The citys Law Enforcement. Also, germanys s foreign minisr telling the Israeli Government that its plan to annex parts of the occupied west bank is illegal, and procutors i in sweden sayay they know who killd the Prime Minister olaf, more than 30 years ago, but they cannot pursue the case because the suspect is already dead. Im brent goff. Two viewers in the United States and all around the world, welcome. Tonight, and emotionally charged congressional hearing. The mother of george floyd has called on congressional lawmakers to make sure his brother did not die in vain the brother of george floyd has called on congressional lawmakers. The plea came as demands grew to reform policing and avoid more cases of africanamericans dying at the hands of white police officers. The day after his brother george was laid to rest in houston, texas, full onus floyd was in washington, d. C. He called on lawmakers to ensure his brother did not die in vain. When you watch your big brother who you looked up to your entire life died, die begging for his mom im tired. People of all backgrounds, genders, races, have come together to demand change. Honor them. Honor george and make the necessary changes that make Law Enforcement the solution and not the problem. In minneapolis where george floyd was killed, the Police Chiefs promising change. He says he will withdraw from contract negotiations with the police union a push for reform. A plan to conduct a thorough review of how the contract can be restructured to provide Greater Community transparency and more flexibility for true reform. Many protesters believe true reform can only come through radical change. Defund the police has become a rallying cry. Protesters want to defund the police in favor of other community services. Police have also come under fire for using heavyhanded tactics against protesters in the wake of floyds death. In one incident, police fired bullets at dws crew. We are press. This is press, guys. Were media. The u. S. Has promised to investigate the allegations. I know there have beenn concerns from some countries of their reporters having been treated inappropriately, but you and those e countries shohould n wewe will handle them i in a completely appropriate way. George floyds killing has put police in the u. S. Under intense scrutiny. Floyds brother hopes his death will lead to real change. Brent we want to go to washington for more. Good afternoon. We just saw you in that report being shot at by u. S. Police with rubber bullets. That happened twice in minneapolis. Have they been in touch with you about these incidents as part of an investigation . Not with me personally, but they have then in contact with george avella, and Deutsche Welle has made this known to the u. S. Embassy in germany as well as to authorities in the United States. There was a report with the detailed information of what happened and how this transpired from our perspective. I dont know if u. S. Authorities have donone anythingn terms o of ththe local level. It is s one thihing to complaind make federal authorities aware, but it has to go down to minneapolis authorities, to minnesota authorities, and there is where it is getting tricky. There were state troopers involved an metropolitan police involved. This is going to probably take a while. Brent what about the officers you had contact with in minneapolis . Did they ever explain to you why they shot at you or offer an apology . Was there any communication . [laughter] no, there was no communication. The only communication we had was when they threatened to mace us. We did not hinder any Police Activity when we were there, so, no, there was no communication, no apology, but i have to say other colleagues, internationall press teams, tv teams, as well as local and domestic journalists, have had it worse. People have lost their eyesight and got brutalized in different ways, so we got off on the cheap. Brent Minneapolis Police have announced initial steps towards what they are calling transformational reforms. What do we know about that . Yeah, thats a big word for many steps. First was to ban the chokehold. The knee the neck and the chokehold are now banned for the Minneapolis Police department, and it is also mandatory that if another cop should do this and is with another cop, he needs to intervene and stop the other cop from doing that because it is illegal now. Minneapolis is trying to do the right ring. As alluded to in the report we just saw before you got to me, this will be a long and hard walk because the unions are the ones who have the power, and they will fight this. We will seeee what minnnneapolid what the mayor and the police can do to really reform this Police Department really from the ground up. Brent we know Police Unions have been criticized as being the reason why so many Problematic Police officers have been able to get away with crimes or continue working. On sunday, a majority of the Minneapolis City Council pledged to defund the citys Police Department and used some of that money to Fund Community projects. Are the police are they just trying to stop this from happening, or are the police happy to see them not being asked to be Mental Health specialists anymore, for example . I think that a large group or part of the Minneapolis Police department and, actually, Police Departments around the country, are welcoming Something Like this, taking financial means away from for example, beefing up their equipment for riot control, etc. Remember, we have a big discussion in the united dates about the militarization of police, which started in 2013, 2014 in ferguson when it became clear to the public and to the media, to us, what was going on, that police were in humvees and on top of humvees with machine guns. Yeah, it is not going to be easy. Again, they are defunding police. That does not mean nobody is going to dismantle the entire Police Department, but the redirection of specific funds, which come from the federal government, often to those local authorities, local Police Departments, that is maybe a good idea. Brent our correspondent, Stefan Simons in washington. We will follow this story closely. I will say it again we are glad you and your team were able to get out of minneapolis safe and sound. Thank you. The death of george floyd also has Video Streaming Services thinking about what they can do to fight racism. The movie gone w with thee win has s now gone frorom a leaeang streaming servivice. Hbo max has p pulled th multitie oscar wininner from itsts libray after criticism that the film glorifieies slavery a a perpetuates stertypepes. Hbo says the movie is a product of its time whose racist pigeons were wrong then and are wrong today. For more on this and more on the worlds highest grossing but also very controversial movie, im joined by our reporter. Talk to me a little bit about what we are looking at in terms of the controversy here. When the movie was released in 1939, it was considered an instant classic bececause of its music and performrmance, but as time goes by, the craftsmanship of this movie has become less of an attention, and instead, the discussion around the depiction of slavery in that movie has become more and more important. The movie has depicted black people quite content to be enslaved and even full of love for their owners. Im going to show a clip so you know what i mean. Oh, now, ms. Scarlett, you go on and eat just a little. No, im going to have a good time today and do my eating at the ball. If you dont care what folks says about this family, i does. I remember that scene. Ive seen this movie several times. Hattie mcdaniels, who plays mamie, she became the first africanamerican actress ever to win an oscar. Is that correct . Yes, thats correct. Thats why some people say if you take that movie off hbo, it is also erasing her achievement. We also have to note that back then, she was not even allowed to accept that award on stage, so there is an irony. Brent she won the award but could not accept that on stage. That is a little more than irony if you ask me. Gone with the wind has attracted a lot of criticism but is in no way unique in how it portrays africanamericans. Not unique at all. Back then, hollywood was really a white mans world. There were cartoons and movies depicting black people as being uncivilized or as fools that do nothing all day long but to sing and dance allhe time. E. Therere was also problem with blblack facing, for example. That was a trerend that persistd through the 1950s until the civil rights movement. Because now people are more aware of the racist problem and there are multiple protests going on, hbo decided to take that off for now, and it says it is going to put it back but only after it has some Historical Context to it. Brent so, like, and annotated edition . Exactly. Print customers will be able to watch the movie, but it will come with Historical Context . As always, thank you. Tonight, in a rare rebuke, germanys foreign minister has warned israel that its plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank will violate international law. He issued a warning in israel weeks before the Israeli Government plans to make the move, which has also been condemned by several other european governments. First on the agenda, the foreign minister and his israeli counterpart signed an agreement on the German Government provided providing funding for the holocaust memorial. The relationship has been overshadowed by the israeli Prime Ministers planned annexation of the Jordan Valley and settlements across the west bank. Land palestinians claim for their own state. The German Government and our colleagues in the European Union have serious concerns that the annexations could make it impossible to achieve a twostate solution. We think this would be the wrong way to go. The eu has considered imposing sanctions against israel if the annexations goahead. Germany is unlikely to take such tough measures, but berlin takes over the rotating presidency of the eu next month and so must come up with a common stratategy in the eu. The palestinian Prime Minister call bonn, germany to maintain a hard line with israel. This should not come at the expense of international law. This should not come at the expense of palestinian rights. Palestinians have warned they will proclaim a palestinian state if israel goes ahead with annexations. Brent for more now, we go to correspondent tania kramer. Good evening to you. We know the warning has come from germany. Has the foreign minister specified if germany would actually try to prevent a planned annexation of parts of the e west banank . I w was meeting here at fifit with the new govovernment and ds nenew israeli countnterpart f fe German Foreign minister,r, who used t this visit actually to stress that germany alongside the eueu is very w wried, very concncerned about israels plans toto annex pararts of the occupd westst bank as early as july. He also used it to stress that they wouldld considerr this as a violation of international law. He was trying to strike the very delicate b balance as germanys historical commitment on thehe e hand, but on thehe other hand, germanys commitment to internationall law. Brent has there been any official reaction from israel . I think the remarks have been well received as a kind of friendly warning because it was alsoso noted that he s stopped t of detetailing what possible consnsequences t there would bef israel goes a ahead with anannexation. We know that there is a discussion among european states what possible consequences there wowould be. He actually came in n say h he s not putttting threats on the table. He says it is stitill time foror diplomacy a and dialogue. He mentioned a push for negotiations betweween israelis anand palestinians, but i think that is vevery unlikikely becaue israraelis a and palestininianse not been talking for a very long time now. Brent how much influence does germany really have on what israel plans to do . I think germanyny has good relations to both sides, to the palestiniaians and two israelis, but also in the regional context , he also visisited jordan on ts ry short t trip, and a also, germany will take over the presidency of the eu council as well as the presidency of the eu security council, so that will happen on the first of july, so that is the key datate, a actua, also when the Israeli Government could push forward with legislation to parts of the occupipied west bank, so gerermy will h have to deal with this issue, but havingg said that, te israraeli governmenent has alsoe clear theyey will coooordinate e move with u. S. Admdministration, so i think you have to ask whatt kind of p political leveragage e eu has. It certainly depends what kind of consequences that will have. It certainly appears most countries except the u. S. Will not recognize such a move by israel. Brent thank you. The coronavirus pandemic is getting worse globally. New infections hit a new oneday record high this week, but in europe, infection rates are slowing, which explains in part why germany today announced it will lift remaining checks at its land borders beginning june 15. That move will return germanys land bororder to the way it was prepandemic. Entry restrictions were introduced in midmarch to curb the spread of the coronavirus here in germany. For more on this now, im joined by dws chief political correspondent, melinda crane. Lets go through these changes. It is back to open borders between germany and the rest of the European Union beginning june 15, right . One linda well, yeah, mostly. First of all, it is not only other eu countries, but other countries are involved in this. Norway, switzerland, britain iceland as well, what we heard today that there will be real emphasis on the individual conditions in particular countries. For example, spain will not be opening its own borders on Spanish Islands until june 21, and therefore, travel to spain will also not be fully open until then. Or a country like the u. K. , as long as the virus is still rampant in countries, there will be a close look at if quarantine is needed when people travel from there to germany. The advice would essentially be check the conditions of the country you wish to visit or from which you wish to travel and be sure there are not quarantine measures in effect here in germany. Brent what about traveling to countries outside the European Union if you are starting from here inside germany . Melinda travel warnings have been extended to those countries until the end of august. There had been some hope they might be lifted. That is not the case, and the foreign minister explained why that is so. He said germany does not have enough of a factual basis to assess the risk in these countries and he also said, we cannot and will not risk germans being stranded all over the world again this summer or holidaymakers returning to germany with the virus undetected. The point is that when the country closed down in march, germany mounted a major operation to rescue germans all over the world who had been stranded because flights had been canceled, because they were in areas that were viewed as corona risk areas, and that operation went on for weeks and cost the German Government a great deal of money. What they are basically saying is please dont travel unless you have really essential reasons for doing so, to these other countries beyond the eu. If you do travel, you do so at your own risk, and be sure you know how to get back on your own because we are not going to come get you again. Brent thank you. It was swedens most famous unsolved mystery for 34 years, but today, prosecutors say they have finally identified who assassinated Prime Minister olof palme. The case will never go to court, however, because investigators say the men who was the murderer hes dead. It was a murder that shocked the nation. One that for decades went unsolved. Olof palme was shot dead after visiting the stockholm cinema in 1986. Thousands of people were questioned during the course of multiple investigations. Now, 30 four years later, prosecutors say they are finally certain of the killers identity. Steve angstrom, whoho has come o be known in the memedia ass scaa man. Police say he heavily criticized palmes pololitics. He was also very used to handling weapons because of his military background. Angstrom, who killed himself in 2000, came forward as a witness at the time, but police did not consider him a suspect until two years ago. Palme was much loved by many swedes. This the outpouring of love after hihis death, but he had my enemies as well. He opposed the vietnam war and called south africis apararthed regime gruesome. That led to many c conspiracy theories about foreign involvement in the murder. This is one of the Biggest Police investigations in the world. It is often compared with the assassination of jfk and even with bombings. If we look to sweden, it is by far swedens biggest criminal investigation. It may now be over, but it comes too late for his wife. She died two years ago, never knowing the true identity of her husbands killer. Brent a germanamerican philosopher was among the 20th centurys great political thinkers. A new exhibition at the German Historical Museum chronicles her life. She lived as a refugee and witnessed the trial of one of the men who organized the holocaust. Hanna arendt and cigarettes went handinhand. She always had an opinion. She was not too concerned about convention or ideology, as you can now see at an exhibition in berlin. She called it freethinking. Hannah arent did not follow w y school of thought, any program, political party, or customs. That meant she was especially hard to pin down. The fascinating life of a freethinker. A german jew, she fled the country in 1933, going to france and then the u. S. She became a citizen after having been stateless for years. A refugee, she found a safe haven among wrens rather than in countries, which her photos can attest to. All of these are having portraits of friends and relatives. To her, friendships were a net which she cast over her experiences of exile and persecution. A major focus of the berlin exhibition is auschwitz, a topic which dominated her thoughts. In a tv interview, she talked about how she found out about the extermination camps. [translating] it was as if an abyss had opened up. You always felt that things could somehow be made better, just as in politics when things can somehow be made better, but not this. This should never have happened. At the end of the 1940s, she wrote her first big work, the origins of totalitarianism. Which became a central theme for her. Her most Controversial Book was a report on the banality of evil. She followed the trial of a senior ss leader who had been one of the architect of the holocaust. She ft he was a mere technocrcrat, a view for which e was heavily criticized. It is this phenomenon that i have called the banality of evil. Arendt once said no one has the right to obey, a motto she certainly lived up to. Brent youre watching dw news from berlin. After a short break, i will be back to take you through the day. Stick around. We will be right back. D. D. D. D. D. X. Eighteen. The brother george floyd testifies before congress felonies floyd tells the House Judiciary Committee im here to ask you to make it stop. Coolols down c colonial statues gronau belgians consider removing like this is a king leopold the second in the wake of the tearing down of the statue of the slave trade. In bristol england. The Federal Reserve says said the gdp in the us will shrink by six point 5 in twenty twenty. I was able to keep the lending rate at zero to help boost business web possible. Better to give us the analysis