US remembers George Floyd

美国缅怀乔治·弗洛伊德

Global News Podcast

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2025-05-26

30 分钟
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Family of George Floyd promise to continue campaign for racial justice. Also: Spain calls for arms embargo against Israel over the war in Gaza. And male MPs in New Zealand describe their clothing to support female colleague.
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Julia McFarlane, and in the early hours of Monday, 26th of May, these are our main stories.

  • Commemorations in the United States to mark five years since the death of George Floyd.

  • Spain calls for an arms embargo against Israel over the war in Gaza.

  • And the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, condemns the silence of world leaders.

  • Also in this podcast...

  • This election is weaker.

  • A voting centre like this one,

  • which I've been coming to for a long time, is normally full at this hour.

  • Venezuela holds parliamentary elections boycotted by the opposition.

  • In 2020,

  • the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin thrust the Black Lives Matter movement into the global spotlight.

  • Millions of Americans turned out for some of the largest demonstrations in recent US history,

  • calling for police accountability and racial justice.

  • At the time, governments and companies promised to address bias and discrimination.

  • Exactly five years on,

  • there are fears that the current US administration under President Trump is rolling back on reforms aimed at tackling police violence.

  • This week,

  • the Justice Department announced it was scrapping investigations involving police brutality filed in the aftermath of George Floyd's killing.

  • The civil rights attorney, Ben Crump,