of the pandemic thats proven extremely painful for couples separated from their children born to a surrogate mother ukraine is one of the few countries in the world where surrogacy is affordable and easy to arrange some families have endured long waits to be united with their newborns stranded there our correspondent Nick Connelly sent us this report one month and 3 days late but at least theyre together. And your old us have traveled 10000 kilometers by car through continent in lockdown to finally meet their daughter. She still has to get used to us she doesnt know who we are. Their daughter spent her 1st month with a carer in an apartment her parents only able to see her on a screen. You know hes so sad we were crying just seeing her pictures and unable to do anything for her you just feel so helpless all you can do is wait. As their daughters birth came and went and with no end to lockdown in sight or people are injured elders could do was scour the ukrainian press with the help of a translation app on the lookout for some sign of hope neither the Spanish Government nor the Ukrainian Embassy could help when they read that ukraines human rights on the woman had promised help parents into the country and jumped in their car to drive the 3600 kilometers from their home in madrid to kiev. And the 1st trip was a leap in the dark we didnt know what wed encounter at the borders on route they received a long hoped for permission to enter ukraine yeah i cried when we received this i didnt think a piece of paper could make you this happy. But it wasnt enough. This week was not the czechs and were just 500 kilometers from kiev then they told us no we just couldnt take it anymore they were missing just one document enough for them to be turned back at the Ukrainian Border returning home to madrid with the only option without their baby week later they were back at the ukrainian frontier after 7000 kilometer round trip to madrid and back this time with the right documents and they were finally allowed into the country other parents have been less fortunate separated from their children by even greater distances and still unable to enter ukraine how many babies are still without their parents no one can say with any confidence. That you know weve lost months of our daughters life. Thats super important. It was actually a month of 3 days to leave it felt like a year spanish must sound strange to her she doesnt want to sleep she just wants to listen to us. Now she said i know we sleep. Well. This journey to becoming a