citizens have fallen victim to his repression executions torture or censorship is not acceptable and you want to hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london man in cairo on al-jazeera. a mass arrests in hong kong as the u.s. secretary of state tells congress it no longer has enough autonomy from china to merit special economic treatment. but i think this is live from the heart also coming up. there's outrage in protests in the united states for police officers have been sacked after the death of an unarmed black man. this is about on us

and it is way bigger than any of us this is europe's moment. the european union proposes an unprecedented $800000000000.00 stimulus package to deal with the coronavirus pandemic fallout. and he was one of the world's most wanted men a court decides where a top suspect in the rwandan genocide should be tried. so then u.s. secretary of state might pompei it says that hong kong no longer maintains a high degree of autonomy from china he says that china is attempting to model hong kong for its own system and that the territory no longer warrants special treatment now that could impact hong kong's position as a financial hub china has proposed a new security law for the territory which many fear it will reduce freedoms we've

also seen protests white house correspondent joins us live now and secondly the white house says extra state of the u.s. actually says she's weighing in on the troubles between hong kong and china. now this marks a sharp escalation again in the war of words that continues between the united states and china the latest coming not just in a statement but also in a tweet from the u.s. secretary of state the last half hour he tweets today reported to congress that hong kong is no longer a ton of us from china given facts on the ground the united states stands with the people of hong kong and in a more broadly worded statement the secretary of state essentially saying that it's clear that china is modeling hong kong after itself no reasonable person can assert that hong kong has a high degree of autonomy from china given the facts now these are very strong words that kind of double down on the statements that we got from the secretary of

state with respect to what he sees going on in hong kong his wording in the last week or so is that he essentially condemned the proposed national security law for hong kong calling it the death knell of the hong kong autonomy and he also said last week that he believes that this proposed law violates the sino british joint agreement and he is urging beijing to reconsider so what this essentially does is it really marks an escalation once again in the war of words that has been going on between the united states and china for some time there has been increased hostility between the 2 it really says donald trump came to office he immediately accused it of taking advantage of the united states when it with respect to trade also saying in fact that it was spying using backdoor espionage through technology and that of course you have to remember that the united states is blaming china for

not doing more to stop coronavirus so this is a significant escalation the latest coming in just the last half hour from the u.s. secretary of state can we think so what can we hope of there the white house we're going to go been protests as i say have one so again flared up in hong kong with more than 300 demonstrators being arrested jury is turned off with police let's hear now from brown who has more. lunchtime in hong kong central business district . police firing pedal pellets to disperse protesters. bringing traffic in one of the world's busiest sar affairs to a standstill. police say this was an illegal assembly this crowd shouted pro-democracy slogans and insults at them in the none of them not everyone is against them though. i'm from china and i support the police screams this woman who's from the mainland the protest is intended target was hong kong's legislative

assembly but a heavy security presence prevented their attempts to reach the building inside legislators were debating a bill that would punish those who disrespect the national anthem. this is what supporters of the bill want to stop the booing that drowned out the march of the volunteers before a recent football match those convicted under the planned law would face a fine of more than 6 and a half $1000.00 and up to 3 years in jail there were many arrests on wednesday with at least one as young as 14 years old detentions that could now risk university and career prospects opponents of this national anthem bill call it another float on the funds freedom and he comes ahead of a move by china's parliament to impose a new national security law on this city. china's rubber stamp parliament the national people's congress is expected to approve legislation on thursday when more

details of the proposed security law will be known in the meantime hong kong government officials are trying to ease fears. it will be conducive to the long term stability and prosperity of hong kong and also helpful to safeguarding the legitimate rights of hong kong people. many hong kong people aren't reassured and they now know the risk for daring to demonstrate their opposition adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. in the united states another death of an unarmed black man in police custody has triggered new protests police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators calling for justice in minneapolis there's been widespread outrage after video emerged showing an officer using his knee to pin george floyd to the ground the officers involved in the attempted arrest have been fired and there are calls for them to face criminal charges john hendren has this report which i should

say contains images that some viewers may find distressing. protesters gathered by the hundreds to mark the death of another unarmed black man in police custody it happened a day after an all too familiar american seen with a black man pleads for help is he struggles to bring what he wants to bring. these are the images on a minneapolis street the man cries out in pain a policeman's knee on his neck. i mean all. i. ever. hear him or. george floyd accused of check forgery is pressed down his face bloody letters when they do. anything. bystanders plead with the officers. he later dies in police custody it is the latest incident of a deadly confrontation between

a white police officer and a black man captured on video yonder would really feel better if you just really feel damn near broke the city's police chief says he sped a sleepless night deciding what to do then fired the 4 officers at the scene i stand before you in the city of minneapolis here to say that our deepest condolences the city's mayor calls the death unacceptable being black in america should not be a death sentence for 5 minutes we watched as a white officer pressed his knee into the neck of a black man for 5 minutes. the scene bears an eerie resemblance to a 2014 incident in new york city where another black man eric garner says his last words to the police officers restraining him i can't breathe after officers were cleared the guard case led to protests across the us police say george floyd had

been resisting arrest bystanders said the force was clearly excessive and when it comes to excessive force in the us the pendulum has increasingly swung away from police in toward the alleged victim officer jason van dyke is now serving a 7 year prison term for this 2014 shooting in chicago with luke kwan mcdonald each week animals battle black law once again demonstrators massed as they've done after similar incidents in new york chicago baltimore and ferguson missouri to demand justice for african-americans across the u.s. and for the police at whose hands george floyd died john hendren al-jazeera chicago . there are reports of injuries after a roadside bomb exploded in syria's italy provinces a turkish convoy passed by it happened on the m 4 highway a main supply route that opposition forces and the syrian government have been fighting over turkey deployed soldiers to the province to enforce

a cease fire agreement with russia the syrian government's main ally. the european union's ambitious proposal for a current virus recovery plan would mark a major economic policy shift for the block but it's likely to face resistance from some countries that use executive arm is seeking member states approval to go directly to the financial markets and borrow $812000000000.00 for that recovery fund the bulk of that money would then be distributed grants to the worst hit countries and a smaller part would be made available as loans but austria denmark the netherlands and sweden there pose borrowing large amounts of money and prefer offering loans rather than grants to the countries in need of assistance well presenting a recovery plan in brussels the president of the european commission that's us live on the land said this crisis forces member states to make an important choice in front of us once again is that same binary choice

we either all go it alone leaving countries regions and people behind and accepting a union of have and have this not have not all we want that road to gether we take that leap forward we pave a strong past for our people and for the next generation and for me the choice is simple i want us to take a new boat step together while a 10 hour from vicky pryce to see the chief economic advisor at the center for economics and business research and she says that the proposal will eventually receive the approval of member states. there are still some countries typically the netherlands added to by austria for example and denmark. and sweden which don't actually think that this is a very good idea but basically beach vacation days of the will fall into line we

may have some slight changes in terms of the composition of that support that's going to be given but i think it's really fundamental in terms of reshaping the way in which support is given to individual countries and to the u.s. a whole in terms of getting out of this crisis in may be you know the shape things to come for the does suggest a lot more coordination and not more concerned about the inequality if you like you know distribution of both g.d.p. and also the pain that countries have been facing because of the crisis and before during the financial crisis and tries to perhaps lead to better conversion something like that the you always wanted to see happen particularly within the euro zone. a 10 day mourning period has begun in spain to remember the more than 27000 people have died during the coronavirus pandemic king phillipe and members of the government have held a minute's silence in madrid flags would also be loud across the country spain is one of the hardest hit countries in europe more than 236000 cases.

at mosco is lifting some of its grain of rice restrictions shops in the russian capital will be allowed to reopen on june the 1st the man may also extend the area that residents are allowed to cover on daily walks the city has been the epicenter of the pandemic in russia with half of the country's 370000 cases but the number of hospitalisations has fallen dramatically in the past 2 weeks. well the russian military says it's opened a field hospital in the hard hit republican diagnosed on our local officials called the outbreak barrack a task to feed and beg the kremlin for help earlier this month medics have also been speaking out saying that with shortages of equipment the death toll was higher than officially reported it's now being sent reinforcements and equipment. 1st ahead here on out 0 dollars drum threatens to shut down social media companies the day after twitter fly into his tweets as misleading plus. you would have never

thought you know after we landed atlantis back in 2011 that you know 9 years later we would be where we are nasa prepares to launch the 1st manned mission to takeoff from the united states in nearly a decade. had i would staying warm and sunny in japan in the korean peninsula and most of northern china as the last belt of rain disappears into the western pacific seiko 272300 degrees away from tokyo back to this part of china further south than the rain is rebuilding the last band has disappeared it's raining in taiwan the forecast was a 6 by friday tsk gathering once more a streak of oranges heavy rain moving up slowly towards shanghai by the end of the day hong kong still in the humid in the case will share

a regime the philippines so the way sea and around the banda arc is likely to be fairly cheri start exactly devoted elsewhere but the concentration is moving north now up into the andaman sea and 1000000 man thailand as the monsoon rains start to break of the sudden but of being goal now that's fine if you happen to be done there but as you well know ahead of the monsoon change you can extract heat 50 degrees in pakistan about $45.00 in parts of this part of india the rain is still falling heavily in the northeast and in bangladesh now big thunderstorms but the more steady rain has been recently and i think will be the next day or so further size so on the coasts or carolina and possibly in tamati as well. as the world fights the corona pandemic we're learning more about this every day

it's a new thank you and join our global community. to fight i'm sorry your question can i just ask you think this is directly what's coming on on you tube as you're saying i'm concerned about the frontline well that's a great question that keeping you up to date and we've seen countries beaten back and beaten back successfully the street on al-jazeera. but again you want there are a reminder our top stories this hour and u.s. secretary of state might have says china is abandoning commitment to preserve hong kong's old autonomy is formally inform the u.s. congress that china is attempting to model hong kong after its own system and that

the territory no longer warrants special economic treatment. place in hong kong abuse pepper sprays demonstrations escalate that at least 300 people were arrested protesters are angry at a proposed law that could see people jailed for mocking china's national anthem. a place in the u.s. city of minneapolis have fought with protestors over the death of an unarmed black man has been widespread outright she often video shows an officer using his knee to pin george floyd to the ground. alright u.k. prime minister johnson has told m.p.'s that it's time to move on from the scandal surrounding his top adviser on the commons traveled with his family from london to northeast england in march while he and his wife were showing covert 90 symptoms the prime minister who's at a select committee hearing in parliament says he doesn't think an inquiry into the matter is necessary and that the government needs to focus on dealing with the

coronavirus. focus on getting the message right which is. wrong with committee then i think what we need to do really is to move on and to. get on to how we'll get you to sort out a corrective market which is really really good will be priority of the people of this country. and as we talk with my new boss he joins us now from london neve the prime minister there very keen to iterate that he wants to move on and draw a line under this but one wonders if that's what will happen. yeah that's right nick this is incredibly uncomfortable for the prime minister and the government let's not forget that this is day 5 in which the government the senior cabinet ministers or the prime minister himself has had to talk about this in detail defending a man that normally is behind the scenes of of government and of course he doesn't

cummings have to speak for himself on monday in an unusual situation way who is defending allegations against him in the garden of number 10 downing street now is the time for the prime minister to face a grilling a form a senior at m.p.'s from different political parties including his own an awful lot of political capital has been expended in defending dominic cummings and question off the question has been focusing primarily on whether or not the prime minister was satisfied that the story he received from a senior adviser was true whether it was legal and whether or not i think full inquiry should be started to find out whether there's more to all of this i think a lot of people are wondering is why so much energy and effort has been put into defending dominate cummings what does this say about how number 10 downing street works and who pulls the strings of power are on

a thanks very much they got the picture from paul in new parka in london. donald trump has threatened to shut down social media companies that's a day off to twitter a label 2 of his tweets is misleading for the 1st time the u.s. president says twitter is stifling free speech often referred users to a fact check page exam prime has this report was arguably twice as most famous used the us president donald trump has even said to us one him the white house thank you very much everybody now he's at the center of a twist a storm after the social media company flagged 2 of his tweets as misleading for the 1st time trumpeted tweeted to his 80000000 follow as that mail in ballots would lead to fraud twista said his claims were false and had been debunked by fact check as there are 2 areas where twitter has said specifically they would be more

aggressive one of those is misinformation around the virus so we've seen them take action against the brazilian president over that and then also on election misinformation so this is one of the 2 areas where they said they'd be more aggressive that they have never taken action in 3 and a half years of presidential and there's been plenty that have been misleading trump has hit back accusing twitter in a tweet of stifling free speech and interfering in the november election that while twice has now taken its 1st stamp against the president allen's eliot it refused to act another series of trump's tweets where he suggested former republican congressman and u.s. t.v. anchor joe scarborough may have been involved in the death of an end 1019 years ago it's a very suspicious thing and i hope somebody gets to the bottom of it trump's tweeted for years about the unfounded allegations even though laurie closers he's death was

blamed on a hot issue last week a widow wrote an open letter to twitter pleading with it to delete the posts saying i'm. asking you to intervene in this instance because the president of the united states has taken something that does not belong to him the memory of my did wife and perverted it for perceived political gain what they call a suit this is the entire family have had to endure for 19 years. it's unspeakably cruel for what whether it's the president or whether it's people following the president it is speak of bully crew or social media companies like twitter facebook and you tube have come under increasing pressure to act faster and more effectively against misinformation and hate speech on their platforms twitter says the president's posts about the t.v. host don't violate its terms of service though it's working to address issues like this going forward thank you very much everybody thank you alexia brian al-jazeera

. a french court has rejected the request it to release rwandan genocide suspect under court supervision felicien cougar is accused of helping to finance the mass killings in 1904 and was arrested in paris after 26 years on the run a touch of butler as more. no wonder the businessmen. in the capital kigali in 19931 year before the genocide he's accused of helping to finance could google is alleged to have funded the ethnic militias the killed at least 800000 ethnic tutsis and moderate hutus in a 100 days could be go was it not for more than a quarter of a century is addressed in paris earlier this month has been welcomed by genocide survivors like a.t.n. sans the mana. to measure rest but of course one must respect the presumption of innocence he was one of the men figures of the old wonder and he was wanted on

several charges so it's a huge relief that he's been caught who was indicted by un courts and genocide charges in 1997 so decades he evaded investigators in africa and europe before he was finally caught in france french investigators surveyed children online and discovered the one of them rented an apartment in this building in the paris suburb of ano source and when police raided the home they found now 84 years old it is believed that he was living here for at least 4 years with a false identity. colonel erik m. a whole led the investigation. during the lockdown our investigators were working from home so they had more time to focus on this case to track phones and locations and we began to survey one location in we believe he was in the apartment but once we open the door we carried out a d.n.a. test to confirm it was him the parish school to decide whether to hand could be

good to you in custody he could face 6 addition to tanzania to face trial in an international court also likely he would be transferred to the hanger and then transferred to i was shot to face trial but it is still possible that the valid id of the restaurant. would be a challenge and that the court would accept that argument it's unclear how one of the world's most wanted men was able to evade justice the so now it could be the das face trial it may provide some answers it might also shed light on the extent to which the who wanted genocide was planned and also survivors a sense that's after so many years justice is finally being served and sascha about al-jazeera paris. like his ations a very gritty during brandy's presidential election has deepened with the catholic church now saying it observed many irregularities every day she may from the ruling

party was declared the winner last week nearly 70 percent of the vote says it's observers witness ballot box tampering harassment of voters and proxies registered in the place that. they didn't officials say their soldiers are in a standoff with chinese forces in the disputed luddite creation troops standing face to face in at least 4 places and both sides have reportedly increased deployment china says indian troops trust 1st on chinese territory but india says it's all just stayed on their side and us president donald trump has offered to mediate in what he says is a regime border issue. india is dealing with its worst invasion of desert locusts in more than a quarter of a century the insects have destroyed huge areas of farmland in western and central states threatening food supplies solvents 1st landed in east africa at the start of the year and spread to south asia scientists say unseasonal rains and cyclons calls a local population to. 2 american astronauts are now making their

final preparations for a historic mission to the crew for the 1st manned space flight to blast off from u.s. soil in nearly a decade and it's the it's the 1st it's a collaboration between nasa and a private company space x. weather permitting the full can one rocket will launch from kennedy space center in florida in the coming hours mike hanna has more. all is ready the pole can line rocket poised on the launch pad for historic mission that could pave the way for the future of space travel and restart a manned space program that was mothballed in sweeping budget cuts by the obama administration. the astronauts doug hurley and bob behnken are space veterans 210 and lift off doug hurley was the pilot of the space shuttle atlantis back in 2011 the last manned flight from u.s. soil you would have never thought you know after we landed atlantis back in 2011

then you know 9 years later we would be where we are in some ways and it's it's. better than i would have imagined in so many the mission is the fruit of a unique partnership between the private space x. company founded by millionaire elon musk and the one thing we have under development that is of the highest priority. is launching american astronauts on american rockets from american soil there's always issues this space is hard obviously the partnership has not been without its problems in 2015 a full can rocket carrying supplies exploded 139 seconds into its flight and in april last year the dragon capsule was destroyed in a ground explosion. grim reminders of the dangers a space travel in which 14 u.s. astronauts lost their lives over a period of 30 years there are just so many technical factors and things that we

need to focus on to make sure that we pull this off our place and history or you know even try and put our names in the same sentence as the folks who have come before us. it seems premature until and till we've pulled it off the space suits are different the cars that will take the astronauts to the launch pad tesla's branded with the nasa label. but if all goes according to plan the one thing that has not changed is the view that the western north will have from nearly 400 kilometers above the earth like al-jazeera washington saudi arabia's proposed takeover of the premier league football club newcastle united could be in doubt the guardian newspaper is reporting the world trade organization has ruled that the kingdom is behind the pirate broadcast to be cute and is therefore in breach of international law. legally offers access to

copyrighted sporting events including premier league games who ruling now means the saudis offer may not pass the premier league director's test and that's because that the test can be failed if a crime is committed overseas that would also qualify as one in the u.k. . so this is out there these are the top stories and usa your state my pump says that china is abandoning commitments to preserve hong kong's autonomy he says that china has attempted to model hong kong after its own system and that the territory no longer warrants special economic treatment white house correspondent can we help get as much. these are very strong words that kind of double down on the statements that we got from the secretary of state with respect to what he sees

going on in hong kong his wording in the last week or so is that he essentially condemn the proposed national security law for hong kong calling it the death knell of the hong kong autonomy and he also said last week that he believes that this proposed law violates the side o. british joint agreement and he is urging beijing to reconsider but meanwhile police in hong kong have used pepper spray his demonstrations escalate at least 300 people have been arrested protest as i mean griot a proposed law that could see people jailed for mocking china's national anthem police in the us city of minneapolis so forth with protestors over the death of an unarmed black man there's been widespread outrage after a video shows an officer using his knee to pin george floyd to the ground there are calls for the officers to face criminal charges. at least one turkish soldier has done it after a roadside bomb exploded in syria's italy province when that convoy passed by it

happened on the m 4 highway it's a main supply route that opposition forces the syrian government's been funky and. european commission has unveiled ambitious proposal for a coronavirus economic recovery plan it wants to borrow $825000000000.00 for its stimulus fund but it's likely to face opposition by some member states. u.k. prime minister boris johnson has told m.p.'s it is time to move on from this kind of surrounding his top adviser dominic cummings traveled with his family from london to northeast england in march while he and his wife were showing kind of a 900 sometimes prime minister says he doesn't think an inquiry into the matter is necessary and that the government needs to focus on dealing with corona virus. all right yes that with the headlines in our announcer got more news coming up right after witness africa.