Trial going on in germany neighboring towns im satisfied. Im Rebecca Richards thanks for joining us around 500. 00 National Guard troops have been deployed to the u. S. City of minneapolis after a 3rd straight night of unrest protests have rocked the city since a black man died in Police Custody earlier this week those protests have now spread to other cities including phoenix denver and columbus but the death of george floyd has left minneapolis in particular reeling with sainz of violence and anger i. Can rest across minneapolis for the 3rd night protesters stormed a Police Station forcing the offices im. Side to flee they want justice for george floyd who died in Police Custody over to the fish you. Know where you know now we get a conviction its really good with every woman that we want to convict him with the manicure. I mean the damage and looting the u. S. President weighed in with a series of tweets the u. S. Leader branded the protest as thugs and criticize the mayors handling of the crisis the mayor hit back donald trump knows nothing about the strength of minneapolis we are strong as hell is this a difficult time period yes but you better be damn sure that were going to get through this. The day before had begun peacefully demonstrators gathered to mark George Floyds death chanting his last words. It was a reaction to the graphic video that captured the final minutes of floyds life youll recall. Him with a trust in police at rock bottom the National Guard has been deployed in minneapolis but the armys presence on the street is unlikely to quell the communitys sense of injustice. Our correspondent staff and simmons is in minneapolis 7 its the day after the most serious on rest yet how are things there way you are right now. Well we are on lake streets and im going to step aside for a little bit so you can see in the fog there where you see the fire trucks still trying to put out smoldering fires from last night this whole section in the fall back there was a blaze to more or less and as you can also see this National Guard and state Police Deployed to you theyre cordoning dissolve and trying to keep people from entering this section again however emotions here are still running high there is a good bit of yelling and an assault exchange here from folks in minneapolis again those state troopers so there is no way of telling where this is going but all some chins are this is not going to stop at all and were looking at a very interesting day slash coming night for more protests going before these protests and this incident in particular relations between the Minneapolis Police force and africanamericans in the city what good why is that. Well minneapolis has a sizable Africanamerican Community here and population and let me stop again to the side if you look at the state trooper c. N. N. If you could if you would to look at the Police Department you dont know many africanamerican Police Officers and all those guys are all white now having said that of course that doesnt necessarily mean that there is racism at play here but deeply historically and currently deeply rooted anger here of the africanamerican folks against the police against the white police for what happened to mr floyd and this is not going to lead off and it is not going to be with just a statement from the governor or the mayor saying theyre doing a great investigation now and they need their time people who want to see actions they actually want to see an arrest of those 4 officers who were responsible for what we saw all in this video what happened to mr floyd and theyre saying violent violent protests even looting reporting buildings on fire is actually justified to make a point to make everybody understand thats it they have enough they do not want to see anymore videos of black people being kneeled on their necks and put to death by that action by Police Officers no where in the country not in minneapolis and nowhere in the country thats not in their words absolutely and were starting to learn a bit more about the full place offices involved can you tell us any more about. Well we know that one of the Police Officers had and thats the one who had the neon mr floyd snakehead 18 complaints filed against him they were all closed to only 2 of them with a reprimand that means a letter of reprimand which didnt really. Result in a demotion or anything like this however. Besides that officials here keep. Fairly quiet about more information about those 4 officers nobody knows where they are and thats probably a good thing and nobody knows when those officers and how those officers will be brought to justice any time soon or later and definitely an ongoing situation there in minneapolis Stephan Simmons thanks very much. And president trumps response to the protests in minneapolis has prompted twitter to flag a recent post for violating its rules against glorifying violence in his tweet trump said these thugs are dishonoring the memory of george floyd and i wont let that happen he added that the military was ready to respond then added when the looting starts the shooting starts trumps controversial tweet comes as the platform move to fact check previous tweets the president now says twitter is biased against him and he signed an executive order i mean to check social medias power to censor communications. Page polls that protecting free speech from the social Media Companies say its a politicized approach to law Donald Trumps latest executive order is designed to strip social Media Companies of their existing immunity when it comes to content published on their platform. The choices that twitter makes when it chooses to suppress blacklists shadow. Or editorial decisions pure and simple their editorial decisions in those moments twitter ceases to be a neutral public platform d and they become there with a viewpoint and i think we can say that about others also this week twitter put fact check labels on 2 of the president s tweets that had unsubstantiated claims about voting by mail in the u. S. Twitter said it decided to do so because the content broke its rules on the key issue of voting trompette back and accuse twitter of trying to interfere in the 2020 president ial election and stuff for free speach. The business and Technology Sector is the order could code freedom of speech across the internet while legal experts are warning that it conflicts with the existing law which only the congress and not the president can change it really is a complete misreading of section 230. 00 it takes. A law that has been interpreted time and time again very very broadly by multiple federal circuit courts and just says im replacing all of this with my own interpretation that i have no right to give about how to interpret this that or a law and so no its really not going to have any staying power in a court i may really is kind of just a piece of rhetoric of all or that means the old it will likely be challenged in court ahead of the november president ial election. For more on this lets bring in david a reporter aaron tilton and hi thanks for joining me so section 2230. 00 rather what were just hearing about in that report is often called the legal backbone of the internet why is that well it basically establishes the Legal Framework that most social media actually uses to justify how they work within the comics United States and then more broadly throughout the world basically it says that social media platforms like twitter like Facebook Like instagram theyre platforms and not publishers and that means theyre not legally responsible for any of the content their users upload and theyre actually protected from legal consequences they have the right to vet it to check it and actually remove some of it if it determines that it may violate certain guidelines revolving heat speech terrorism calls of violence extreme sexism things like that but at the end of the day theyre not responsible for it and you know thats kind of created this whole law is a fair response and way we deal with social media today i mean you can post anything to social media site vetted i can do the exact same thing the president can as well so it forms the bedrock that their Business Model is based on and actually the ironic thing is trump himself is one. The people whos whos benefited from section 230 more than anyone else because its given him a direct pipeline to his supporters you know he can bypass the Mainstream Media and talk to them directly so by actually attacking section 230 and attacking the social Media Companies in this way it could open up the door to some real blowback to him where hes not able to communicate as directly to his supporters as hes used to so what is he trying to accomplish by sort of going after this that really is the 1000000. 00 question i mean if you look at it this was all. All came up after they started Fact Checking after twitter started Fact Checking some of the information he was putting out online and at the end of the day it looks like that is what hes trying to nip in the bud he doesnt want to be fact checked and so hes attempting to find a position where the social Media Companies are quite vulnerable saying like look she Fact Checking my information my posts im going to hit you where it hurts and you really have to seize the context of the election i mean shes down in the polls hes behind in many swing states hes facing extreme criticism from the Mainstream Media over his handling of the covert 19 crisis so hes more dependent now on the social media than ever before and this comes at a very inopportune moment for him that theyre actually starting to vet his post and actually his post but as it was seen if they remove this projection and actually change how these social Media Companies actually function he stands to lose more than almost anyone else in this equation and he said he attacked the Mainstream Media a lot for that so this was the same accusations but how likely is it that this executive order will be successful do you think oh well to be absent is not very likely i Mean Congress is going to have to play ball and im talking about both houses of congress to actually get a reinterpretation passed and thats not very likely also as were here in the piece there most legal experts say this will not. Is not very likely that will hold up to scrutiny but at the end of the day this can still have a paralyzing effect for the social Media Companies because at the end of the day theyre businesses this is about the election the election is november the why. House it appears to be is trying to strong arm social Media Companies to give trump Carte Blanche to spread any type of rhetoric and type of interest misinformation he wants to and this could have a real real Chilling Effect on the Business Model moving forward however twitter has so far not sure any sign that theyre going to back down but you know the election is a long ways away in order to see if they can stand up to the pressure and certainly well and tilton thanks very much the detailed explanation thank you and its take a look now at some other stories making news around the world the German Foreign minister heiko mom says a new countries agree that hong kongs autonomy must not be undermined that message comes out for china ratified a new security law giving beijing no control over the territory miles insists that freedom must be up held in hong kong along with the principle of one country 2 systems. Worshippers were out in force in istanbul as turkeys mosques opened for the 1st time in nearly 2 months the government has a coronavirus restrictions disinfectant and disposable carpets were still handed out. Kosovos top court has rejected calls for a snap elections after the Ruling Coalition was dissolved by president how she knew that she he welcomes the courts decision on thursday thousands of protesters rallied in support of new elections and against the president s to create in the small balkans tight. A hostile on the side of north Koreas Embassy in berlin has been forced to close after a years long dispute the city authorities the end had long argued that the hostile violated u. N. Sanctions that forbid property deals with north korea. The worlds 1st war crimes trial arising from the conflict in syria is taking place in the western german city of copelands the 2 defendants and while on i had a alleged torture its worked for the secret service of syrias assad regime in his Opening Statement and when and why hes meet lawyer denied that his client or any responsibility saying that the alleged intelligence colonel was only following orders. Watching that trial closely its sad why must move here in berlin she hasnt heard from her husband and son since 2012 when they both vanished in damascus they could be just 2 of thousands of victims of the syrian secrets. Mahmoud in her apartment in the german capital of berlin the opponent of the regime in syria lives here on her own in exile isnt she this is my husband. Says 2012 hes been missing disappearing in a prison run by the syrian secret service. Just like her son my here. Theyve been mediators for the opposition and have been on their way back from outside syria when the protests against the regime in syria started. Them and i called our son my hair after they arrived at the airport in damascus he said were getting into the car now and will be home soon please set the table. Before it was husband and son never got back home. The Syrian Secret Services crimes are cruel these photos from inside syria in prisons were leaked in 2013 victims of torture photographed by a military policeman who managed to get them out of the country. Today the photos are important evidence against cerns torturers in europe the authorities were investigating them when they made a discovery and 2018 secret Service Members had allegedly come to europe from syria this guys this refugees one of them is this man and where are the alleged head of the department and the secret service he and another suspected secret Service Members have been on trial in germany since april was the 1st trial ever for crimes against humanity committed by members of the assad regime when the trial started syrians opposed to the regime came. Together outside the Court Building to the man that a son be brought to trial for assad himself denies any responsibility or wrong doing. But the evidence against the Syrian Regime is overwhelming. Its kept here at this secret location in western europe. William wiley used to work for the United Nations investigating human rights abuses for human courts in former yugoslavia and rwanda he heads the commission for International Justice and accountability and gathers evidence against assads regime. Basically. What you have in this room are materials generated by the Security Intelligence structures im sure the military structures of syria. And the party or political structures of syria at the top level and the government level. Records and files of the Syrian Regime cleaned examined and archived especially for the investigating authorities and courts in europe. Wiley and other investigators are financially supported by european governments when the war in yugoslavia ended in the ninetys the International Tribunal was missing many important files to prevent this from happening again the commission secured and smuggled over 800000 documents out of the case of the syrian civil war. Why do you convinced that it will be enough to prove the syrian leadership responsibility for human rights abuses. As those found while mom are living in exile in berlin. We have caught up again with the. Night biggest dream is to see the leadership to justice. Isnt a process that mahmoud hopes that one day all the crude halves of assads regime will come to light. Joining me now is a lawyer and founder of the European Center for constitutional and human rights the organization is helping the victims in this trial mr tulloch thank you for joining me give us a sense of just how important this trial is for the victims and their families. I mean we just heard from one of the victims. That she and others want the main perpetrators of the government the heads of the secret services to to to to to sit on trial we are or were far away from it because the u. N. Security Council Blocks any kind of resolution put them on trial for example at the International Criminal court are the specialty well meanwhile european jurisdictions european prosecutors are heavily investigate and so the coronets try only just reported about is quite important because we see a colonel on the trial and its the 1st european trial of this kind and we hope that this is a setting an example and this is will trigger other trials in other cities of europe and then at the end of the prosecution all International Level. Now the offenders are not german the victims arent german i have but the trial is taking place here what makes that possible. Now the principle of universal jurisdiction which we know already since more than 20 years because that was the principle which led to the to the arrest of her former chilean. Dictator Augusto Pinochet in london in 98 and since then many waves of of different prosecutions of perpetrators of torture of massive goes out being put on trial in madrid enroll in paris london and in germany the problem is only that so far it was not it were it was not the main perpetrators and it was unfortunately also not perpetrators for western states so it was very much based on double standards but still it. It is him or she use this these kind of domestic courts in order to connect the crisis and in order to achieve at some point another level of prosecution on may be in syria in the region or on an International Level right now the main offender in this trial in copelands and why hes charged with some 4000. 00 cases of torture and dozens of murders what are the chances hell be convicted i mean you just reported about once all the evidence thats the documents. We have a number of witness testimonies and we have his statements i mean he he declared that he was active on this post ttyrec he tries to downplay his role but we have many many documents and many witness testimony who had perfectly demonstrate how the systematic torture of who live in the prisons in syria charging that time so i see not many foster abilities for him to escape. And you mentioned before that this could be a possible president and more cases like this could come forward how likely is that. Its i mean my own organisation e. C. S. Are from berlin launched complaints in several European Countries so we have lost our names in austria. In norway and sweden in france and more to come the european prosecutors are welcome connected amongst each other so we have significant investigations in a number of western European Countries and they are in a way all a little bit waiting for the germans because the germans who many resources in this in into this investigations they even analyze the socalled seas are all sort of photos of that of the target corpses and that is a knowledge which hopefully will be will be shared with the other prosecutors and then well hopefully each to walk prosecution unfortunately have to leave it there but paul can collect a lawyer and founder of the European Center for constitutional and human rights in berlin thanks very much thank you. 2 weeks after the german mens bundesliga his youth the Womens League is now also restarting its season players from the 12 clubs kept fit cheering the individual workouts during the 3 month suspension. Germanys female footballers are back in business while Womens Leagues in england and elsewhere have scrapped their seasons the bundesliga will restart its 30th campaign. I think it sends a very big message to the world and not just the womens football world that womens football is back. But the restart does have its issues 1st of all it costs money mandatory coronavirus tests are financed by the f. A. But the clubs will have to pony up for additional expenses like hotels and security personnel and their t. V. Revenues are peanuts compared to the mens league just 67000. 00 euros per club the biggest source of income is sponsorship money that gives an advantage to established clubs like fire munich and perennial champions false board. I want to make clear that anyone whos not prepared to take the next steps will find it very very difficult to play in the womens sport in just league. I think it would be difficult for exclusively womens football clubs to win multiple titles because of their financial situation. Going to. Smaller clubs like a season which has reached the cup final twice could be left behind they are dependent on local companies which themselves are in trouble because of the Coronavirus Crisis they may have to reduce their Financial Support to the clubs or end it all together the clubs cannot expect any help from the f. A. A. Either. As a registered association specifically a nonprofit registered association we cannot give or donate anything to the Business Operations of the individual clubs without compensation. Even turbinate potsdam can no longer make waves in the bundesliga the club won 6 League Titles and 2 Champions League trophies but those successes are unlikely to ever be repeated it with us is do i believe the Current Situation will either stabilize or worsen the clubs dont know what can be invested in the long term whether their partners will still exist in 2 years and be able to invest the same amount that makes it easier for big clubs like byron munich and gulf sport with. The small clubs will have to get creative and hope they manage to pull off a surprise every once in a while. The Boston Marathon has been canceled for the 1st time in its 124 year history because of the Global Health emergency the rice has gone ahead through 2 world wars after a terrorist attack and 20. Organizers are blaming the cancellation on social distancing problems especially crowds gathering along the roads a Virtual Event is to be held instead. Youre watching date on the news dont forget you can stay up to date on our web site thats data dot com and on twitter and instagram f. T. W. News im rebecca is just coming back at the top of the hour. Good shape i dont have time for this now i have to work we never. Really have enough time stress is not good for you its not good for your health sure but how can we stay thin hamster wheel. And at a time Management Help us lead healthier lives. Good shape. Next d. W. Nor even what do they dream of at night. As cleaners they see the face of horror. Their job censoring for the social media industry. In the us there are thousands of socalled content monitors day for day they screw up terrifying images from Online Platform or some horrific job for starvation wage the strain is enormous. The cleaners or sworn to secrecy they are not allowed to talk about their work. And no one asks hopefully or doing. A good. I need to stop there something warm up in. 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