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breonna taylor back in march from louisville. we have this report. reporter: security forces flooded the streets of louisville. to contain the outrage felt by protesters here. they took to the streets because they felt breonna taylor and her family had been denied justice. the 26 are old medical worker died when plain clothes police, investigating an ex-boyfriend on drug offenses, burst into her home. thinking they were intruders, her current boyfriend shot at them. three officers fired back. but it has been announced none will be charged for killing breonna. >> this is what we have in fighting for the whole time, for the last couple months. all the injustice, all the racism, everything. this is just us being tired. >> no justice. >> no peace. reporter: the tension increased into the night, but the crowds were starting to thin out when this happened. >> ooh, they are shooting. reporter: shots suddenly rang out. two police officers were hit. >> one is stable. the other officer is currently undergoing surgery and stable. we do have one suspect in custody. reporter: he has been named as lorenzo johnson, and has already been charged with first-degree assault. >> this is an on lawful assembly. reporter: but demonstrators feel this is just another example of clear double standards. >> where is the accountability for the cops? if i'm a citizen and i commit a crime, i'm held accountable. they need to be held accountable the same way we are. that is what we are out here fighting for, social justice. reporter: the plainclothes officers who shot breonna taylor after bursting interhome will not face trial for killing her. but the list of grievances for those who say they are fighting for social justice just keeps being added to. bbc news, louisville. jane: for more i am joined by human rights advocate martin luther king the third. thank you very much for joining me. can i just get your reaction please to the grand jury decision, the protests, and the two policemen who were shot and injured during those protests? martin: yesterday's ruling, or outbreak in terms of what the system has chosen to do, was a great tragedy of justice, or lack of justice in america. the system continues to appear not to work for african-americans, and especially in this context, african-american women,nd specifically for the family of breonna taylor. for six months people have been waiting for some level of justice to be put in place. and yet when the charges are talked about, it is about an officer shooting a gun, not even in breonna taylor's apartment. and while that is important, the fact of the matter is no one is being held accountable for the tragic killing of this young lady. that should be unacceptable. that is wrong. the system is not working. therefore, the system needs to be restructured and a different system must be put in place so that justice feels as if it occurs for all people. jane: mr. king, two policemen injured last night. your father preached a message of nonviolence. are you concerned that the violence we see often attending these protests and legitimate demonstrations is obscuring the broader message of justice that you are talking about? martin: whenever there is violence, i am always concerned. the other side of the coin, however, is when situations are done correctly, and i will give this example. when jacob blake was shot in kenosha, wisconsin a few weeks back, prior to his being shot, there was no violence. there were no incidents. there may have been demonstrations, but it was after the action -- every action causes a reaction. so it is how police reacted that caused the action. in this context, for six months people have been marching and demonstrating. there's no justification -- i will never condone violence, but i am saying that actions create reactions. so somehow, we have got to figure out how do we give every one a victory. it could be a win-win situation. jane: mr. king, how do you get change, though? you are disappointed with the grand jury decision in this case. how quickly can you get change? what more needs to be done? martin: beyond voting, which could change some things -- and what i mean by that is we have an election, of course we all know this, coming up. and people must vote. there has to be different leadership at the white house, at the justice department. this current leadership is certainly not going to ever address this issue. but the secondary position, there are a letter people now talking about an economic withdrawal. black people in america spent $1.2 trillion last year. if black people decided we are not going to support this economic system, i assure you that there will be some dramatic changes made in a very short period of time. i am not saying that a boycott is what i am calling for. i am saying that there are discussions of that magnitude at this point, because people are so frustrated. jane: martin luther king the third, thank you very much for joining me. martin: thank you. jane: in scotland, college students who live in the country haven't told they will be breaking theaw if they leave their student housing to stay with families. it comes after a major coronavirus outbreak at glasgow university. 172 cases there have been confirmed. and there are now more than 1000 students self-isolating throughout the country. here is this report. reporter: university is all about new experiences. queuing for a coronavirus test was not exactly what these glasgow university students were looking forward to. more tests mean more positive results, and each one then puts a whole flat of 10 or 12 students in these residents into total lockdown. some of the first-year students are now confined to their flat. >> this is a 12 person flat. >> this is our kitchen. >> there's all of our occupants here. reporter: the situation continues with online lectures. three of these students have confirmed coravirus, so they cannot even get to the laundromat. >> staying inside for two weeks after moving to this flat, no newspeople for a week and now having to stay with them for two weeks, not able to leave, it is quite challenging. reporter: this is really tough for teenagers away from home for the first time. but students cannot go back to families who live in scotland, as two households are not allowed to mix. authorities say they cannot point to one single source of the outbreak. they do know therere quite a lot of lot parties in these residents early last week. although it is against the rules, given it was the first few days of freshman week, probably not a total shock. glasco is not the only university with a coronavirus outbreak. critics say these problems should have been anticipated. tougher measures to restrict student movements and enforce social distancing rules are now being introduced. >> can you imagine how awful this is for students right now? my own nephew just started. i think we all know from relatives, we do not want our young people to be living with this, but it is really important students recognize the risk to themselves and to others, and follow the guidance. reporter: 500 students here are isolating, as our students in aberdeen, edinboro, and sandro's. -- saint andrews. cases have been confirmed on campuses across the u.k. the university and college union says students should be staying home and learning online instead. and no one could say whether students might find themselves confined to their halls of residents over the christmas holidays. jane: and of course that is the situation a number of students in the u.s. are also facing. the number of americans filing new claims were on employment but if it's increased last week to 870,000. the latest numbers show the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic might be running out of steam without another government ricky -- rescue package. i am joined now from new york. as we know, congress is consumed with the supreme court. how are people coping? >> we have seen more recent numbers in terms of the number of people applying for jobless benefits and it is an increase of 870,000 in one week. but do not forget, there are still more than 12 million americans that continue to depend on these unemployment benefits to meet their basic needs. so the fact that we are seeing that congress is not likely to pass a new stimulus bill really has a big impact on those that continue to depend on these benefits. remember, the massive stimulu package that was passed at the beginning of this pandemic, a lot of that expired in july. and while both republicans and democrats believe that they should pass a new stimulus package, neither side have really been able to agree on what exactly should go into it. jane: the unemployment figures have actually gone down 12.6 million. that is way down from their peak in may. can you put those figures into context for us? samira: yes. those numbers are coming down. we are not seeing the millions we saw at the beginning of the pandemic, the 12%-plus of unemployment. you also have to remember where we were coming from. just in the month of february of this year, we had the lowest on employment rate that this country had seen in almost 50 years, at 3.5%. so, yes, we're really far away from those big highs we saw at the peak of the pandemic, but we are still very far away from anywhere near where we should be in terms of a normal functioning economy. and what is really worrying economists now is two things. one is a lot of these job losses are going to be more permanent rather than the furloughs we saw earlier on. two, we saw some people were hired back because businesses are able to move to outdoor spaces, but as winter comes, that is not going to happen. jane: thank you very much for joining me from new york. nearly a dozen artists in sudan have been sentenced to two months in prison after a court found them guilty of causing a public nuisance after their play rehearsal was broken up in august. one of them is an acclaimed filmmaker and there is concern that despite sudan's recent efforts to democratize the country, creatives and activists are still being targeted. our bbc correspondent has this report. reporter: the bbc received these exclusive images of the filmmaker secretly filmed from the prison where he spent the past week. he says he has been beaten and is once knee-length dreadlocks has been cut in half. he reassured supporters that he and his coaccused are being treated better after the case drew local and global attention. >> i hope it is going to make a huge change for all the artists in sudan and all the activists and all the prisoners and the people who are suffering from these rules that imprison people and give power to the court system that is beyond what is included in human rights and everything. reporter: the 44-year-old rose to prominence in 2014 with his film, "beats of -- which told the story of the mountains where rebels have fought sudan's government for nearly a decade. it won the people's choice award for a documentary at the toronto international film festival. in august, he was arrested with 10 others during a play rehearsal, and have not been sentenced to prison terms over public disturbance charges. they believe they have been targeted for their politics. he was inducted into hollywood's academy of motion picture arts and sciences earlier this year. a joint cause for the group's release. sudan is in the middle of a delicate political transition. mass protests last year toppled the 30 year regime. hajooj was heavily involved in the movement. a joint military and civilian authority has since taken over, but campaigners are pushing for deeper social and democratic reforms and say some artists and activists continue to be targeted. >> human rights are still in a very volatile and fragile situation. actors from the past regime, whether police or the judiciary, and the law itself, the legal framework itself, is still not fundamentally reformed or changed. reporter: the transitional government has yet to comment on hajooj and his colleague's case. they hope they will be released on appeal, but say they are happy to serve out their sentences, if only to show that more reforms are needed in sudan. bbc news. jane: a look at some of the days other news now. of hong kong's most well-known pro-democracy campaigners says he has been arrested again. joshua wong is accused of illegal assembly or protests last year and violating rules against face masks, which were introduced before the covid-19 outbreak. on wednesday, he failed and attempted to overturning ban preventing him from running in next year's election. a spokesman for alexey navalny says his bank accounts have been frozen and his apartment seized as part of a lawsuit. the prominent critic of vladimir putin is currently in germany, where he is being treated for novichok poisoning. you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come, the chips are down. the producers of belgium's famous freaks are getting indigestion at the thought of a notary deal agreement between the u.k. and the eu. ♪ south korea says one of its officials was shot dead by north korean forces, apparently while trying to defect to the north. the 47-year-old went missing from his patrol vessel. our correspondent has more from seoul. reporter: what we have pieced together from various briefings today, it is a brutal killing where he was left in the water for six hours and questioned by north korean officers. it does seem that defense officials here say an order came from higher up. he was shot in the water, doused in oil, and set on fire. something used to be explained, because north korean troops are said to have been wearing masks. this has all happened since july, where a number of officials right along the border in north korea have been carrying out what is known as a shoot to kill policy. and that we believe is to keep coronavirus out of their secretive state. jane: the u.k. has less than 100 days until it breaks ties with the european union. if the two trading partners cannot reach a deal, one of the eu countries such a be hit hardest is belgium, where leading economists claim thousands of jobs will be lost, and it would affect one of its most popular exports. our correspondent reports. reporter: from farm, to factory, to freak. beium claims its chips are the best in the world. these potato growers feed their own country and many more further afield. britain is a top customer. while farmers here may not have followed every twist and turn in brexit, they are well aware that if the eu and the u.k. failed to strike a trade deal, it will affect their livelihoods. belgian potato farmers have had a really tough time. first, there was covid, with all those bars, restaurants, and stadiums closed. it is us also been a really dry summer, which is bad for the crops. now once again, huge uncertainty over brexit. thousands of jobs along this corridor are in the food production business. economists say it would be the area hardest hit in all of belgium if no trade agreement is signed before the end of the year. this is the family-run factory, one in three of these chips ends up on a british plate. but if the u.k. and the eu start trading on wto terms, a 14% tax will be added to frozen products exported to britain. that means fries are more expensive to make and deliver, and for customers to buy. >> tariffs, in our opinion, is the worst thing that could happen. not only for the potato grower, the processor, but also the retailer and consumer. reporter: after four years of brexit drama, philip just want certainty. >> i would ask all politicians, europeans and british, to come to our factory. if we were to work and he same way, and if we were to play the same games they are playing, we would not have a stable, family-owned business for over 30 years. reporter: this professor is one of belgium's leading economists. her detailed research for the government just before covid struck suggested more than 40,000 belgians would lose their jobs if there was no trade deal. >> i think people think it is over. i think there was a lot of hype around the end of january but now people think it is over. but it is just the beginning. time and time again, we try and explain to people, no, there is still not a deal. we do not know what the future relationship will be between the u.k. and the rest of europe. but i think people are fed up. they just want a solution. reporter: the eu and the u.k. insist they still have the appetite to seal a trade deal in the next few months. without one, belgium, and britain, and many other countries, know they may suffer. bbc news, belgium. jane: those frietes certainly looks delicious. for more than six he five years he has been shaking and stirring readers and then filmgoers first alike, carrying out top-secret work on behalf of her majesty's secret service. i'm of course talking about james bond. he does not really exist, of course, but it turns out there may have been a real mr. bond. this report from the bbc's tim allman is for your eyes only. reporter: he is the world's most famous spy. 007, license to kill, you know the rest. james bond's latest adventure, "no time to die," is due in cinemas, covid willing, later this year. that is the fiction. but here in poland's cold war archives, facts have emerged about a previously unheard of british agent with a familiar name. bond, james albert bond. he came to poland in the early 1960's working as an archivist at the british embassy, but there seems to be more to him than that. >> we know he spent almost a year in poland. he worked at the military attache office. he showed interest in military facilities. he liked women, just like his literary namesake, but there is not a word in the files about martinis. however, there is information that he liked polish beer. reporter: bond was created by ian fleming, the first novel published in 1953. legend has it he was named after the author of a book about birdwatching. the character became iconic, appearing in dozens of films, perhaps inspiring his less well-known counterpart. >> he came to poland in 1964. at the time, "goldfinger" was being shown cinemas. maybe he was playing games with polish counterintelligence. maybe he had a sense of humor. reporter: fleming's creation became a global phenomenon. james albert bond left poland in 1965, and, like all good spys, disappeared into the shadows. the name is allman, tim allman, bbc news. jane: for those who wear masks and glasses during the coronavirus pandemi chances are you have had problems with foggy lenses. i know i have. one japanese designer has come up with a clever response. take a look at this. he has created a mask that looks like a steaming bowl of raman noodle soup. it has all the ingredients. braised pork, bamboo chutes, but they are made out of felt and claty. -- clay. unfortunately this is one-of-a-kind. the artist said he made the mask to cheer people up, but has no plans to sell it to the public. i am not quite sure i would go with that. of course you can find more on that story and more on our website. check us out on twitter. i am jane o'brien. narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... language specialists teaching spanish, french and more. raymond james. the freeman foundation. by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. 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