investigates the unfolding humanitarian crisis. revealing eco friendly solutions to comeback threats to our planet on al-jazeera. protests spread to dozens of u.s. cities over the death of a black man was pinned to the ground by police. hello i'm come on santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera an officer has been charged with george floyd's murder adding to the anger about the way racial minorities are treated by police president don't trump those largely

ignoring the domestic turmoil and instead announces he's terminating america's relationship with the w.h.o. . we have had people that have eaten. a look at the charities and volunteers filling the gaps as britain's welfare system is overwhelmed by coronavirus. from coast to coast protests and violence have spread to more u.s. cities over the death of george floyd police officer derek chauvin has now been charged with his murder but it's done little to damp down the anger especially in minneapolis where floyd died while being arrested on monday demonstrators defied a curfew and a large deployment of the national guard the bank was set on fire and a department store as well just past 3 am in minneapolis here's john hendren john bring us up to date. well i have to say come on this was

a big test tonight of the security in this city after through 9 sort of rioting and burning of buildings and it's clear it was not an unqualified success by any measure there are a number of buildings burning you can see one of them right over here that is just being put out by firefighters. and that is just one of several that we have seen tonight we've seen looting at a kmart store people have been setting off. fireworks they have been challenging police those police have backed them off with tear gas but it was clear there weren't enough police really to clear out all of the demonstrators and it was also a jest because this was the 1st night that there was a curfew that happened several hours ago and hundreds of demonstrators went all over the city some of them peacefully some of them not so peacefully and one key

point is that these national guard troops who've been guarding blocking off streets and they've been protecting these firefighters as they've been going to the fire but there simply weren't enough of them even to allow them to go and put out the fires while the protesters were around i think they were they decided that there simply wasn't enough security so this afternoon this evening rather the governor jim wallace apologized saying that they were simply overwhelmed they did not have enough troops and now he's calling in another 1000 of these national guard troops to come in respond to the cities as that is the largest number of troops they have ever called out in this state of minnesota but it was hoped that this wouldn't happen because the charges had been filed against one of those 4 officers and nevertheless people are still unsatisfied they want charges against all 4 of the officers who were involved in the death of. floyd and there is still anger in the

streets here in minnesota so it shows then john that even though there has been that arrest and charges brought against derrick shove and that really the protests have moved beyond just this one incident. that's right i think what happened is 1st of all these incidents keep happening in the united states and ferguson missouri and new york and chicago and they're growing frustration that gave birth to the group black lives matter and to this movement across the united states and is borne of an increasing frustration but also you had an announcement that there was going to be a big press conference on thursday it was going to have federal prosecutors local prosecutors the f.b.i. and a lot of people here who were demonstrating in the streets were expecting there to be criminal charges filed against the police and that didn't happen so it was another rough night on thursday and then you had the announcement

a day later that they would prefer in criminal charges that should have all was going was held in custody and people were hoping that that would probably violence but it simply wasn't enough the streets have been very turbulent this evening we put together a story over what's been happening over the past 24 hours take a look. it is what protesters across the u.s. have been demanding the officer who held his knee and george floyd's neck has been arrested in minneapolis for the saucer chop and has been charged by the head of the county attorney's office with murder and with manslaughter as minneapolis st still smoldering following a 3rd night of riots the state governor is hoping the news will calm the violence in the streets minneapolis st paul on fire a fire still smoldering there streets the ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of

a pain. of anguish and heard much like we failed to hear. george floyd. as he pleaded for his life as the world watched it is my expectation that justice for the officers involved in this will be swift that it will come in a timely manner that it will be fair that is what we've asked for. governor tim wants also called the arrest of a black c.n.n. journalist and his crew early friday by state police officers unacceptable i take full responsibility there is absolutely no reason something like this should happen calls were made immediately this is a very public apology to that team it should not happen i failed you last night and that in minneapolis riot police stand ready to confront a community that feels it's been betrayed national guard soldiers have also arrived in the city requested by a mayor who is under pressure to bring the violence under control. this was

a police station in flames on thursday night and anger directed at those who swear to serve and protect escalated not far away more burning shops looting and violence . protests have spread across the u.s. in denver demonstrators echoed the demand for justice already heard in new york and los angeles anger over the treatment of african-americans by the police is not new but right now it is very wrong. in louisville in kentucky the death of george floyd has reopened old wounds with protesters demanding justice for an african-american woman who was shot dead by police 2 months ago and. it is this video of the last moment of george floyd's life a police officer kneeling on his neck that is driving the outrage president trump is weighed in calling the protesters thugs and suggesting national guard troops shoot looters the republican president also to game against the city's democratic

mayor mayor jacob fry fired back donald trump knows nothing about the strength of minneapolis we are strong as hell is this a difficult time period yes but you better be damn sure that we're going to get through this as the protests in george floyd's name continue to grow the leaders of major cities across the u.s. are hoping that promises of swift justice will be enough to calm tensions. so it's now in the predawn hours of saturday here in minneapolis and with each day comes a new test of whether this city can get control of this situation that's really spiraled out of control the governor solution is to take the $500.00 national guard troops he's had look like that and add another 1000 of them but so far. that test has not been passed and you can see by this smoke behind me this city is still in chaos thank you to john hendren of the team in minneapolis.

and that is just one spot around the u.s. which we're looking at washington d.c. as well where the white house actually went into lockdown as crowds for with police outside some protesters knocked over the barricades which have been set up by the secret service this is atlanta georgia where the headquarters of the news channel c.n.n. came under attack police cars were also targeted prompting a furious response from the city's mayor you are just crazy in our city you are just great thing the life of george lloyd in every other person who has been killed in this country this is not a protest this is not in the spirit of martin luther king jr this is chaos a protest has a purpose when dr king was assassinated we didn't do this to our city and his brooklyn new york where protesters chanting no justice no peace and

a standoff with offices outside the stadium demonstrations were also held around the supreme court ups. and this goes out to the west coast as well several officers injured in confrontations there crowds in los angeles were chanting i can't breathe which is some of floyd's final words as he was kept pinned to the ground by his neck well interestingly some u.s. police officers have spoken ops condemning the actions of those involved in georgia floyd's death was on the reports that sort of condemnation is pretty rare. the scenes of george fully handcuffed being choked to death by a police officer has led to outrage within the insular tight ranks of the law enforcement community there was unusually quick condemnation on social media a new york police detective said the officer involved brought dishonor to the profession we take over to serve and protect and like to see that that was the fear

and on both aspects other police officers had equally pointed words it's time that we take these bad also as a speech out of gas and start holding them accountable and hold them to the same laws that we expect. and i hope justice prevails and i hope those people are found to be guilty of murder because that's what i was. second i want to say. and we've got to change this we've got to break these barriers in these walls and we've got to do what we can as police officers the bigger picture is how the killing of florida is going to complicate police work throughout america already many black communities are distrustful of law enforcement this is only going to make it worse when you see. what should be a routine apprehension become a de facto execution it is it is extremely and so we watch. and former new york police detective keith taylor says

there are systematic issues of race that need to be addressed makes it more difficult for officers interests simply trying to do their job every day. the fact that these. negative incidents that occur do get publicized it really brings to the forefront how important it is to address the inequities that occur in our criminal justice system an incident that has left many police officers just as outraged as the people they are sworn to serve and protect many wanting answers and justice gabriels on doe al jazeera new york in the news ahead kicked out with nowhere to go or why people living in a slum in colombia's capital fear being inflicted during the pandemic and fears of a food shortages plagues of locusts destroyed crops and outs of india and pakistan

. hello there cloudy and cool across central and eastern areas of europe plenty of rain as well me want to see all these guys out across the southwest and also into the northwest my sunny skies into northern spain people out and about enjoying the very nice will sunshine did they all throughout much of england this is actually along the banks of the river thames so it'll stay pretty nice suffered across the entire region the low countries are all the wall cloud across as a germany and really the central and eastern areas but it's really going to be about the rain today particularly through batteries very very heavy and pushing down into areas opponent it'll work its way south of st poland on sunday and work its way down into areas of the czech republic and down across into austria generally quite unsettled the southeast much the balkan some areas of scattered

rain showers. in the 4 calls reportable and areas of spain but really elsewhere it is mostly fine and dry and tom it isn't too bad as well pretty warm particularly through scandinavia some disney want across northern africa not quite as they have been but is in favor of a nice set in tunis into is it touches in the mid twenty's so again people out about enjoying the sunshine but as we go through saturday quite a bit up particularly through algeria we could see some showers late in the day and then sunday is a little bit a repeat but the high of 25 in rip that. isolating time listening post cuts through the noise at another side of the story not so much information around the outbreak but. separating propaganda from fact this really has. exposed to try and finish the rhetoric

but they cannot manipulate the fires. going to the media on iraq you see around. you're with al-jazeera these are the top stories protests some of them violent have been going in several u.s. cities demanding justice for george floyd black man killed in police custody the minnesota national guard has been deployed to minneapolis where ford died on monday . in washington the white house went into lockdown this crowd filled with police outside some protesters knocked over barricades set up by the secret service. former minneapolis office

a dirt show that has been arrested and charged with murder video captured him pressing his name on to it for its next. donald trump has announced the u.s. is cutting ties with the world health organization accusing it of being influenced by beijing the president also confirmed the united states would end its special treatment of hong kong after china approved a new security law for the territory this week the details in this report from alan fischer. unusually for a news conference at the white house president only trump opted to use a teleprompter and stuck to the script but in the week where the number of covert 1000 deaths in the u.s. went through the 100000 mark the president used the occasion to cut ties with the world health organization and returned to calling it the ruhani virus china has total control over the world health organization we have detailed the reforms that it must make and engage with them directly but they have refused to act the

president has been angry about china's trade practices since before he took office the protests this week in hong kong o.b. zhang's decision to extend security powers there has added to that anger hong kong has had a special relationship with the u.s. but the president wants to punish china and says hong kong special status is no more my announcement today will affect the full range of agreements we have with hong kong from our extradition treaty to our export controls on dual use technologies and more with few exceptions we will be revising the state department's travel advisory for hong kong to reflect the increased danger of surveillance and punishment by the chinese state security apparatus president also announced he was imposing sanctions on chinese and hong kong officials i think this is the the amount of actions that he and house as well as the severity of actions that he did announce depending on the implementation of these actions this is

probably the nuclear option that this initiation of do you think china will react and respond i think china has to respond in this case there are so many actions that the trump initiation announced today that if they don't respond and domestically the leadership risks looking weak to their domestic audience president trump gave a long. grievances about china's economic actions there's nothing new there he's done it before what was interesting in his 10 minutes in front of the cameras he made no mention of chinese president xi a man he regards as strong a man he's praised in the past even for his handling of the coronavirus bric alan fischer al-jazeera at the chinese embassy in washington more of which if you are now joining us from hong kong not forgetting that us china relations are already at an all time low what would beijing's reaction likely be.

welcome all even prior to this had said that they will take any counter measures against any nation that is going to interfere in its affairs particularly with china beijing trying to impose this national security law in hong kong the u.s. and china earlier in the day at the united nations had already express exchanged barbs at the u.s. calling china repressive and china hitting back say telling the u.s. to stay out of its affairs now the u.s. along with removing hong kong special status they also said that they're going to increase the scrutiny of chinese firms operating in the united states they're also going to raise this takes in international property intellectual property. intellectual rights and also they are also going to play sanctions on any officials or any government officials from beijing or hong kong seen as eroding hong kong 6

to me and analysts say this is where china can hit back and given their past actions this is where they can retaliate and most likely will impose to protest measures here come off t.v. it's all it's all strangely counter-intuitive isn't it because the u.s. is always supposed said it supports hong kong and its special status but in doing this it takes away the status and this could have a huge impact on hong kong as a as a place to live as a place to do business. to put it in context about how football investments that go into china are come out of china go through hong kong that means billions and billions of dollars passed through hong kong really helping hong kong secada me get going get the wheels turning on its economy also many businesses also rely on this kind of capital so yes this is going to have a huge impact on hong kong's economy in fact hong kong's finance minister has said

they are already looking at all kinds of measures of putting strategy in place to for all kinds of scenarios depending on what the u.s. decides to do but to help you understand how this came about basically it was during the protests in which the pro-democracy front particularly. group law b. that the u.s. congress to keep an eye on hong kong autonomy and safeguard hong kong's autonomy giving it the right to take measures against anyone who does try to erode this autonomy and now the u.s. is using those powers to say that they are going to take away hong kong special trade status because they no longer see china our hong kong as autonomous for china so while many of the pro-democracy front and perhaps human rights activists will be celebrating as this is somewhat of a victory many other people in hong kong the business community and in fact many

small businesses will be concerned about this in fact the american chamber of commerce commerce called this if sad day for hong kong because this could really affect on consequent to me and people still livelihoods that steve you got pollard in hong kong. hundreds of people living in a colombian slum facing eviction despite having nowhere to go during the coronavirus lockdown authorities in the capital bogota have to clear their hillside homes as illegal asunder rumpy as he is there. more than 100 families that live in this hillside slum on the southern outskirts of bogota are expected to be evicted in coming days despite having nowhere else to go in this fight to the country still being in the middle of the coronavirus the last down many of them have a rival here to build this informal housing fleeing the country's internal conflict

others are venezuelan migrants they all say they've been suffering greatly during the lockdown being and able to work with other hundreds of families have already been evicted their houses demolished in the past weeks and the people here say that the police used excessive force to try and push them out of their houses. if you destroy the houses all we can do is build a shelter with the neighbors well we supposed to go if you don't even have enough to buy food now the minister of housing has at least in theory banned all addictions until the end of june in response to the pandemic that the city out sorry these are saying that these informal houses are illegal and that there hill itself is at risk of a landslide so these people need to go and now but to avoid the kind of clashes that we've seen a couple of weeks ago local authorities are here today with the police and they're offering people roughly $70.00 a month for the next 3 months as

a housing bonus to find something to rant about the community say that the definitely not enough and that the only option would be to end up in overcrowded housing with other families which would put them at risk of catching the virus now this shows just how difficult it has been to colombia for colombia to respond to the kind of means that the poorest of the poor have during the lockdown and the pandemic the national government has offered economic help for hundreds of thousands of people some of them have indeed received it but many others like those who live here say they haven't. one of ours numbers in the u.k. you are heading lower but charities say they are seeing a sharp rise in people needing the services so many people were already struggling to get by before the panic began. is the king of a story from stoke on trent thank you grant me of the size 3 no more another if you

want to know what the sharp end of the coronavirus crisis looks like now then take a look in here it isn't a health care issue stoke on trent hasn't seen as many cases as other parts of the u.k. it's what weeks of isolation has done up to so many people mark is a barrister by profession but with the law courts closed he's given his time over to taking supplies to people who have no means of getting their hands on anything he's been asked to deliver to emma and her children she suffers from anxiety and can't leave the house the facts contained enough to keep them going for a fortnight and how they need it it would be very difficult yeah. maybe case what the software has been to probably go without food to make sure the kids have got. to be after not the. next stop is heartrending claire has 2 boys aged 2 and 4 they both have chronic lung conditions if they left the house and her husband could

kill their sons. i mean it is not exaggeration to say you could be instances for the whole of the year and. a fate about that putin patients have got to remain is whole vaccine it could go into next year if they get paid for it it would kill them and. it would kill them these are just 2 of the $130.00 drops the volunteers would do the day we met them we have had people that have not eaten in days because they cannot get the food they simply can't get the food they don't have the growth but it's all valuable for the government to say well we have a welfare system like universal credit that depends upon the bureaucracy to be able to kick him straight away and hope that it's not there. the good news part of all this is the level of donations is astounding castles of essentials for mothers and babies arriving all day some from the public others from supermarkets there's a push on for the u.k. to be more positive with the summer here and virus cases falling but for many

people there's far less cause for optimism i think is really jarring about all they saw the newspaper headlines this say that britain is about to go back to work and things are going back to normal well that may be true for many people but clearly there is now a whole section of the community in this country which could barely cope before coronavirus and now is genuinely in suffering so i hear it or actually hayley who set this place up well before the virus changed everything is now running at least 700 delivers a week and every week it increases she's worried about what happens when the government announces things have gone back to normal the local businesses the small businesses those at them fail at all of such jobs for them it isn't going to be back to normal so for us to demand is going to stay like this for a lot longer well to try and fix $33.00 or 4 of them take many months ago policy advisers in london identified a swathe of society they called jams short for people just about managing since the virus hits those people plainly cannot manage at all what the future would hold for

them without the intervention the violence is hard it is thinking about largely al-jazeera in stoke on trent. we didn't need this plagues of locusts devastating large parts of india and pakistan billions of dollars worth of crops have been damaged and it's prompting fears of food shortages elizabeth chrono reports. crawling across thousands of kilometers and flying through the air billions of locusts have swarmed large swathes of agricultural land in pakistan and india devouring any vegetation in their path i have lost fruits one thousands of dollars spent all my life growing these trees but all these swarms have destroyed and. the u.n. has pakistan bellew's more than $4000000000.00 worth of winter and summer crops. pakistan's government is using planes to spray pesticide we have now. we are

looking for 6 more and i'm sure we'll be able to. be locust which would be coming from iran as well as from moscow and in turn is coming from africa while locust plague is not news scientists say climate change is making them worse they say this infestation is driven by unusually warm weather and heavy rains in the arabian peninsula last year creating the ideal breeding grounds for locusts move in swarms of up to 50000000 each swarm can travel 200 kilometers a day each as much food as $35000.00 people and lay $1000.00 eggs per square metre . in india the blanketed western and central states during a heatwave higher temperatures help the insects spread more rapidly as well as spraying pesticide local councils in the state of madhya pradesh a playing loud music from speakers mounted on vehicles in an effort to drive the locusts away. if they stay here for more than 8 days they'll start laying eggs and

if they start laying eggs it would be very dangerous for us we arrange for bands to play in the villages to me. noise to try and scare them like it's a way. experts warned that india's food supplies are also had been skipped the invasion isn't controlled before the end of june that's when the monsoon is due to arrive in northern india and locusts mature and breed elizabeth broad and new delhi . so these are the top stories on al-jazeera protests some of them violent have been going on in. the several u.s. cities demanding justice for george floyd a black man killed in police custody the minnesota national guard has been deployed to minneapolis where floyd died on monday and addition to that the former minneapolis officer derek chauvin has been arrested and charged with murder video

captured him pressing his knee on george floyd's neck john hendren our correspondent in minneapolis we saw a confrontation between a number of demonstrators and state police with guns that shot rubber bullets through ended with tear gas so security has been a problem here and you would think that after several days of this it would not be a problem but they've had trouble figuring this out apparently the national guard are moving behind us. so security has been a major issue tonight and it's especially important that this happened on the 1st night of the curfew. meanwhile in washington the white house went into lockdown briefly as crowds fought with police outside some protesters knocked over barricades set up by the secret service in atlanta the headquarters of news channel c.n.n. came under attack police cars were also targeted wanting a furious response from the city's mayor. donald trump announced the u.s.

will cut ties with the world health organization accusing it of being influenced by beijing the us president also confirmed washington would end its special treatment of hong kong after china approved a new security law russia's reported 191 new coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours down from its biggest one day increase the day before the toll now standing at 54555 russia the 3rd highest number of infections in the world and protest as a full security forces in lebanon capitalism gathered around the interior ministry earlier demonstrators clashed with supporters of the parliament speaker outside his home police separated those 2 groups there the anti-government protests began last year over widespread corruption and mismanagement of the lebanese economy up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera the listening posts but his next. join me steve clemons on the bottom line for your weekly take on u.s. politics and society i'm changing the institutions frequently don't the system

itself to benefit those who understand people who actually believe things that are not true that is a crisis for democracy is a crisis of concentration the bottom line on al-jazeera. machine learning or to record quote surveillance or spot fires that are one of attention. for the us government. is just about making it easier for all parties to get hold of your take on. the way of privatizing the n.h.s. . hello i'm richard burton you're watching the listening post working from home here are the coronavirus stories the media elements that we're looking at this week the british government gets some outside help from technology companies to take on covert 19 but where will.