base your legs on the scissors and the press is not after trying this after that we're not the enemy of the people we are the people usa the current battleground whose truth is it anyway on. the us secretary of state says hong kong is no longer all thomas from china and doesn't merit special economic treatment. but on a clock this is out 0 live from doha also coming up. outrage and protests in the united states 4 police officers have been sacked after the death of an unarmed black man. this is about all of 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 4. and he was one of the world's most wanted man a court decides where a top suspect the rwandan genocide should be trying. so the new u.s. actually state my pump says hong kong no longer maintains a high degree of autonomy from china he says that china is attempting to model hong kong after its own system the territory no longer want special treatment that could impact hong kong's position as a financial hub china has proposed a new security law for the churchy which many fear will reduce freedoms let's speak to our white house correspondent kimberly how could he joins us now from washington kimberly the extra states away again on these ongoing troubles between hong kong

john. yeah reporting to congress as required under the u.s. hong kong policy act issuing a statement a report to congress and also this tweet where he says today reported to congress that hong kong is no longer a ton of us from china given the facts on the ground the united states stands with the people of hong kong that was a very short snippet from the longer statement that the u.s. secretary of state put out where he says that sense of the united states is standing with the people of hong kong as they struggle for the autonomy they were promised is now clear china's model and hong kong after itself no reasonable person could assert that hong kong can maintain a high degree of autonomy from china given the facts now these statements in the tweet tell those the report to congress this is all follows very strong words in fact a condemnation coming from the united states from the trumpet ministration late last

week when the u.s. secretary of state condemned the proposed national security law for hong kong the secretary of state at the time calling this a death knell for hong kong's autonomy essentially saying that it violates the side of british joint declaration and it is urging or the united states is still urging beijing to reconsider but what this also marks is an escalation once again in the war of words between china and the united states the world's 2 largest economies you have this from the get go as soon as donald trump took office he started trying to renegotiate trade deals with china something that he partially achieved but that came with tit for tat tariffs then of course you have the fact that the united states has blamed china for not stopping the chrono virus pandemic so this is now the latest in that escalating and very tense dialogue or at least statements being

exchanged between the 2 sides the china will not be happy that. they said it at the . i well i've only been following the united states angle if there is a response from china that is certainly something that we will be following up here on al-jazeera origami would have meant thanks very much data can be hunk of the reporting from the white house. well meanwhile on to government protests have fled once again in hong kong with more than 300 demonstrators being arrested during a standoff with police that's enough from a jim 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 star affairs to a standstill. police say this was an illegal assembly this crowd shouted pro-democracy slogans and insults at the emotional up 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 home kong people reassured and they now know the risk for daring to demonstrate their opposition adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. well in the united states now the 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 a video 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 100 has this report which i should say contains images that some viewers may find to stress. 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. you know. i. know. you remember. george floyd accused of chick forgery is pressed down his face bloody my stomach hurt but they do. everything. 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 is citing 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 blah blah 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 . at least one turkish soldiers died after a roadside bomb exploded in syria's italie province when their convoy passed by it

happened on the m 4 highway that's the main supply route that opposition forces and the syrian government to be in fighting so he deployed soldiers to the province to enforce a cease fire agreement with russia the syrian government's main ally. the use ambitious proposal for a coronavirus recovery plan would mark a major economic policy shift for the block but it's likely to face resistance from some countries the e.u.'s executive arm is seeking member states approval to go directly to the financial markets and borrow $825000000000.00 for its recovery fund the bulk of that money would then be distributed as grants to the worst hit countries and a smaller part would be made available as loans but also denmark the netherlands and sweden they oppose borrowing large amounts of money and prefer offering loans rather than grants to the countries in need of assistance from vicky pryce souza chief economic advisor at the center for economics and business research and she says the proposal will eventually receive the approval of member states. there are

still some countries typically the netherlands had to buy austria for example and denmark. and sweden which don't actually think that this is a very good idea but basically expectation is that they 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 maybe you know the shape of 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 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 still ahead here on al-jazeera donald trump threatens to shut down social

media companies the day after twitter fly 2 of his tweets is misleading us 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 take off from the united states nearly a decade. hello hot and hazy sometimes humid is a word to describe the weather in the arabian peninsula at this time of the year and they are correct for most places the temperature young but on the high side doha's it's $4044.00 but for baghdad where well above were not expected to be $46.00 or $47.00 in the blazing sun shine is cooler near the coast of course lebanon and israel into the twenty's but that's normal and it's not

a very pleasant cooling breeze down in salalah we may well see the folly of coming as rain forecast for friday saturday and sundry rain by sunday once it's in this is indication the monsoon change it'll be like that for a couple of months at least elsewhere in north africa as a fast not a cloud in sudden now geria you might get a shower to that as well the heaviest rains still further south near the tropics for me in southern nigeria sierra leone for example next couple days because it's pretty big downpours there are few showers in the atlas mountains of morocco algeria and tunisia and the onshore breeze here means tensions are i would think arguably very present in the middle twenty's away across to tripoli cairo is a 3035 foot with quite a dusty breeze. frank

assessments tourism but the income stream is dead in the water what's been the result seen perching quite significantly informed opinions there has been a very aggressive political rhetoric that has become very normal in israeli society in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines it's time for diplomacy in a country that is not only disintegrating but retaining the leading all continues inside story on al-jazeera. or. or. can i get you what she had 0 remind of our top stories this hour and u.s. extra state might pump out as china is abandoning commitments to preserve hong

kong's autonomy he says that china is attempting to model hong kong authorization system and that the territory no longer warrants special economic treatment. at police in hong kong have used pepper spray as demonstrations escalate in a 300 people were arrested by protesters angry a proposed law and a proposed order could see people jailed for mocking china's national anthem. police in the us city of minneapolis so forth with protesters over the death of an unarmed black has been widespread outbreak to a video that showed an officer using his knee to pin a george floyd to the ground. here these are pictures from the kennedy space center in florida you're looking at 2 american astronauts that's robert behnken and douglas hurley planning to depart scene roundabout just over 3 hours 3 and a quarter out get in the car to head to the actual launch site into the rocket there the crew for the 1st manned space flight to blast off from u.s.

soil in nearly 10 years in a decade and it's the 1st that a collaboration between nasa and a private company which is base x. of course and its and weather permitting the falcon 9 rocket will launch from kennedy space center in florida in the coming hours mike hanna has more details. 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 2101 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 and 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 until 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 extra north will have from nearly 400 kilometers above the earth like hannah al-jazeera washington is to say they'll be taking off in boston i should say in about just over 3 hours more calls for. now u.k. prime minister brian johnson is told m.p.'s it is time to move on from the scandal surrounding his top adviser dominic cummings traveled with his family from london to northeast england in march while he and his wife were showing over 1000 symptoms

prime minister says he doesn't think an inquiry into the matter is necessary and says the government needs to focus on dealing with crime of our. focus on getting the message right she's probably come around with committee then i think what we need to do really is to move on and to. get on to how we're getting into sort out a credit market which is really a priority given where we priority of the people of this country and let's hear now from new parker who has more on the story from london. this is incredibly uncomfortable for the prime minister and the government let's not forget that this is day 5 in which the government he the senior cabinet ministers or the prime minister himself has had to talk about they seem detail defending a man that normally is behind the scenes of of government and of course he cummings had to speak for himself on monday in an unusual situation where he was

defending the allegations against him in the garden of number 10 downing street now is the time for the prime minister to face a grilling from senior 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 after question has been focusing primarily on whether or not the prime minister was satisfied that the story he received from his 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 what a lot of people are wondering is why so much energy and effort has been put into defending dominic cummings what does this say about how number 10 downing street works and who pulls the strings of power. a 10 day mourning period has begun in spain to remember the more than 27000 people who have died during the pandemic king

felipe and members of the government of held a minute's silence in madrid flags also reload across the country spain is one of the hardest hit countries in europe more than 236000 cases from madrid motto don't tell us more about how the country intends to. today spain has one minute of silence that spanish prime minister a bit of a sunset from the spanish parliament and joined by all the official on private public and private buildings this is part of the 10 day of official mourning that was declared yesterday by capping at spanish cabinet. political parties have been longing claiming spanish prime minister to to just to begin an official in the morning in order to pay ci view to the over 27000 people that have died from. it was part of the big debate if you today that has spawned arised all of the

speeches syrian parliament and outside parliament between political parties and so these 10 days of official mourning are going to last until june the 6th this is part of the this is the longest official mourning in history of a spanish democracy and it will end with sort of a much ceremony held by king philip philip to the 6. moskos lifting some of its coronavirus 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 since he 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. the russian military says it's a field hospital in the hard hit for public if that gets down local officials call the outbreak or a catastrophe beg the kremlin for help earlier this month medics have also been

speaking out saying there were shortages of equipment and the death toll was higher than officially reported it's now been sent reinforcements and equipment. donald trump has threatened to shut down social media companies the day off to twitter a label to have his tweets as misleading for the 1st time the u.s. president says twitter is stifling free speech after it referred users to a friendship page like superman 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 tweets and there have 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 n n 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 the course souness's 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 in his 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 . to france now where a court has rejected the request to release rwandan genocide suspect under court supervision feliciana kapoor is accused of helping finance the mass killings in 1904 and was arrested in paris after 26 years on the run 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 it sends 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 rhonda and he was wanted on several charges so it's a huge relief that he's been caught who was indicted by un cotton 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 a big and 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

weren't certain until we open the door we carried out a d.n.a. test to confirm it was him the perry school to decide whether to hand could be good to you in custody he could face extradition to tanzania to face trial in an international court also likely he would be transferred to the hague and then transferred to i was shot to face trial but it is still possible that the valid ity of the restaurant would be a challenge and that the court will accept that argument it's unclear how one of the world's most wanted men was able to evade justice for so long 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 officer vive has a sense that after so many years justice is finally being served and sasha about well just era paris well nicholas palmer is a senior lecturer in criminal law at king's college london and she says many

rwandans would like to see could be tried at home but it will be up to the french court to consider where any potential trial might take place. obviously there have been a large number of individuals who have already been tried at the international level and convicted so we have over 60 same to nces individuals have been found guilty and 14 cases where individuals have been acquitted by the un international criminal tribunal which preceded the court that will now potentially try to prove which is the residual mechanism the international criminal tribunal there is there is just been a statement issued by which is the major genocide survivor open eyes ation which has branches in rwanda and within diaspora communities around the world and they are feeling strongly that the case should be tried in rwanda either before rwandan coal or under the auspices of the un cool but in situ so that the

proceedings happened inside of the one well the french courts of being deeply skeptical of trials in rwanda and up to now have refused to extradite 20 individuals to face trial 20 suspected genocide yet to face trial on concerns that the punishment for genocide was not sufficiently articulated in the rwandan lol at the time that the crimes were committed. coverage you had on turnout today or a u.s. secretary of state might propose says china is abandoning commitments to preserve hong kong's autonomy he says china is attempting to model hong kong off to its own system and that the territory no longer warrants special economic treatment a white house correspondent can be helped it has more. approach 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 meanwhile police in hong kong have used pepper spray is demonstrations. at least 300 people have been arrested in protest as angry at a proposed law that could see people jailed for mocking china's national anthem. police in the city of minneapolis have fought with protesters over the death of an black man that has been widespread outrage after video showed an officer using his name to pin george floyd to the ground. at least one tucker soldier has done it off to a roadside bomb exploded in syria's italy province when that convoy passed by it happened

on the main supply route that opposition forces in the syrian government have been fighting for european commission has unveiled an ambitious proposal for a coronavirus economic recovery plan it wants to borrow $825000000000.00 for stimulus funds it's likely to face opposition by some member states. the u.k. prime minister brought johnson has told m.p.'s it is time to move on from the scandal surrounding his top adviser dominic cummings travelled with his family from london to ne in london march while he and his wife were saying if it 1900 times prime minister says he doesn't think an inquiry into the matter is necessary and that the government needs to focus on dealing with the pandemic. all right you have stayed with headlines on opposite of this news are coming up and how often i write off the inside story laughing now.

the u.s. accuses russia of sending fighter jets to libya moscow says it wants a cease fire that its ally. has suffered losses of to took military interventions one of the options to stabilizing libya in an increasingly complex war this is inside story. hello welcome to the program and it's russia is one of the main players in the war in libya.