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US election conversations: Black Lives Matter

Three protestors reflect on how race and justice has featured in the election.

We continue to hear the conversations had by Americans ahead of next Tuesday’s presidential election. Today we return to one of the issues that has been forefront of the conversation in the US this year, the relationship between African-Americans and law enforcement. Philadelphia is the latest US city to see protesters and confrontation on the streets after the shooting dead of a 27-year-old black man by police. We reunite three people who we spoke to during Black Lives Matter protests earlier this year to hear how the issue of racial justice has featured in this election campaign.

Also, Turkey has said it will take legal and diplomatic actions over a cartoon of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in French magazine Charlie Hebdo. This is just the latest in a row between Turkey and France, after French President Emmanuel Macron's pledged to defend secularism after the murder of a French teacher who showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in class. We'll hear how Muslims in France and around the world feel about what's been happening.

And every day on OS we are joined by one of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s business correspondents from across the world to look at how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the livelihoods of people around the world. Today we'll speak to our business correspondent in the South Africa, to hear how the economy and jobs of people there have been hit by the pandemic.

(Photo: A member of the Black Lives Matter movement stands at the Breonna Taylor Memorial in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, 26 October 2020. Credit: European Photopress Agency)

53 minutes

Last on

Wed 28 Oct 2020 17:06GMT

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  • Wed 28 Oct 2020 17:06GMT

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