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America In Crisis, Tensions High After Atlanta Police Charged In Fatal Shooting; President Trump Threatens Protesters With 10 Years In Prison; Fight Over Historical Monuments Expands Across United States; White Lives Matter Banner Flies Over U.K. Stadium; NASCAR Drivers, Crew Show Support For Bubba Wallace; NASCAR Investigating Noose Found In Restricted Area; World Reacts To CNN Poll Showing U.K. Racial Divide; President Trump Extends Limits On Some U.S. Work Visas; Trump Moves To Calm Worries Over China Trade Deal; IMF, 2020 Recessions Will Be Deeper; Saudis Dodge Missile Attacks From Yemen; Coronavirus Pandemic, Outbreak In Germany Centers Around Meatpacking Plant; Saudis Say Hajj To Begin With Limited Numbers; President Trump Don't Mind Health Officials Warning; Brazil Opens Up Economy Amid Rising Cases; South Korea Now Facing a Second Wave; India's Easing of Restrictions Went Wrong. Aired 3-4a ET
Aired June 23, 2020 - 03:00 ET
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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world. You are watching CNN Newsroom. And I'm Rosemary Church.
Just ahead. As the world edges towards 10 million coronavirus cases, South Korea says a second wave is already underway. We are live on the peninsula this hour.
Plus, after harsh criticism for holding a rally last weekend, the U.S. president moves ahead with another large gathering in a state facing a surge in cases.
And just hours after brokering a ceasefire deal among Yemeni factions, Saudi Arabia says it dodged missile attacks from Iranian backed militias. The details on that just ahead.
Good to have you with us.
A surge in new coronavirus infections has pushed the total number of cases worldwide past nine million. Mexico recorded more than 750 deaths in the past 24 hours, even worse than Brazil. India is grappling with a spike in new infections, as well, adding more than 100,000 cases over the past eight days.
South Korean officials say they are seeing a second wave around the capital Seoul. They blame small but persistent outbreaks over holiday weekend in early May. The U.S. remains hardest hit with more than 120,000 deaths, and 2.3 million infections. Experts warn Florida is fast becoming the new epicenter.
In Western Europe, the United Kingdom remains the region's worst hit country, with more than 42,000 coronavirus deaths. But Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to further ease lockdown restrictions in England. A government source told CNN cinemas and museums will be able to gradually reopen from July 4th with strict social distancing guidelines.
And our Anna Stewart is in London with more, she joins us now live. Good to see you, Anna. So, it is of course a different balancing act to open up a country when other parts of the world are witnessing surges in cases for doing exactly that. So how is this going to work?
ANNA STEWART, CNN REPORTER: Yes, and that will be the big concern for the U.K. Cases continue to fall here. And yesterday the U.K. registered its lowest daily death rate from COVID since the pandemic began, just 15 people.
The announcement today will set out which businesses and which sectors can reopen. Nonetheless, we expect pubs, restaurants, as you mentioned, cinemas even and museums. And then how they can reopen, what measures will need to be in place to keep people safe. It's certainly won't be a pre-pandemic normal reopening.
And part of that the big announcement will be announce to be on social distancing. Currently in the U.K., the rule is for two meters to be maintained where possible and social distancing. That could be reduced to just one meter which make a big difference for many of these businesses, particularly in the hospitality sector.
Everything we expect to hear today though, Rosemary, will come with a caveat from the government. Should the R rate right, should the virus start to spread, they could put the hand break on, you can expect lockdown to be put back into either isolated cases around the U.K., whether there is an outbreak or it could be full nationwide lockdown again.
So, there will be a caveat in recognition of the some of the outbreaks we're seeing outside of the U.K.
CHURCH: And Anna, in the middle of all of that how much progress is being achieved with testing, contract tracing and isolating of cases in the U.K.?
COREN: OK. Well, on the testing front, now anyone that has a major symptom of coronavirus can order a test. So that is much better than it was just a few weeks ago. The U.K. has also actually trialing out a saliva test, where you could put spit into a pot which would be much more pleasant than the swapping test that might make it easier to roll out more testing as well.
Antibody testing hasn't yet rolled out to the general public as of yet. Contact tracing has been something of an embarrassment for the government here. They had hails that they were creating a contact tracing app, which they did create and they did try, it just didn't work. They had called it world leading and it certainly wasn't. They're now looking to work with Google and Apple on a new app but that could take months before it's ready.
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They do have to additional contact tracing in place, it's still fairly new. Only go up and running a couple of weeks ago. The first week as we had out showed that around a third of people that were contacted being told they needed to go into self-isolation weren't reachable. So, it's not done so well on the contract tracing. Rosemary.
CHURCH: Yes. It seems word that that's not working in the country, that country is really struggling. We'll keep an eye on that.
Anna Stewart joining us live from London. Many thanks.
Well, South Korea's Centers for Disease Control says a second wave of the coronavirus outbreak is already underway. The case CDC's director said in a briefing Monday, regional outbreaks are occurring and more are expected. Health authorities are getting enough hospital beds ready to deal with a large-scale outbreak as the number of cases is expected to rise in the fall and winter months.
And CNN's Paula Hancocks is in Seoul, South Korea, she joins us now live. Good to see you, Paula. So, calls after being hailed a great success in conquering the virus, South Korea now confronting the second wave in a wakeup call, in fact to all of us. What is the latest on this?
PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, this is a cautionary tale for the rest of the world, Rosemary, but it's also worth looking at the figures we're talking about. They are double digit increases on a daily basis.
Today there was more than 14 new infections, but 16 of those were related to a Russian flagship, which are docked of the southeastern port of Busan here in South Korea, so that was considered imported cases.
So, yes, the figures have not been as low as they had at the end of April. And this is the reason that the KDCDC says that they have decided to call this a second wave. They say they don't adhere to the standard of a second wave of the World Health Organization. They have their own standard of assessing it.
But they believed that the first wave was February to April, then they managed to decrease those numbers to 10 or less new infections every day. But then after the May holiday they say that there was a spike in these clusters, this regional outbreak started once again. They do point out there isn't a large-scale infection.
They, as you say, they are preparing hospital beds, expecting that could come in the autumn or the winter and that is what other countries are calling the potential second wave. But they say that there are regional clusters that they are concerned about. Rosemary?
CHURCH: And Paula, of course, South Korea was the champion of testing. What would they do differently this time and how are they getting on top of this?
HANCOCKS: There's not a lot that they can do differently at this point, that the mass testing is still ongoing. The one thing that has changed is the social distancing rules. They were relaxed during May just before that holiday.
And there have been strict social distancing before and there is a possibility we're hearing from health officials that they could re- introduced that if their numbers remain high over coming days.
But when it comes to what they could do that's new that's different, it's really very difficult to see anything they could do that's different. They're already shut down certain night clubs and bars, karaoke bars after there was a cluster in that nightclub district of Seoul. There are certain parks and museums, cinemas that have been closed once again after there was another cluster elsewhere.
So, it's difficult to see what they could do that's different.
CHURCH: Yes, indeed. Paula Hancocks joining us live from Seoul in South Korea, many thanks.
Well, here in the United States a leading researcher warns the virus will continue to spread like a forest fire through the summer and into the fall. Los Angeles has seen another single day high in cases citing community spread. A new study suggests as many as 8.7 million American came down with coronavirus in March but 80 percent of them were never diagnosed.
Donald Trump now says he never ordered a slowdown in coronavirus testing, but he did tell his staff to much testing puts the U.S. at a disadvantage, that's in direct contrast to what he said at his weekend rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma that he wanted to slow testing to keep the number of cases low. His staff said he was joking.
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BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Is that true he's asked for the testing to be slowed down?
TIM MURTAUGH, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, TRUMP 2020 CAMPAIGN: No. It's not. And as a matter of fact, the United States leads the world in testing. We've tested as a nation more than 25 million Americans and about a half million per day --
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KEILAR: So why is he saying that then?
MURTAUGH: He's -- it was clearly -- I understand that there is not much of a sense of humor at CNN center. But the president was joking, trying to illustrate the point that when you do expand testing, you will naturally expand the number of positive cases that you detect. That is the very point he was making.
[03:10:01] I'm not -- I'm not surprised that you are either unable or unwilling to understand that the president had a tongue and cheek remark there, but that's the point he was making.
KEILAR: Well, I mean, Tim, 120,000 Americans dead and millions of Americans unemployed, I'll tell -- I do not think that is funny. Do you think that is funny?
MURTAUGH: He was trying to illustrate the point that when you expand testing in the manner that the United States had --
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KEILAR: You said it's joke.
MURTAUGH -- in fact in leading the world, you can often use ironic humor to try to --
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KEILAR: Is it funny, Tim?
MURTAUGH: He was trying to illustrate --
KEILAR: Is it, dead Americans, unemployed Americans, is that funny to you?
MURTAUGH: You can ask and re-ask the question 100 different ways. The point that the president is making --
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KEILAR: You won't answer it, and there's a reason why.
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CHURCH: There is a reason why. Well, two more Trump campaign staffers have tested positive for coronavirus after attending the president's rally in Oklahoma. Eight staffers and two Secret Service agents were diagnosed over the weekend. And that's just one of the problems the White House is dealing with.
CNN's Kaitlan Collins has more.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: By the way, it's a disease without question, has more names than any disease in history. I can name kung flu.
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KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: After the president used that phrase to refer to coronavirus on Saturday night, the White House defended it despite criticism that it's racist and anti-Chinese.
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KAYLEIGH MCENANY, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: He is linking it to its place of origin.
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COLLINS: The White House says it's not racist, and that Trump doesn't regret using that phrase. Despite civil liberties groups arguing that terms like that can inspire racism against Asian-Americans. Instead, the press secretary claimed it's just like when the media referred to it as the Chinese coronavirus. Though no major outlet has referred to as the kung flu.
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COLLINS: The media has never called it the kung fu. Calling it the Chinese coronavirus and calling it the kung flu are very different terms.
MCENANY: The media -- the media and your network specifically --
COLLINS: CNN called it the kung flu?
MCENANY: The media and your network specifically have repeatedly used the term China virus and Wuhan virus and then gone on to derive the president as somehow using a term that they had themselves have never used.
So, we can go through CNN's history.
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COLLINS: It's not a medical term, Kayleigh.
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COLLINS: It wasn't the president's only comment from Saturday night's rally that has drawn scrutiny. The White House faced questions after Trump said he instructed his staff to slow down coronavirus testing.
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TRUMP: You know, testing is a double-edged sword. When you do test to that extent, you're going to find more people, you're going to find more cases. So, I said to my people, slow the testing down, please.
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COLLINS: At first, White House officials said Trump was just kidding.
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PETER NAVARRO, WHITE HOUSE TRADE ADVISER: Come on now, Jake. You know it was tongue in cheek.
(CROSSTALK) JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: Did the president --
NAVARRO: Come on now, that was tongue and cheek, please.
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COLLINS: But when the president himself was asked Monday whether he had directed officials to slow down testing, he paused.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did you ask to slow it down?
TRUMP: If it did slow down, frankly, I think we're way ahead of ourselves, if you want to know the truth. We've done too good a job.
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COLLINS: The White House didn't explain why the president didn't say he was joking.
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MCENANY: The president said he used that opportunity to extol the fact that we've done more than 25 million tests. That we're finding more people because we're doing more testing.
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COLLINS: Trump address that partially filled arena in Tulsa on Saturday night. And sources later said he was seething over the rows of empty seats. Though his aides claimed he was in a great mood.
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MCENANY: There's media reports on that he is somehow furious on the plane. There is no grounding in fact to that. I was with him on Marine One on the way there, on Marine One after, he was very, very pleased with how the rally went.
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COLLINS: Video of Trump returning to the White House Saturday night showed a president who appeared deflated with a loosen tie around his neck after campaign aides has assured him nearly a million people had requested tickets.
And after that briefing at the White House on Monday, then you saw protesters gather in front of the White House, in front of Lafayette Park trying to topple a statue of Andrew Jackson, of course the 7th president. They put ropes around his statue, they're trying to pull it down.
And then they were cleared from Lafayette Square, from the park police, the same officers who cleared protesters so aggressively for the president's photo-op not so long ago. They pushed them back to a barrier, to the street behind that park, and instead of close off the park in the hour since as protesters have been chanting, hey, ho, Andrew Jackson has got to go.
Kaitlan Collins, CNN, the White House.
CHURCH: Well, President Trump is back on the campaign trail despite warnings not to hold mass gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic. After his Tulsa rally fell short on crowd size, Mr. Trump is off to Phoenix, Arizona in the coming hours for an event organized by students for Trump. He didn't wear a mask in Tulsa.
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The coronavirus cases are spiking in the state, as you can see from this map. And Phoenix's mayor told CNN she thinks President Trump should send the strongest signal to his supporters to be safe and wear masks.
CNN's Ryan Nobles has more.
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RYAN NOBLES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: After that disappointing showing at his rally in Tulsa over the weekend, President Trump is turning his focus west. He's going to come here to Arizona on Tuesday. He's got two big events planned on that day.
First, he's going to head to the southern border and talk about the wall that he is worked on over the course of his administration and the progress it's being made there. Then he's going to come here to Phoenix that night and speak to a group of young Trump supporters, students for Trump.
And there's already some controversy associated with this visit. That's because here in Phoenix the city council and the mayor have instituted a mass order that requires everyone inside a building less than six feet away from someone to wear a mask.
And the mayor of Phoenix telling CNN that she hopes that everyone that goes to that rally is wearing a mask, and that includes President Trump. Now President Trump up until this point has rarely been seen in a mask, and he's also made a point about how wearing mask is not all that important in terms of battling the coronavirus.
Now, the mayor did tell CNN that she does not expect the city to cite President Trump, but she hopes that he leads by example. Of course, the mask story only part of this narrative. We will also see just how enthusiastic this crowd is, and if they're able to bring in the big numbers that they were hoping in Tulsa to this rally here in Phoenix.
We should point out, it's not a campaign rally, it's put on by a third-party group, but it's still a group with enthusiastic support for President Trump and will be an important part of his reelection message.
Ryan Nobles, CNN, Phoenix. (END VIDEOTAPE)
CHURCH: Well, Dr. Raj Kalsi is a board-certified emergency medicine physician joining me now from Naperville, Illinois. Thank you so much for being with us.
RAJ KALSI, EMERGENCY MEDICINE PHYSICIAN: Thank you, Rosemary.
CHURCH: So, we are witnessing a global spike in COVID-19 infections and in the U.S. an increase in cases in about 23 states and record high hospitalizations in some states. All this as the U.S. death toll surpasses 120,000. How concerned are you about this, and of course, how ready is this country for another surge in hospitalizations?
KALSI: Very concerned. It's an excellent question. And the most important point that you brought up is how are we going to be prepared for the second wave. Rosemary, we have in my area, in Chicago and Chicago suburbs we are starting to see a significant decline, which is wonderful and it's been exhausting. Not only for me and my team of healthcare workers and amazing nurses and technicians, but for the families that survived this.
And some that did not have people that survived this in their families. And our hearts are broken. I don't know how to express that to your international audience. I don't know how to express how we grieve with these families.
When you say 120,000 people, I think when we hear that number every day again and again, we become numb to that number, but every case I remember of the ones that did not survive.
We have flu season right around the corner and we have other viruses that are going to be propagating in the fall, late fall and early winter. And it's going to bring in people with exactly the same symptoms as COVID. I don't know if we are going to be prepared at (AUDIO GAP).
CHURCH: All right. I think we have lost Dr. Raj. We will make an effort to reconnect.
We'll take a very short break, but still to come coronavirus cases in India are continuing to spike as the country hits another grim milestone. We will have a live report from New Delhi. That's next.
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CHURCH: There is nowhere on this planet seeing more new coronavirus cases right now than Brazil. And yet, major cities are moving forward with plans to reopen.
CNN Shasta Darlington is in Sao Paulo.
SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Brazil reported more than 21,000 new cases of coronavirus on Monday with the total now well over one million and rising. The Health Ministry also reported 654 additional deaths.
For the week ending on Sunday, Brazil average more than 1,000 deaths a day, and over the weekend, the total death toll surpassed 50,000. Nonetheless, several Brazilian cities have continued to relax quarantine measures. Rio de Janeiro is now allowing residents to frequent beaches for physical activity, workers are back in offices and shopping malls across the county have opened their doors.
Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has repeatedly insisted Brazilians should go back to work or he says hunger and unemployment will kill more people than the virus itself.
On Monday, he warned that the government was running out of money and wouldn't be able to afford emergency unemployment benefits worth a little over $100 a month much longer.
Shasta Darlington, CNN, Sao Paulo.
CHURCH: India just passed a grim milestone; 14,000 people have died since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. India has seen a sudden surge in infections with a total of more than 440,000 cases so far. And authorities in the capital have canceled leave for all medical staff and order them to report for duty.
CNN's Vedika Sud joins us now live from New Delhi. So, Vedika, what is driving this new surge in cases across India?
VEDIKA SUD, CNN PRODUCER: That's a very important question you ask, Rosemary. I've spoken with a top doctor here in the national capital, New Delhi. He says the unlocking -- that was the word used by the Indian government when they started easing the norms in India. He claims the unlocking wasn't thought through and that's the reason, especially in the national capital we are expecting the figures to go up exponentially.
As of now, the figures stand at close to 62,000. But the Delhi government has predicted that by the end of the month of July, we're going to have half a million cases only in New Delhi, and that's what we're inching towards as far as the entire tally of coronavirus cases in India is as of today. These are worrying numbers.
Now, one of the reasons is that there are a lot of domestic flights that are now flying. Of course, they are limited, but these are also leading to cases of COVID for people. Also, migrants have been returning home in huge numbers. That's another reason why we're seeing some testing positive for it as well. You have the railway trains also working, taking people back and forth. That's the third reason.
So, the biggest criticism coming through right now from medical experts is we should have thought the unlocking of the lockdown through which we didn't. We have liquor shops open, some often time lines in the first few days after those liquor shops were open, not only in the national capital but in other states of India.
Now, obviously, the doctor says that they don't sit in, you know, isolated homes to drink. They have their friends coming over, there are gatherings that happen, all those reasons being given.
The focus right now is the national capital city of Delhi. The Delhi government along with the central government are working towards getting more beds in because half a million is a huge prediction for the end of July.
What's interesting is a spiritual center, which is said to be the biggest temporary quarantine facility for COVID patients should be up and running by the end of this month. It will have about 10,000 beds. We also have train coaches that have been converted into COVID-19 facilities in New Delhi and that also is being implemented at the railway station here in New Delhi.
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So, it is clearly a race against time. As of now, the Delhi government doesn't have those many beds. I just checked their app and they said they have about 13,400 beds as of now; out of which about 6,000 are occupied. They need 80,000 beds by the end of July, Rosemary.
CHURCH: It is a real problem. Of course, every country across the globe has been trying to work this out as they have gone along with their individual challenges.
Vedika Sud, joining us there from New Delhi in India.
SUD: Thank you.
CHURCH: Many thanks.
And still to come, Rayshard Brooks is being remembered in Atlanta, but the anger over his death at the hands of police is not over. The controversy around that investigation, next.
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CHURCH: Rayshard Brooks was remembered Monday in a public viewing at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, one of the most historic churches in the United States. Brooks was killed by police in a fast food parking lot on June 12. His death fueled even more protests in Atlanta. Tensions were already running high after the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota.
One of the officers involved in Brooks' death faces 11 charges, including felony murder. That's not sitting well with some Atlanta police officers.
CNN's Natasha Chen has that.
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NATASHA CHEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Some of the people who paid their respects to Rayshard Brooks today may not have known him personally, but they say they're all too familiar with his experience.
ELI RIVERS, ATLANTA RESIDENT: I feel like the soul of America is really sick that they desensitized when it comes to crimes against people of color.
CHEN: Outside the church today, not one police officer in sight. A spokesperson for the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church said the Brooks family asked Atlanta police not to be involved in the security for the event.
So, streets the city planned to shut down to traffic were open. And a private security team escorted the hearse carrying Brooks to the church followed by his family. A few hours earlier, a full report from the Fulton County medical examiner officially determined his cause of death as homicide. It described two gunshot wounds to the back. And said that toxicology results are still pending.
Also pending is the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's report of what happened the night he was shot to death. Even as the Fulton County District Attorney's Office has done its own investigation and charged the two officers he encountered last week.
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JASON SEGURA, SERGEANT, ATLANTA POLICE DEPARTMENT: We're being attacked. These guys are brothers and we're being attacked by Paul Howard. We do the job to protect. We expect to be protected by our leaders and they failed us. All of them.
NATASHA CHEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Critics including Congressman Doug Collins, question the felony charge against former officer Garrett Rolfe, who was seen on surveillance video shooting Brooks after Brooks aimed a taser over his shoulder as he ran away.
REP. DOUG COLLINS (R-GA): What has happened over the past couple of weeks has been wrong. It is time for the district attorney of Fulton County to step aside and have someone --
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-- and to allow the Attorney General to appoint an independent prosecutor. You cannot prosecute a case until the investigation is over. You don't do it for politics.
PAUL HOWARD, FULTON COUNTY GEORGIA DISTRICT ATTORNEY: I think with those protesters, all over the country they are not demonstrating because they thought Paul Howard did something political, they are demonstrating because citizens in our country, are continuing to die and a high number of those citizens are African Americans.
CHEN: But attorneys for Rolfe insist, that not only were Rolfe's actions justified under Georgia law because he was acting in self- defense, but that the D.A.'s quote, choice to charge him, is justified only by his hopes to improve his performance in the upcoming runoff elections.
A private funeral will be held Tuesday invite only, and once again Atlanta police are being asked not to be involved with security for the event. The family has invited Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, along with district attorney Paul Howard to the funeral. Natasha Chen, CNN Atlanta.
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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: U.S. President Donald Trump, is threatening protesters with serious prison time, after demonstrations near the White House, Monday night. He tweeted this out not long ago, warning they could face 10 years for vandalizing a statue. Protesters in nearby Lafayette Park, tried to tear down a monument of 19th century President Andrew Jackson, before police cleared them out.
And that statue in Washington D.C., is one of many in the United States, honoring controversial historical figures. Some people see them as tributes to heroes, many others say the monument's a terrible reminders that glorified the country's racist past. CNN's Tom Foreman has more on the debate currently sweeping much of America.
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TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: President Theodore Roosevelt, outdoorsman, conservationist has written proudly in front of New York City's museum of natural history for 80 years. Now he is being unhorsed, because of two flanking figures. One black, the other Native American.
BILL DE BLASIO, NEW YORK CITY MAYOR: The statue clearly, you know, presents a white man, as superior to people of color. And that is just not acceptable in this day of age. And it never should've been acceptable.
FOREMAN: President Trump's response, ridiculous. Don't do it.
(PEOPLE CHANTING): Take it down.
FOREMAN: Statues honoring southern leaders of the civil war are falling all over, driven by the movement recognizing justices against black people.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I've decided to not look at it anymore.
FOREMAN: But the monument wars are rapidly expanding. In one community after another, statues of Christopher Columbus have come under fire. He's a hero to many.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's an Italian immigrant. OK. This here, represent something, baby. My Italian history.
FOREMAN: But to others.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oversaw the genocide of 3 million people, and nobody talks about, that we don't discuss, it's not told in history.
FOREMAN: In New Mexico, violence broke out over the removal of monuments to a Spanish conquistador, who brutalized Native Americans.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a monument to hatred. It's a monument to white supremacy.
FOREMAN: In California, statues of a Spanish missionary were toppled. So was one to union general and U.S. president Ulysses Grant, who led the fight to defeat the confederacy, but owned a slave for about a year. And to Francis Scott Key, who wrote the Star Spangled Banner, he also enslaved people.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do we think slave owners should have statues?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No.
FOREMAN: But so did Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington who statues have also been attacked. It is all race of fierce debate, over who deserves public honors and words of caution from historians such as Douglas Brinkley.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, CNN PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN: We don't want to be like the old Soviet Union, ripping down every monument to put new ones up for a new regime. We just need to have a monumentation of America, reflect true American history and not just white male superiority history.
FOREMAN: This is one proposed solution, instead of focusing on tearing all statues down, focus on putting new statues up, honoring people of other races, other cultures, other genders, who played a big role in building this country as well. Tom Foreman CNN, Bethesda, Maryland.
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CHURCH: The English Premier League Club, Burnley has condemned a banner reading white lives matter, seen flying over Eddie head's stadium in Manchester. A small plane towed the sign ahead of the club's match against home team Manchester city. Burnley's captain says, he is embarrassed by the stunt.
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BEN MEE, BURNLEY CAPTAIN: I am ashamed, I am embarrassed of the small number of fans have decided to pull that around the stadium. And completely miss the point. People in there are embarrassed, you know, to see that, and it's not what we are about at all, and miss the point of the whole thing in trying to achieve, trying to do. I think these people need to come into the 21st century and educate themselves.
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CHURCH: CNN's sports contributor, Darren Lewis joins me now live from London. Good to see you Darren. So what more are you learning about this stunt, and of course its consequences?
DARREN LEWIS, CNN SPORTS CONTRIBUTOR: Good morning, Rosemary, well there is a huge backlash, against the stunt. And from the words of Ben Mee, very indicative of (inaudible) in the U.K. in relation to what was a stunt that sparked promotion around the country. For the avoidance of (inaudible), the black lives matter movement, it is a specific response, to the systematic and institutional historic victimization that the black community has had to suffer. Many of them as your contributor a few seconds ago was saying, lost their lives.
So to fly that plane. And to continually respond that all lives matter, that white lives matter, it is a fundamental rejection of that message. Those two statements, Rosemary, as we know are already given. But it is black men being disproportionately targeted, disproportionately killed. Black men and women, being disproportionately disadvantage.
And in this historic period, education is going to be key. But the problem is that this latest incident, is the latest in a string of recent incidents, Rosemary, which have pushed back against the black lives matter message. From both sides of the Atlantic and across Europe, and it's concerning, but it's important that we're not in an echo chamber and that we understand that there is a wider public, a wider message that has to be brought to millions of people. So that we can all be on the same page.
CHURCH: Yes. So very important, and Darren it stunts like this that show exactly why something needs to be done about racism, in the wider community but specifically, here we are discussing football and other sports, so what do leaders need to do when they witness racism like this. What do the consequences need to be?
LEWIS: Well, the consequences need to be harsh to be given, Rosemary. But I think what we need to do is what Ben Mee did, which is care. Which is not ignore it. I've worked in my job for 25 years, and over that time I've seen many news outlets. I've seen many newspapers. I've seen many leading figures, many players, many white players deflect the incident, ignore the incident, choose to focus on the football instead.
Now what was quite interesting, yank back (inaudible). Here in the U.K., Ben Mee, the Burnley player was asked a question about football, and he chose to push that aside, and home in on this issue, because for him, he found it much more important than to talk about the ramifications of the match last night. That is what we need to do. Have people who are allies, and willing to use their platform to continue to shine a light on what is a very important message.
CHURCH: Yes it is critical and there is awakening, and there is a reckoning as well. Darren Lewis, joining us live from London. Many thanks.
LEWIS: Thank you.
CHURCH: Well, NASCAR fans, were allowed to return to the racetrack, for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic on Monday, however the highlight of the event, was not the photo finish, but the remarkable show of support for Bubba Wallace, this sport's only black driver. One day after a disturbing racist incident. And CNN's Dianne Gallagher reports from Aniston, in Alabama.
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DIANNE GALLAGHER, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: In a truly unprecedented show of support as NASCAR's top drivers, crew members, really the entire garage, walked along with Bubba Wallace's number 43 car, pushing it along pit road, as it gathered around the vehicle, as he became really overcome with emotion.
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NASCAR legend Richard Petty, came over to comfort his driver, he owns the 43 car, as they stood around him during the national anthem. After the race were Bubba finished 14th, he talked about what this meant to him in light of what happened.
BUBBA WALLACE, NASCAR DRIVER: The sport is changing. The deal that happened yesterday, I'm sorry I'm not wearing my mask, but I want to show whoever it was, that you're not going to take away my smile. And I'm going to keep on going.
GALLAGHER: Now, according to NASCAR officials, a crew member of the number 43 team, found a noose in their garage on Sunday afternoon. They say that Bubba Wallace himself never actually saw that noose. It was the president of the NASCAR who broke the news to him, before the sport contacted the FBI to help investigate.
Now, what is key here is the fact that, where this was found is a restricted area, meaning that the only people who had access to it were credentials. We are talking about NASCAR team members, officials, security, and medical personnel. NASCAR has said, that once they find out who did this, that that individual will be banned from the sport for life. Diane Gallagher, CNN Aniston, Alabama.
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CHURCH: And of course racism is not a uniquely American problem as we've seen. Exclusive CNN polling has revealed a stark racial divide in the United Kingdom. What black people are twice as likely as white people to say there is discrimination in policing, media and politics? Twice as many black Brits say, they have experience disrespect from police for example. And we first brought to you those numbers yesterday, and now we are getting reactions. So, let's turn to CNN senior international correspondent, Nima Elbagir, she is back with us now, and Nima talk to us about the reaction to this CNN's poll.
NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well the public reaction, has been as you can imagine Rosemary, incredibly emotional. Many of the postings on social media, spoke about feeling seen about really feeling that, now that was back to back up the sense that many black Britons have had. That they experience is not one that many of their white countrymen have believe. They have experienced racism, policing and institutional neglect.
The official response from the Prime Minister spokesperson was disappointing. To say the least. It was incredibly generic. They claimed not to have seen our data, even though our colleague, Luke McGee had been pressing the Prime Minister spokesperson to show him these incredibly important findings.
And also to comment specifically on the respondent's concerned around institutional racism. Around the Prime Minister's own comments, around the Prime Minister's owned used of a colonial era racial slur as in his former job as a columnist for a British publication. To all of that, it was a very generic, we are working towards addressing the concerns of the (inaudible) generation.
This is of course the generation of Jamaican migrants, who arrived 72 years ago yesterday, Rosemary. And it really goes to the heart of why, so many black British respondents to our poll felt unseen, felt unbelieved, if their own government, their own Prime Minister, could not summon a response that was at least appropriate to the gravity of our findings. Rosemary.
CHURCH: All right, Our Nima Elbagir, bringing us reaction there. I appreciate it. We'll take a short break here and still to come on CNN, why U.S. President Trump is extending limits on some work visas through the end of the year, and why some large tech companies say it's a bad idea. Back with that in just a moment.
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CHURCH: President Trump is trying to calm stock market worries, after one of his top advisers cast doubt over the future of U.S. trade deal with China. In a tweet the president said that China deal is fully intact and hopefully they will live up to the terms of the agreement. Well here is a look at U.S. stocks, right now, DOW futures plunge nearly 400 points after Trump adviser, Peter Navarro said, China's complacency in reporting covid-19 early on, led to a breakdown of political and economic channels with the U.S. We see the futures up there, 0.5 7 percent.
Well the IMF, meantime is issuing its own warning, and it says the 2020 recession, will be deeper than initially forecast, and warns of a slow economic recovery, in 2021. CNN's John Defterios, joins me now live from Abu Dhabi. Always good to see you John, so how serious this sobering IMF predictions, and what are the specifics in terms of who across the globe is likely to suffer most during this.
JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNN EMERGING MARKETS EDITOR: Well, that is the challenge with this pandemic, everybody is getting hit very hard, with the exception of China, which is likely still to grow in 2020. Because they had the pandemic earlier. But the central theme was from the International Monetary Fund deeper for longer in terms of the recession which is pretty alarming because their original forecast in April for the year was a negative 3 percent.
They are guiding people to suggest it will get deeper. And there are worries about the second wave of the pandemic. If we bring up the chart here, looking at the comparison between the United States and Europe, and you see the green line there, from the United States, the cases are rising and alarmingly so. And there are other characters, were nation states that are facing similar challenges, and the headlines where all the wrong reasons. Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, population by about 200 million. India were social distancing in the poverty levels make it extremely difficult to fight the pandemic, 1.3 billion people.
And the IMF is now singling out Africa that the wave will get stronger there on the continent. And their lack of finances to fight it on the continent overall. We talked about $8 trillion, of money being funneled in by global economies. The IMF is now suggests that it's closer to $11 trillion. Here's the IMF managing Director of what we can expect and the deeper recessions that's ahead.
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KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA, MANAGING DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND: What we are seeing is that both advance economies are faring worse in this assessment, if you take out especially China, that was first on the curve of the pandemic, and therefore what we are saying is we are not yet out of the woods, we have to concentrate on supportive measures for longer. And we need to think of a recovery that is going to bring forward our world. Not slide it backwards.
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DEFTERIOS: And the big concern of course, the Death Mountains being forward here by the countries to spend so much money and the deficits of the price to pay, and the inequality that we'll see in the economies as well. And I want to circle back to your lead in there, Rosemary, because of the words of Peter Navarro, who is the trade hawk for the White House, and the adviser to President Trump.
He said the deal was off with China when it came to trade and then said he was misinterpreted, then President Trump weigh in and said the deal is on but will Beijing live to the spirit of this deal. It's a $200 billion of imports from the U.S. on agriculture energy and other products.
What is interesting about his is that Beijing is eerily silent and having this disputes still linger on during the pandemic is dangerous, and something the IMF is singling out. And will do so in this updated report on Wednesday.
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CHURCH: All right. We will keep an eye on that, and John, President Trump has temporarily suspended visas, allowing thousands of foreigners to work in the U.S., through the end of the year. Many businesses oppose the move. What are the implications?
DEFTERIOS: Well, we know at least 700,000 people, will not be able to stay in the United States, we have two different categories, temporary visa for workers, to come over on a limited basis, and then the famous H1B, which is used readily in Silicon Valley in particular. And we know the clashed between President Trump and particularly the social media companies of Silicon Valley, they like having the high end technical workers particularly coming from India to settle in the United States, where innovation for investment and this is what makes that tech belt foster in the U.S.
But they were not hesitant to come back against the U.S. President and his call here. President Trump is suggesting this is election engineering if you want to define it, but he's saying, if you'd like to have Americans, we are first on the rehiring for these jobs. But they are very classified jobs in technology. There is a whole long list of companies on the West Coast. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Tesla, Twitter, extraordinary the long list all speaking out against this policy, but you know that President (inaudible) California too liberal for his point of view.
But even the U.S. chamber of commerce which historically is pro Republican said this is not the right policy at the right time during the pandemic. It's a difficult time and a difficult subject and it continues to persist under the Trump White House.
CHURCH: Yes. Absolutely right with that. John Defterios joining us from Abu Dhabi, many thanks. And you're watching CNN Newsroom, still to come Saudi Arabia says it dodged missile attacks from Iranian back militias, the details on that just ahead.
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CHURCH: Well, Germany is seeing a spike in coronavirus cases, health officials are linking this to an explosion of cases at a meat processing plant in the countries west. More than 1,300 workers have tested positive. Authorities are struggling to impose local lockdowns and the increase could mean more restrictions. According to John Hopkins University, Germany has had more than 190,000 cases of coronavirus and nearly 9,000 deaths. And for more on that outbreak, and why some plants are so vulnerable, here's CNN's Fred Pleitgen.
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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Germany has called in its army, after more than 1,300 workers at the Tonnies meat processing plant in the city of Gutersloh, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Local authorities ripped into management, saying in many cases the firm failed to provide the addresses of employees, even as health officials were urgently trying to trace those who may had been in contact with the virus.
I want to say clearly, that the trust we have in the Tonnies Company is zero, the crisis team leader said. I have to say this clearly.
While the company says German data protection laws slow the information sharing process, the owner says he is sorry the outbreak occurred in his business.
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I can only offer my complete apologies and give my apology because we are the cause of this issue and carry full responsibility. Me as a businessman, and a company as a whole, he said.
The outbreak in Gutersloh, is one of the main reasons the reproduction number for the novel coronavirus in Germany has soared. The country's Center for Disease Control said. But it also spotlights what many activist and politicians say are unacceptable working conditions in German avatars with employees often laboring and living in very close quarters. Germany has seen a series of outbreaks in its meat processing industry and the government says it will take action to improve conditions.
The federal government is determined not to be guided by the interests of lobbyists but by the interest of the public, Germany's labor minister said at its core. This is a decision between public well- being or egoistic interests. Meanwhile in the town of Gutersloh, state authorities say they might have to put the entire region around the Tonnies plant under a blanket lockdown.
The source of this outbreak can be found at this specific company, so it is still the case that we are unable to rule out a wider lockdown, the state governor said.
While Germany has often been praised for its strong reaction to the coronavirus pandemic, politicians acknowledge they need to do more to make sure that the meat industry here, does not remain a source of heightened infections. Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Berlin.
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CHURCH: And just hours ago, the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said, it intercepted missiles heading towards Saudi Arabia. Saudi officials claim, it was a terrorist attack launch by Iranian backed Houthi militia, and Saudi Arabia is drastically limiting Hajj pilgrims this year in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Officials announced that the Hajj scheduled to take place next month will only be open to Saudis and foreign nationals already residing in the kingdoms.
More than two million Muslims perform the Hajj last year, 1.8 million of them were international travelers.
And thank you so much for joining us. I'm Rosemary Church. I will be back in just a moment with another hour of CNN Newsroom. Do stay with us.
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