Skip to main content

tv   NEWS LIVE - 30  Al Jazeera  May 31, 2020 7:00am-7:35am +03

7:00 am
zebras documentaries live close to the looks. like and the others through the green one continues with conservation fear and this was my return to kosovo and the little village of book one decade on i've come back to find out what happened to those hopes and dreams we want on al-jazeera. curfews in force in the national guard on the streets as anger grows over the death of an unarmed black man. carry this is al jazeera live from doha with all going coverage of the backlash over the killing of george floyd president donald trump threatens to bring in the military a power he does not have vandalism and looting is rife and protesters continue to
7:01 am
confront police also had 3 front corner virus continues to grow report on doctors struggling to make it into the amazon for testing and. one year a. new era for space travel is to nasa astronauts blast off on their mission to the international space station. and richelle carey this is al-jazeera bringing you special coverage of the unrest in the united states of the death of an unarmed black man in minneapolis for a 4th day there have been violent protests across the country from new york to los angeles night has fallen across the country and curfews are being enforced in more than a dozen cities. atlanta portland and among those restricting movement to try to curb more of the. in minneapolis people are again defying orders and continuing to make
7:02 am
their voices heard on the streets the state's governor has fully mobilized the national guard for the 1st time in minnesota's history but he says he still doesn't happen after troops while says also called on people to do their part to stop the violence scuffles have broken out between police and protesters in new york were demonstrations are continuing into the night at least 2 police cars have been set on fire and thousands of people demonstrated outside the city's supreme court on the brooklyn bridge and outside a sports arena police cars also set on fire in miami what was initially a peaceful protests turned violent officers responded with tear gas and fireworks a curfew has been in place there for just over an hour we'll be live with robert oulds and los angles and just a moment 1st let's go to john hendren who is live in minneapolis obviously we're we're all of this started so the curfew has been on in force for a few hours now john what are you seeing. this is what
7:03 am
a curfew is supposed to look like you've got quiet streets not a lot of people out although you're seeing a few cars here. but it was a far cry from this just an hour or 2 ago that was when thousands of protesters gathered just about 2 blocks down there and police came in huge force and they were firing tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd they quickly and rather easily took over that area in more arjen numbers we got a whiff of that tear gas as we were running away during our live shot 2 hours ago. but the police have taken that area over there are still protesters out over the town but they are no longer in the same regions so they're finding other places but they're still upset over the fact that only one of those 4 officers who kneeled on the back of george floyd have been arrested and charged that officer was charged
7:04 am
with murder and manslaughter but people here want to charge against the other officers and they're also just simply upset that these events continue to happen. so yeah well out of that has it seems that for the past 24 hours when the governor and the mayor talked they were trying to deal with the immediacy of the protests has there been any indication about where things stand with this investigation and to the other officers john what do we know about the officer darvish yvonne who actually has been arrested. well very little we know that there had been instances where he had been accused of excessive force in the past and we know that. you know pretty much just what we've seen on the video but he was taken into custody on friday he was arrested charged with manslaughter and 1st degree murder and that's about all we know about him at this time but this is of
7:05 am
course motivated these protests all over the country rob we'll tell you about the one in l.a. i know there's one going on in chicago as well but this one is about is confrontational and violent as i have seen many fires have been set all over the city there has been looting if we can just turn the camera over to the walgreens across the street you can see the windows have been knocked out and people are hanging out but there's really nothing left in there because it's been all looted out and meanwhile you've had these clashes the continue between police and demonstrators they've been firing these rubber projectiles and this is going to continue people here in the streets day until those other officers are charged and this is what this was all sparked by what happened to george floyd but there's a history in various cities across the u.s. of this happening time and time again in minnesota in particular there was the killing of philander castiel a black man
7:06 am
a few years ago who was shot and killed by a police officer and that police officer was found not guilty so this has been simmering across the country but also specifically in the state of minnesota john. that's right minnesota does have a history of this kind of racial tension but as you point out it's happened in state after state trayvon martin in florida michael brown in missouri and in in the state of illinois there was the shooting of mcdonald who was holding and i. but walking away from police was shot 16 times in the back and that case is the exception in that case the police officer jason van dyke was serving is now serving a prison term for murder because of that that's a rare instance of a police officer going to prison and having covered that trial i will tell you that it was calm in chicago after that happened there were some protests beforehand but the crowds did respond afterwards whether that will happen here we simply don't
7:07 am
know and of course we don't know if those are those who dede will be charged that's a great point you make john bad there were a lot of protests about that as the investigation progress as people are trying to get information out there there was a lot of resistance on the part of the mayor and the police unions but you have to wonder perhaps there was a guilty verdict because they people and chicago protesters and sisted audit that that sort of seems what the role of protests about the protests are and and to be honest this video that we saw a george floyd is what led to the protests that you can also almost be certain that's probably will lead to the charges john is that there were these protests this people saw it for themselves. that's true 1st of all you had the officer charged and indeed imprisoned in 4 days that's almost unheard of the prosecutor said it was the 1st time he'd ever prosecuted a police officer that quickly and i have no doubt in my mind the fact that the
7:08 am
governor and the mayor of the town had both called for action was what resulted in that quick action there was a press conference the day before in which a lot of us thought that criminal charges were going to be announced but they weren't one suspects because they simply couldn't finish the investigation in time but they held a news conference anyway and when people heard that there were no criminal charges because streets went wild people were upset and angry about that and then on friday when he when the 1st officer was charged. there was a sense of relief it was a bit of a festive atmosphere but it simply wasn't enough and then later on in the night things turned more violent and you had buildings burned in confrontations with police and then that's again what you had tonight ok john hendren with the latest there and chicago john thank you very much ok let's go a little further west to los angeles where our problem is why there are so rob
7:09 am
a curfew in los angeles as well. yes that's right richelle a curfew has been in effect for a little over an hour now across the city but that this does not seem to have abated the protests or the violence associated with them in fact the protests seem to be spreading they were earlier concentrated in an area of west los angeles now there are protests going off in downtown l.a. . we recently saw a line of maybe 100 police vehicles racing to downtown los angeles to respond to that the mayor of the city eric garcetti has asked the governor of california to send in the national guard and there are reports that the guard will be deployed by midnight that's about 3 hours from now
7:10 am
local time arrests are being made we've seen video of the long lines of people with those plastic zip tie handcuffs being herded on to buses in in west l.a. and there's a huge fire burning at the quarter of melrose and fairfax going up through the roof of a building that we haven't actually been able to identify yet. the mayor says anyone caught out on the streets breaking curfew is subject to arrest. and the. the authorities say this is no longer a matter of protest it's simply destruction the city of los angeles has been through this before. obviously not to the scale of the 92 l.a. riots but they have been here before with with protesters saying enough what there
7:11 am
being no consequences for for black men being abused by police talk about how even all these 20 something years later the wounds are probably still fresh for people and an l.a. well the city has changed the methods of policing have have changed and various police commissioners and chiefs have tried very hard to. deescalate the confrontational. tone between the citizens of the city particularly lock and brown citizens and the police department but yes there are still scars from the 1992 riots after the rodney king beating there are still people who remember that very well and it is for them evidence that crimes by the police.
7:12 am
or at least alleged crimes can be can go on punish there's another example from 2009 in the city of oakland oscar grant a young man was in a. in a mass transit facility he was approached by police handcuffed put on the ground and then shot in the back the officer was actually tried in that case he got 2 years for manslaughter but oscar grant was dead. yeah and that was also that confrontation was caught on video as well. yeah it's good to remind people of that rob reynolds rob thank you very much live for us in los angeles and they are city's mayor bill de blasio who has issued a warning to the small number of rioters among the peaceful protesters. if you went out peacefully to make a point about the need for change you have been heard and change is coming in the city i have no doubt about that it's time to go home so we can all move forward but
7:13 am
those who are out there simply to create violence those who are out there to express hatred towards our police officers we won't tolerate that if you're out there to commit an act of violence you're going to get arrested tonight carol is on there is in new york he sent us this update. i slated groups of. protesters are still kind of going around the streets a little bit but for the most part what are we're seeing now is the after effects of some of the ugly side of the protests that we saw the vast majority were peaceful but here in union square area of new york city in the last hour to 2 hours it got quite chaotic actually there's still. some groups of protesters up the street there police have the street blocked off. i guess you can describe it as somewhat of a tense calm at this hour. then over there that was set on fire there's about 3
7:14 am
police vehicles that were set up blaze this evening and then if you follow me over here i can just give you an idea of the anger that so many people have. this is 2 of the police vans they were vandalized here. again and what you're looking at is a manifestation of anger and frustration by some of the protesters who say they've just simply had enough and that what you're seeing here is they're saying that this is gone beyond minneapolis minnesota and george floyd that this is now gone national but in new york city this evening definitely we saw intense protests throughout the afternoon in brooklyn new york city and elsewhere but ultimately ended with some ugly scenes here in union square we all saw any gallagher and miami with the latest situation there. we saw what 'd started as peaceful demonstrations
7:15 am
become something else entirely in downtown miami protesters surrounded the main police station there was a car was set on fire the i 95 the main highway that runs up the east coast of florida and was partially closed for some time because the protesters moved up onto the highway walking in between the cars there is a very real history here in the state of florida particularly with the case of trayvon martin who was gunned down by george zimmerman a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain that happened 8 years ago it was a case i covered from the very start and it was a case in which george zimmerman was found not guilty by a jury that still resonates with the african-american community here the pain is still very real or remember the trayvon martin case is what started what kicked off the black lives matter movement but what we've seen here in florida all across the state small groups of protesters just a few 100 here and they're not the numbers we're seeing in new york and certainly not like it is in minneapolis but nevertheless that fear that anger that sense of
7:16 am
injustice is really boiling over here as it is in the rest of the country the protests now in downtown miami seem to have dispersed i'm hearing reports that protesters turned up at the house of the police officer who had knee on the neck of the man in minneapolis for 9 minutes he apparently had a 2nd home here so the police are also there as well still no word from rhonda santas this state's governor a close ally of president trump he hasn't made any public comments at all of the moment but this state in this county now under curfew will have to see what the next few days and hours bring. as president i'll chime pass of course tweeted to get his reaction to the protests have bent out with in minneapolis he tweeted the national guard has been released in minneapolis to do the job that they need to macwrite mayor couldn't do shit about news 2 days ago and there would not have been damage and police headquarters to not have been taken over and ruined a great job by the nash. ard no games exclamation point he also threatened on
7:17 am
twitter to unleash the u.s. military on the protesters that is a power he does not have even as president and the mayor of chicago had earlier criticized trump's handling of the protest accusing him of using the unrest for his own political ends. his goal is to polarize to destabilize local government and inflames racist urges and we can absolutely not let him prevail. and i will code what i really want to say to donald trump it's 2 words it begins with f. it ends with you. i will not remain silent while this man cynically tries to turn this incredibly painful moment into one for his own political be. democratic presidential hopeful joe biden has also weighed in on the protest tweeting if we are complacent if we are silent we are complicit in
7:18 am
perpetuating the cycles of violence not of us can turn away we all have an obligation to speak outs as a clemente is a community organizer and representing black lives matter of that's a group formed after the death of unarmed black teenager trayvon martin and for that she says people are at a breaking point. every 28 hours in the united states of america an african american native person south asian person or brown person let the you know are killed by the police every 28 hours george floyd unfortunately was something we have to watch for 9 minutes but we could talk about briana taylor and teen who was working during the global pandemic where police entered her house while her and her boyfriend were sleep they thought they were being rot and her body was so riddled with bullets and this is last month in louisville kentucky that they had a hard time even putting her back together i can name you. tony make day
7:19 am
a black trans man that was just killed 2 days ago by the police in men says and i could spend 5 hours with you all and i could not even answer or we wouldn't even vote to the lists of multiple police killings this is a not only a tipping point it's an explosion and within against this global pandemic until all those cops are respite until they go to trial until they get jail time and then serve that jail time i think we're going to be seeing this a lot more for many many weeks here in the united states and let's go now to chicago illinois where arnold tossing a name as as far. for the 2nd time in less than 24 hours the protests here in chicago have been quite rowdy overnight more than 100 people were arrested a dozen police officers were injured and then mid afternoon today protesters
7:20 am
gathered again near the federal building they began marching the group splintered off at one point the group was as large as 3000 people by some estimates another group ended up in front of the trump tower but the scenes were not great there were scenes of police cars spray painted with profanity protesters rocking a police vehicle back and forth reports of protesters hurling water bottles and firecrackers at police protesters attempting to broach a line of police officers in riot gear so that they could continue marching ultimately the illinois state police did have to shut down several ramps highway ramps to try to contain the protesters. how the world is still dealing with a crime a virus pandemic in the midst of everything else that is happening several senior
7:21 am
scientific advisers in the u.k. government have spoken publicly to say it is too soon to let the country's law down the next stage to ease restrictions starts on monday they said the decision to push forward is political again bob reports from london. a socially distance demonstration organized by the activist group extinction rebellion calling on the british government to get to grips with the crisis not cope with climate change paul stevens a former detective sergeant of london's police force was among those calling for a citizens' assembly on how to rebuild the economy before covered 19 we were investing billions in fossil fuels we were subsidizing ideation all of that was killing the planet is going in the opposite direction now. that stuff that falls right now is the time to change direction it's much easier without that momentum going in the opposite way the weekends brought new warnings of another kind on monday some primary schools in england are reopening and people can visit outdoor markets and car show rooms but several scientists on the government's advisory
7:22 am
group known as sage say things are changing too soon they pointed out the government's test trace and isolate program so crucial if another peak in infections is to be avoided it won't be fully functional until the end of june you are level you know between point $7.00 so it's only a bit below one so we've got radial and dream actually and it's really important. we use to address very wisely and we don't lose control again you know i can understand the desires for the relaxation of this social measures but we really can't go back to a situation where we've got the numbers of cases and just returned in the past some scientists have also said the number of you covered 19 cases still it around 8000 per day is too high to move to a new phase of relaxing restrictions for a monday people in england can meet in parks or gardens in groups of 6 not the
7:23 am
current limit of 2 but the sunny weather has raised the prospect of people preempting that of course what's important with these changes is that the guidelines still say keep 2 metres away from people you don't live with by a large that is being observed but it's far from universal and if people start to lose the distancing habit that could be a real problem as more of society opens up the government's trying to balance restoring personal freedoms against preventing the virus from getting out of control but critics say look down measures are being lifted too quickly the al-jazeera london. but american countries are struggling to get the outbreak under control brazil has now surpassed france to record the 4th highest death toll in the world al center up any reports. continues to ravage brazil with a number of new infections spiraling out of control it is becoming increasingly difficult for doctors in the amazon to continue to venture into the jungle to test for the
7:24 am
virus and provide much needed care as seen as a chance. we had the boat coming once a month due to the pandemic a man now says they stopped coming and we've been left unprotected thank god they came back now and the people and testing which for us here in the interior is impossible. but close to half a 1000000 confirmed cases the minister of health says the real number could be 15 times higher due to lack of testing. president jackie both sonata remains and faced as he took selfies and embrace supporters at a roadside restaurant outside the capital. and brazil is not alone cases of spike to the country has now surpassed china with more than $94000.00 confirmed cases. hospitals are running out of beds in the capital santiago and are concerned that young people flaunting social distancing guidelines might be contributing to the
7:25 am
spread of the virus in movie though. seen a particular situation that worries us we've seen that more than 50 percent of people who are infected are young people under 40 and we've seen that about 12 percent of people who are hospital laws are also young people under 40. deaths and infections are also on the rise in colombia which has so far managed to slow the spread of the virus with one of the earliest in strictness lockdowns. but the government worried by the high level of unemployment reached 20 percent to me pool have announced the reopening of stores in malls on monday yet some mayors like in the capital decided to extend the lockdown measures until june 15th mexico 2 is bracing for a planned easing of restrictions next week while deaths in infections keep rising doctors and nurses took to the streets of the capital mexico city to protest the
7:26 am
bits of their colleagues and a lack of supplies you know a country they fear might be reopening too fast. mere opinion is calling on president on trying to reconsider his decision to cut ties with the world health organization a leader said the global threat is an opportunity for enhanced cooperation and common solutions announced the move on friday saying it was over the health bodies handling of the crime and the u.s. has consistently been the largest contributor donating 40900000000 dollars last year that's about 22 percent of the u.n. organizations total budget. and he reported another record daily job of almost 8000 new infections a crown of virus on saturday but it's slowly easing its restrictions some of them one rachel particularly affected as minister of kashmir were business leaders are predicting a disaster correspond it does appear on a massive story. the lake and with its borders reflecting the surroundings kept
7:27 am
himalaya is would usually be filled with tourists at this time of year but the houseboat sit empty and the men roll. their paddles the only sounds to be heard apart from the birds. would usually make around $7.00 a day rolling tourists around the lake but he's only work for one month so far this year you get a wind up but i can look for rio completely dependent on tourism relieve our homes in the early morning for work and during the day and feed our families in the evening we are really suffering. so too is the entire local tourism industry by this time last year nearly 200000 tourists have visited indian administered kashmir the when the indian government revoked the region's autonomous status last august it also told all tourists to be imposed restrictions on movement
7:28 am
and cut off telecommunications. the government said that was needed to maintain law and order in the area which often sees protests and attacks against indian rule tourist numbers dropped by 85 percent in the 2nd half of last year compared to the year before we had just started. to see some. for the month of june july and. that it has been a very very bad situation for all the tourism clears and. video caught on the way to scumming in. as they said the industry is bleeding. and tourism isn't the only sector affected chamber of commerce and industry estimates the region's economy has lost around $20000000.00 a day to get knocked down that's on top of the $2000000000.00 economic hit to the 2nd half of 29. on the factory which makes wood and vinay as
7:29 am
he doesn't have many baez and stalks of piling up i have to be in installments i have loans from banks so i can't pay them i don't know what how what will happen and the question really is very unpredictable and we don't know which year we can work and be sure we can not so it's very challenging. india's government said it will spend $250000000000.00 to help prop up the economy nationwide but business leaders say they're being forgotten i would help financial help is in i.c.u. if there is no financial injection and dimed injection it really dicey this is going to be a normally disaster for that there should be a dial borning unless emergency government help specific to the region isn't sent. elizabeth al-jazeera new delhi government have killed at least 15 people including children during an attack on a convoy transporting traders and. several others were wounded or disappeared and
7:30 am
the province in the north west african country has been fighting armed groups with links to al qaeda and i saw since 2017 close to 2000 people were killed last year. sudan has some of the ethiopian envoy to the country over a cross border attack incident near the eastern city of god direct pardon me killed an officer and a child leaving several other people dead the sudanese military has blamey offensive on armed groups supported by ethiopia the government was preparing for a meeting on border issues when the attack happened the at the ethiopian government and shut your respond a new era of human space travel has begun after the 1st privately owned rocket sent to nasa astronauts into orbit it should look. to thank god the. bank and curlier are headed to the
7:31 am
international space station aboard the dragon craft which launched atop a rocket owned by space x. spectators including the u.s. president watch the historic launch in florida. the 2 are due to arrive at the space station on sunday for 4 months day. charles holden cheney as a former nasa astronaut he says the launch as a game changer for the entire space industry. it's awesome if i can put it that way it's it's the culmination of you know it's the culmination of here in the united states at that it's the culmination of the dreams and plans of a number of administrations president obama picked it up you know after the bush administration had talked about doing it and actually put money against it and we were able to entice several american companies to put in bids or proposals in the 2 companies that ended up with human spaceflight were boeing in space x. we have another american company sierra nevada that has now been accepted in has
7:32 am
a contract with nasa to fly cargo but space x. has another human variant that has wings it looks like a miniature shuttle so my guess my hope is that. you know if they keep progressing the way they are now we'll have a 3rd american spacecraft to carry humans to orbit within the next 5 years or so in the next 1000 hours the crew will be going through a number of orbits and evolutions in catching up with the international space station and during that period of time after they get a good night's rest doug hurley the commander and i think bob being can also will have an opportunity to do some manual maneuvers with the vehicle using the touch screen there's a lot different from spacecraft that we've flown in the past and then on the final approach they'll do a few manual maneuvers before they stable as the vehicle and then the vehicle will fly itself to an autonomous lead for the final docking and that's all for now the
7:33 am
keep an eye out is there resting at all as that next. the un published the most comprehensive study of life on. they found 1000000 species face extinction has more than 12 percent of known life on. one truck to destroy the much oil infrastructure of which all well and the report identifies the 5 main drivers of this big logical crisis the way we use and abuse all politics was always says 75 percent of the land and. the marine environment have been severely able to by human activity exploitation of species through overfishing a hunting climate change caused by a greenhouse gas emissions. pollution and finally creaked on local ecosystems by invasive species. the reports of old beside the decline and be slow to even start in some cases but to do that we must transform our relationship with.
7:34 am

57 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on