Summary
Protests over the death of George Floyd have swept across the United States. On Business Weekly we ask what companies should be doing to help in the fight for racial equality. We hear from the National Black Chamber of Commerce and the National Retail federation in the US. Plus we get the point of view of a shop owner in Minneapolis who’s premises was destroyed by in the rioting after George Floyd’s death. This is happening against a backdrop of pandemic - we’ll find out why different US states are taking such radically different steps to defeat the coronavirus. Plus after weeks of lockdown in France bars and cafe’s have re-opened - but it’s not entirely business as usual. Lucy Burton presents.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, if a week is a long time in politics, a day is a long time in business at the moment, |
| 0:06.1 | and it can be exhausting trying to keep up with all the latest developments. |
| 0:10.1 | That's why we've interrupted your Business Daily pod feed to bring you Business Weekly, |
| 0:14.4 | a new weekend program which brings you an hour of the most interesting, inspiring, |
| 0:19.8 | and thought-provoking stories you might |
| 0:21.3 | have missed from the BBC's business team. |
| 0:28.1 | Hello, I'm Lucy Burton and welcome to Business Weekly, the show that takes an in-depth |
| 0:32.6 | look at the big business stories of the past week. And this was a week that was of course |
| 0:37.0 | dominated by protests in the United States over the killing of George Floyd. |
| 0:41.4 | An African-American man who died after a policeman knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes. |
| 0:46.7 | We'll be taking a closer look at the repercussions of the ensuing protests in just a moment. |
| 0:52.0 | We'll also look at the way different US states have reacted to COVID-19 |
| 0:56.2 | and hear from a public health expert who says restrictions may be lifted too soon in rural areas, |
| 1:01.8 | which haven't yet felt the full force of the virus. |
| 1:04.6 | And we've got a great tale from Zimbabwe, |
| 1:06.8 | where a film about cooking and love has been picked up by Netflix and shown around the world. |
| 1:11.8 | Let's start off, though, with the unrest in the United States. |
| 1:15.6 | Since George Floyd's death at the hands of the police on the 25th of May, protests have swept |
| 1:20.7 | across the country. His murder has reignited deep-seated anger over not just the killings of |
| 1:26.5 | Black Americans by the police, but the racism |
| 1:29.0 | faced daily by people of colour. Some of the protests have been peaceful, others have not. |
| 1:34.2 | Joining in with the protests and giving voice to outrage have not only been activists, celebrities |
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