Transcripts For KQED BBC World News Outside Source 20240712

KQED BBC World News Outside Source July 12, 2024

The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundati; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Latest headlines for users and tens of thousands march on washington in a civil rights demonstration. Demonstrators called for renewed htefforts to for justice. Activist al sharpton said it is time to stop the killings. Iv black matter and we wont stop until it matters to everybody. We are going toalk together. The rally comes exactly 57 years after a quarter of a Million People gathered for martin lgher s call for racial equality. We will be live inashington for the developments. Als ahead, britain empty town and city centers. The campaign to get staff back in the workplace. Hurricane laura kills at least six people in louisiana. You are watching bbc thousands of black lives matter demonstrators have gathered in washington to mark the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther e families of black americans shot or killed by police are taking part and they are demanding reforms to the criminal Justice System. The demonstration is called get urv. Al sharpton is one of the most prominent f of the civil rights movement. He says marches will continue until black lives matt to everyone. For too long, you acted like we didnt matter. Theyay everybody matters but everybody hasnt mattered the same in america. The reason we had and still have to say black lives i matter because we get Less Health Care like we dont matter. We go to jail longer the same crime like we dont matter. We get poverty, unemployment, double the others like we dont matter. We are treated with disrespect by policeman that we pay their salaries like we dont matte so wfigured we would let you know whether we are tall or short, fat or skinny, lightskinned or darkkinned, black lives matter and we wont stop until it matters to everybody. Among thoseddressing the crowds were the family of george floyd whose death ignited the recent black lives matter protests around the world. George floyds sister asked the crowd to thihat will be your legacy . I want you guys to ask yourselves right now, how would the history books remember you . Atill be your legacy . Will your future generations remember you for your complacency . Youre in action . Or will they remember you for your empat, your leadership, your psion for weeding out the injustices in the world . Martin luther king stooder 57 years ago. He told the world h dream. I dont thk you know that we are here right now and have the power to make it happen. That was George Floyds sister speaking at the rally. The crowd also heardja frob blake senior. The father of jacob blake junior who was shot in the back and is now paralyzed in the hospital. No justice no peace. Jtice no peace. Jacob blake. Jacob blake. There are two systems of justice in the United States there is a white system and a black system. The black system aint doing so well. Were going to stand up. Every black person in the United States is going to stand up. We are tired. I am tired of loing at cameras and seeing these young black anp brown suffer. We are to hold court today. On systematic racism. Now. Going to have court right guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Aftereistening to speeches, the crowd began marching. Organizers downgraded their estimate for turnout because of coronavirus restrictions brought in by the city authorities to limit outofstate visitors. It is clear that many thousands did coon lining up he streets before the speeches began to have their temperatures checked. The march tas them to the Martin Luther king memorial from the ncoln memorial. They are carrying banrs. We can go now to our correspondent who is at the national mall. She haseen speaking to attendees. Im goingtake issue with one thing. You are describing it as warm. It is 100 degrees here. The marchers deserve a medal and so many ways. Im just standing here and i am hot. We are at the black lives matter plaza that was created after the death of george floyd. I am pleased to have with me someone who was here when this space wasreated because you were at the fit demonstration. Dhow does thfer to what we are seeing today . The main difference is when we were here a few months ago, it was the product of outrage. When you are outraged, you generally want to stand people who think similarly. E have taken that outra and pred it with logic and reason. Now we want Justice System reform, police reform, voting reform. We can convey that message so much better now. People watching the ws networks are also seeing demonstrations, violent a lot of instruction. A lot of instruction. Howeeo youthe narrative for you wanted to be . It is more events like this. You se people wearing masks, taking the proper precautions, not being violent. Coming together for a common cause and not needing to set the nation on fire. We love the country ant we to love us back but we need to do it the right way. We need to reclai that narrative by doing things the right way and wishing reform that will make diffences. I was at the white house last night listening to President Trump make his acceptance speech. We have also been hearing from joe biden who is campgning at the moment from his home in delaware. What do you need to hear from our elected leaders . I dont want them to bigger ckndforth and talk about with the other party doesnt do. Tell me what you truly will do to make us a better country. Dowhat are you going tor us . Dont tell me what theyre not going to do. Tell me what you can do and except that there is a middle ound that is best for everyone. We dont want to be a partisan country. We want all americans to feel loved and to be a part of this cotry. Thank you very much. Ra thank you forng the hot weather along with the protesters. We will definitely talk to you later on. We will keep with that story as we continue. Lets turn now to the u. K. The government will be launching an adverting Campaign Next ek trying to persuade the public with a message to go back to your workplaces if you cant. Schools reopen next week for all peoples and ministers want to encourage people back to the office where it is safe amid fears of the damage to city center economies if working om home bm. Omes the n empty office parks, another symptom of the pandemic. Is is taking a toll on towns. Now, the government is encouraging people to go back where they c. Next week, advertisements will run. Where its possible, people can now return to work. S itfe to do so. Tart tlly, people will return, but i expect we will see more Flexible Working than in the past. It will be for employers and employees to work out the balance. Will be a government drive toe get Civil Servants back to their desks. It is a balanun between the ys wealth and health. Peoples Performance Matters more than where they were. Working from home has been a real bonus. She doest relish the prospect of an office ret in saying smore productive from home. Al it is aced life for any mother. I like to be at home. Mobein productive and working at my own pace. She started her first fulltime job in comnications during the pandemict nd she canit to get to the office. I am working for my bedroom which is not ideal. Vi introductory Virtual Meetings has been weird. Government sources have stressed they are encouraging people back to the workplace only where it is safe saying there is no suggestion those staying at a home arerisk of losing their jobs. There has been confusion over public messaging so ministers have to get th right. In northern ireland, the messagm is work ome where you can. In wales, its the same. In scotland, they say people should not be intimidated before it is safe if we simply get back to normal, the pressure on the important. Rt system is it would create too high of a risk of the virus spreading. Guidance must be firm but clear. The governments plan is critical. Some say they will go with their own pace. Even those wanting to get back know that the worlwill not be same for some me. Authorities in fncere saying the country is seeing an exponential rise in coronavirus se over 7000 new daily infections reported on friday. As the highest t single daal since the lockdown was lifted. People in paris now have to wear masks in public spaces outdoors as authorities try to stop the diseas the manslaughter of vietnamese migrants who were found i southeast england must oober this is the secondan to plead ty in the case. As russia dismissed the head of its Antidoping Agency after he was accused of financial violations. He has died the allegations and previous said russian sport needed to clean up its act. Japans longestvi s Prime Minister, shinto of it, has said he is stepping down because he is struggling with a longterm health problem. He is to leave office after eight years to receive treatmena for ulve colitis. It is the second time he has resigned as Prime Minister because of his help. He made the announcement earlier with an apology. Shio abe said he did not want this to get in the way of decisionmaking. He apologized the japanese pele for failingo complete his term of office. The decades he s hasuffered from a disease. He has resigned once before in 2007 because of hislcerative colitis, a chronic condition that he has lived with since he was a teenager. After treatment, he did return to power in 2012. Now, after weeks of speculation about him being absent from the public eye, in spite of worrying increase in coronavirus cases, he is resigning once again due to the same illness. Even though i have one yearin to gy tenure and with other challenges that have noted been addre yet, amid the coronavirus outbreak, i decided to step down as the Prime Minister. I would like to send my apologies to the people of japan. Ve he has a reputation as a staunch conserva and controversial japanese nationalist. As Prime Minister, he strengthened japans defenses, t he boosted ella terry spending. He failed to revise the constitutions passive article nine. It bans an army for anything otr than defense. He has stimulated growth with his economic policy. He also improvedat rions with the united stas. His government was often damaged by scand. When coronavirus struck, his responses were often criticized as being slow, and effective and out of touch. Whoever is elected to follow him could hold power for at least another year. Stay with us. Stl to come a song for freedom. We will speak tone othe singers of the original march on washington in 1963. There is no doubt that the selection is an important milestone. It will take months and billions of dollars to repair what katrina achieved in just hours. Quite threes weekse longest in his been offduty in 117 years. It was with great satisfaction that the clocknchor swung the pendulum to set the clock going again. This is bbc news. T your knee off our next. Thousands march on washington in a rally prompted by the Police Killing of george floyd in may. Hurricane laura, one ofrfhe most po storms to ever hit the u. S. Kills at least six people in louisiana. More on that storm. One of the most powerful ones it is killed at least six people in louisiana. The governor said the storm caused tremendous damage, was not as bad as originally feared. In texas, the governor sd the state dodged a bullet. We have an update from charles, louisiana. Quite the cleanup has started. Hurricane laura caused some of the worst damage here. A home a lot more debris, shattered glass, and entire everywhere you look, remnants of businesses and homes. Shattered glass were people used to live. It might be a while until they can was back in. Y the mayor of this cs called it something out of a bad Science Fiction film. The time to come back. Is not the power is still out. Hundreds of thousands of residents dont have power. It is still. Raini in the suburbs around the city, trees fell down blocking roads, damaging roofs and walls and doors. Companies are trying to bring back their lives until they can move back in. Understanding h our immune systems respond to coronavirus could be the key for lifere rning to normal in the future. On friday, the u. K. Provided 6 Million Pounds or 8 million to scientists to try to answer some of the big outstanding questions about the new response. What is immunity . How long does it last . Why is it important for vaccines . Our correspondent has been finding out more. Our bodies have become a battleground fighting a virus we have never seenefore. To stop covid19 spread, scientists need to know how does the immune system work . Our immune system has a host ofa weapons ack the coronavirus. Ucial neutralizing antibodies block it from enrsring ves. If any virus sneaks in, kilr cells will destroy the virusinfected cells read this targeted response takes about a week and if it works, you get better. After that, specialist cells start to disappear. Our body remembers the virus so ift comes back, it will spring into action re quickly. The question is how long this immune memory last. Can you get coronavirus twice . This week, hong kong reported the first documented case of reinfection. Happened f months after the first infection, but without symptoms. Itoesnt mean you cant get reinfected. It means even if you get reinfected, you can control it better. Scity for people to hear that immunity is lost buthats not what this study says. Other infections might leave behind some immune memory. If you have encountered ala sivirus in the recent past for example a coon cold, you might have some immune mory that is able to ricky as covid19. Ooasas you come in contact with covid19, your immune memory springs into action. Important for vaccines . Sponse a vacce must producehe same or better immune response in an actual infection. Early results are encouraging. The vaccines do appear to be e effect the animal models. There is nothing surprising so far eout how these vaccines working. They are inducing exactly the kinds of responses we wouldpe. There are still many mysteries about immunity. Research is moving rapidly and scientists hope to haveooore answers donald trump accepted his partys nomination as candidate for president on thursday night with a speech waing that his opponent, joe biden, would demolish the amecan dream. His speech was more than an hour long. It brought to an end to weeks of conventions by democrats and republicans. This years Convention Season was highly unusual. It still delivered plenty of oneliners and memorable moments you would expect. Ner fiddl while rome donald trump is wrong for our country. You want a president who spends hours watching tv and zapping people on social media, s your man. There is no vaccine for racism. This admistration will tear our democra down if thats what it takes for them to win. If you entrust me with the presidency, i will draw on the best of us not the worst. This convention will come to order. Joe biden if the loch ness monster of the swamp. For the past halfcentury, he has looked in the. He sticks his head up renown then to run for president. Donald will not rest untie he has done al can to take this terrible pandemic. Ed by liberty and freed of the american dream, the best is yet to come. Last week, joe biden said that no miracles coming. What he doesnt seem to understand is that america is a nation of miracles. Democrat run cities are being overrun by violent mobs. This is the most important election in the history of our country. [applause] some of the memorable moments from the republican and democrat conventions. Lets give you reminder of our top story. Tens of thousands of protesters demanding an end to Racial Injustice and Police Brutality have marched on the police nations capital. The event marks the anniversary of dr. Martin luther kings ihistorave a dream speech. Stay with us on bbc news. I will be back in narrator funding for this presentation of this program is provided by. Language specialists teaching spanish, frencand more. Raymond james. 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