the place to build the home for these children and they see them become somebody used to fall into society fending for themselves. would give me satisfaction. another night of protests in the u.s. over the killing of a black man sometimes peaceful sometimes violent with hundreds arrested. solidarity across the atlantic hundreds rally in central london demanding justice for george freud. hello again i'm peter w. watching al jazeera live from doha also coming up 2 and a half months after the coronavirus closed the al aqsa mosque in occupied east

jerusalem has reopened to worshippers. also ahead a privately built space capsule is due to dock at the international space station in the next 30 minutes we'll bring you live coverage. also this hour just a phone call away the zimbabwean grandmothers helping people with lockdown anxiety and depression. curfews have been imposed in more than 2 dozen u.s. states after a 4th nights of sometimes violent protests against police brutality more than 1400 arrests have been made in 17 cities the unrest was sparked in minneapolis by the death of a black man george floyd whilst in police custody it has since grown into a national outrage against racism sometimes by the poor. lease mike hanna reports

on what's been a long night for many across the u.s. . what started out as peaceful protests in dozens of cities are ruptured in violence in los angeles police vehicles were set on fire sending plumes of black smoke over the area similar scenes in cities ranging from seattle where a 5 pm curfew has been set to miami where thousands gathered through the day and where like in so many other areas a standoff with police ended in clouds of tear gas in chicago where demonstrators held signs carrying messages of protest that were repeated throughout the nation. in new york a city that is still to emerge from the ravages of the pandemic a series of protests took place throughout the 5 boroughs and in minneapolis the city where george floyd was killed and where the national wave of protests began.

the president left the white house in the morning to attend the basics launch and afterwards expressed his sympathy for george floyd and his family but also had this to say about the protesters the memory of george floyd is being dishonored by riders looters and anarchists the violence and vandalism is being led by n.t. for and other radical left wing groups who were terrorizing the innocent destroying jobs. hurting businesses and burning down buildings this in the wake of a tweet saying if protesters had broken the secret service ring outside the white house they would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs and most are ministers weapons i have seen the reference to vicious dogs seen by washington's mayor muriel bowser as a throwback to the police use of dogs on african american civil rights activists

decades ago and in an extraordinary tweet often the mayor lashed out at the president in the white house saying and i quote while he hides behind his fence afraid alone i stand with people peacefully exercising their 1st amendment right after the murder of george floyd and hundreds of years of institutional racism there are no vicious dogs and ominous weapons there is just a scared man afraid alone into the night crowds continue to gather within sight and sound of the president's residence clashing with police and secret service agents on several occasions washington d.c. became one of more than 11 cities where the national guard has been mobilized and amidst a flickering of flames and swirling smoke curfews were declared in a number of areas the same a nation just emerging from

a months long lockdown in the thesis of a pandemic mike hanna al-jazeera washington. people elizondo is in new york he says events that were calm all day until small groups started causing trouble when night fell. chaotic scenes here in new york city late in the evening i'm in union square area of the city you can see that some of the protests turned out to be violent in a way this is where the real heart of the major conflict between police and protesters were was held after nightfall at one point more than 2 police vehicles were set ablaze we saw helicopters are still at this hour buzzing over the air and there are groups of protesters still roaming in certain areas but earlier in the day we saw tens of thousands of peaceful protesters take to the streets in new york

to have their voices heard at one point they peacefully protested right in front of trump tower in front of a heavy police presence and then moved down the streets of broadway down to downtown new york city where one point they were greeted by applause by onlookers these were mostly young people all of whom said that they were out here for a reason i'm here for george floyd i'm here for all of those have lost their lives he's telling i'm here for black america i'm here for me i'm here for my family i'm here for all the america and i'm here for those who can't be here today well i think that america is sick and we have to root out racism and i think that white people need to stand up and do something instead of sitting on their couch and posting on their instagram stories this is a manifestation of anger as one man just told me says this is what happens when people get fed up many are exactly that here in new york they say something like

this is just property that can be replaced but the life of george floyd can't be. live to chicago correspondent. going to him who's there chicago was one of the cities put under curfew natasha is the curfew actually working. well i can tell you for about an hour after this curfew was implemented on saturday evening people remained on the street in a section of downtown chicago and continued to clash with police people were throwing firecrackers and other objects at police officers we saw a police officer cornered by a crowd rushing to get away inside an s.u.v. after the 3rd time of protesters and people i would call agitators wanting to wreak havoc clashed with police in a 24 hour period in chicago the city took the step of imposing

a curfew until further notice people will be asked to remain in their homes from 9 pm until 6 am and the city is vowing if you violate the curfew you will be arrested thou the city had had as many as 3000 people it's estimated on the streets at one point in chicago on saturday afternoon they gathered at the federal plaza and began marching north along a major commercial corridor or some as i said ended up in different parts of the city and they remain peaceful there were scenes of people kneeling on mass in front of trump tower a reference to george floyd in the way he died at the hands of the minneapolis police department but things quickly deteriorated people were throwing water bottles bottles filled with urine firecrackers at police people brought pipes shovels and bats to the protests people were seen spraying profanities.

spray painting profanities on squad cars lighting cars on fire and they. there was major destruction and looting restaurant windows a major department store a national one called macy's the front door smashed in and people had did now what had happened is people had been protesting in multiple parts of the city so the police attempted to restrain and contain the crowd so they attempted to do that by closing off several ramps of the highway closing off a portion of a main north south road called lake shore drive and it's something that we don't see quite often all the bridges over the chicago river were raised again in an attempt to contain the crowd on saturday evening a visibly angry mayor lori lightfoot appeared on television it's worth noting she

is the city's 1st female african-american mayor and she had said all along that she shared the anger and frustration that many people were feeling over the death of george floyd she said that she understood that it quote on earth generations of pain and anger emote among black folks and communities of color and their experience of policing in america she said she understood people needed to express that rage peacefully and because we were in a pandemic simply asked that they social distance and wear masks but it was clear that was not heeded she said in the evening after this curfew was imposed i'm watching a tragedy unfold in our city a peaceful protest devolved into criminal conduct and i think that it's worth noting that there is a distinction being made between the protesters who have remained peaceful and again people i would describe as agitators intent on committing crimes and wreaking

havoc at this point the illinois national guard has not been activated but chicago does join more than 2 dozen cities in the united states who have been for. forced to implement curfews this is the 1st time this is happened on this scale since 1968 that is when the civil rights icon reverend dr martin luther king was assassinated and it sparked massive protests and civil unrest throughout the country natasha thank you. well for decades incidents of excessive force being used on black people have led to talk of reform but little action in march of 1901 video of rodney king being beaten in los angeles were broadcast around the world the acquittal of officers involved spawn days of riots in february of 2012 trayvon martin was shot by a member of a neighborhood watch group that led to the launch of the black plumes matter movement there were several high profile deaths involving police officers in 2014 including eric garner michael brown and 12 year old to me

a rise in 2015 for the gray died in a police van in baltimore while in the custody of 6 officers just over a year later fernando castillo was shot and killed during a traffic stop tricia rose is director of the center for the study of race and ethnicity in america brown university she explains the groundswell of anger unleashed by the death of george floyd. i think you know it's very important when we're thinking about the response to this incident where mr floyd was killed that we really understand how systematic and pervasive the deep violence that black people face at the hands of police have been all around the country and it's impossible to speak to what the community feels in minneapolis if we only think about what's happened there in isolation it's extremely important that we understand that this is a historical and ongoing factor and a nationwide fact and this is not want to rogue cop is not want to 2 or 3 rogue

cops across new york but in fact assisted a systematic relationship where black people are considered threatening and worthy of extreme violence and this is a common practice so to to begin to understand this we have to put it both in historical context and in terms of a collective black trauma around state sponsored violence that usually goes completely on punished this is what happened in ferguson right it was a full nearly a military response you know local police forces around the country have been rewarded with military grade equipment the kinds of equipment you would normally see only in an international war context and there was extreme levels of containment and violence as if people exercising their civil rights to freedom of expression and to gather in public to protest were a threat to the nation rather than the very rights that the nation is designed to

protect but that's the logic of what it means to face a state violence when you're a black community even if whites and others are participating it's when it's understood as a racial crime that you begin to see this kind of extreme violent response that said i did my understanding that there were also many instigators involved in minneapolis and perhaps. in other cities around the country as well and more data on that may come up as the weeks bear out but what that means is that you could have you know right extreme right wing violent groups who are infiltrating the protest community in the cities that are protesting and those infiltrators are stoking violence and encouraging a violent response for which black people will pay the highest price later here on al-jazeera we'll have news on the coronavirus pandemic mexico's preparing to ease its virus locked even though it's not past the peak to meet the medics on the front

lines. and to cope with 19 challenges in the sea beating myths and the virus itself. we've got wet weather pulling away from japan now this area cloudy easing out of the wife of that line of cloud down across southern parts of china still seeing some very heavy showers more intense downpours this is you know province where we see day after day of to wrenshaw rainfall and that has led to widespread flooding across a good part of that southwestern corner of china more shows in the forecast as we go on through the next couple of days there slight a little further north was just pushing up towards shanghai quite reaching 30

celsius in shanghai 31 there on choose day that watch the weather as you can see just easing a little further north which as we go on through choose day by choose day japan is fine try to walk and sunny will see temperatures in tokyo getting up to around 28 celsius few showers there just creeping into the korean peninsula so some ladish i was a possibility here usual russia showers across much of southeast asia we got some heavy showers that just around borneo for it side the west the weather spilling up across india china and thailand still seeing the heat of the day showers ramping up now shall is ramping up to across the northeast of india circulation out into the arabian sea could bring some rather wet and windy weather up the west and gets to the north this dry. isolating times the listening post cuts through the noise lead been looking at another side of this story not from the information around the outbreak but the

misinformation separating propaganda from fact it's reality. and we're taking you live to space x. which is in the process of having just docked with the international space station space x. nasa making history of course sending astronauts from u.s. soil up to the international space station what you're looking at right now a piece of. i guess galactic history as the 1st crude mission launched from the united states since the space shuttle program came to an end in 202011 it was bad weather had caused a launch delay on may the 27th the astronauts launched at 322 on saturday from the kennedy space center was there this test flight that's in effect what it is is delivering 2 astronauts robert behnken and douglas hurley to the international

space station a moment of space history there they are doing it slightly ahead of schedule this wasn't supposed to happen until precisely 1429 g. but things have gone so well so efficiently they're slightly ahead of the timetable that they had penciled in for that process the hatch was jus to be opened but an international space station and space x. at 12 45 pm. assume local time local to nasa not local to g.m.t. and not local to where they are right now and then there's going to be a welcome ceremony as well we'll stick with these pictures and we'll talk to our correspondent who's been following the story for us. so andy must have been doing more than well if they've just decided what the heck we'll just do it showing up. i mean it is an incredible feat of engineering of course that capsule launched

yesterday from here in florida from cape canaveral pretty much perfect launch the astronauts and spent the last 19 hours making their way towards the international space station and it's important to bear in mind that as the crew dragon capsule approaches the international space station these astronauts on board won't be piloting it is automated as it docks with the international space station they will then stay inside for about 2 hours before they join the rest of the crew on board that orbiting laboratory and then there will be that ceremony but this is a crucial test for space x. and the crew dragon capsule if all goes well here you know you've got people like the long musk talking about getting boots on the moon in 2024 or even going out to mars perhaps in the future so this is a vital test beginning of a new era in space exploration for the united states because this is the 1st commercial spacecraft to take nasa astronauts into orbit so it's the beginning of

a new private public partnership between nasa the u.s. government and boeing and space x. and all these are the companies that are being awarded contracts going forward but these next few minutes will be vital inside that capsule it's all touchscreen this is like nothing we've ever seen before there are no switches in here it's all automated although the 2 astronauts can fly this capsule money only if they choose to do so but they will then spend between wants and 3 months at the international spy. sation it all depends on the preparations for the next capsule and that falcon 9 rocket in cape canaveral there is of course another mission planned for organized but it's incredible to watch this stuff i was there when the final shuttle landed back in 2011 ending a massive air an iconic spacecraft in an op itself but here we have a capsule launching and if you watched yesterday that falcon 9 rocket breaks off from the capsule and then comes back down and lions on

a drone ship out in the atlantico ocean so these fates of engineering is simply incredible but once again a very vital time for the crew dragon capsule those 2 veteran astronauts on board and of course for the future of space exploration and back in 20102011 the when the pulled the plug on the space shuttle program one did get the feeling that the powers that be at nasa have got something of a bloody nose if you will because they clearly want to carry on doing what they were doing but the decision was taken no safety 1st will pause the big red button on launching more or similar spacecraft in the future so is there a sense there for you in the states that this is about nasa kind of reinventing itself again going from the last century to this century and they've had to do it with a long musk with his resources with his technical accu men and with his ability to design things and build things that look different almost to the point of the

aesthetic looks and feels different as well. yeah i mean if you look today even the space suits the astronauts are wearing it looks like something out of a science fiction movie that they're very spoilt they're very nicely designed they run up there in a tesla car of course a lot must go as a company too but i can tell you when the space shuttle program did end in 2011 it was you know is a moment of real sadness for the people along the space coast thousands of engineers lost their jobs the economy suffered a bit more than anything else i think it was really a blow to the country because the space shuttle was such an iconic craft it did achieve such great things in its time in service and when that final shuttle did lie and you know i was allowed to walk right up to it and look at this iconic spacecraft knowing that it will never go into orbit again so you know i was also there when president obama came and told nasa basically that he would be reducing

funding so that was the end of an era this is the beginning i think of another era where nasa or in the u.s. government depend on people like a lot musk and boeing of also got contracts as well but it's clearly so far working i mean the liftoff yesterday was just about perfect as you said that docking early here in a craft that we haven't seen the likes of in orbit before this is an extremely advanced module flying itself docking itself these astronauts shouldn't really have to do much as this procedure takes place and a lot musk is already talking about you know venturing out to mars something that was basically unthinkable places like nasa a few years ago they never really talked about this before but i think this is a new era a new dominance perhaps for the united states getting back into orbit this way and hopefully if things go well there is another mission planned in august the capsule can take 4 or 5 passengers there are only 2 astronauts on board at the moment but

this is a vital crucial mission for not just space x. but for nasa for the united states future in space explorer. and here's your talking to as we're watching those launch pictures from yesterday i'm just wondering if we can rerack the actual docking pictures because that took place what 8 and a half 9 minutes ago now and it's maybe worth restating as well and do that within all this glossy i pad tesla car type technology yes they can fly it manually if needs be which is wonderful of course unless safety 1st were actually watching pictures and you know all of the seconds before the docking for 9 or 10 minutes ago but it is maybe worth stating and if for the sake of anyone who hasn't watched this kind of thing before it looks static it looks almost like an anticlimax but however it is delicate it is a dangerous moment it is possibly the most dangerous moment apart from the initial launch yesterday when they bring these 2 spacecraft together not least because

ok it looks like it's happening in a stationary situation up in space but they're actually moving at some at 17000 miles an hour. yeah i mean the international space station orbits the earth 4 or 5 times a day it's an incredibly fast moving piece of equipment if you've ever looked at the other night sky you can actually track it and watch it going across the skyline so just take that into account they are docking with an international space station it is very old at this point and that is moving at speeds that are hard to comprehend so the calculations here are all minute exact the room for error just isn't there if anything goes wrong everything goes wrong as they get closer towards the international space station they enter what they call a kind of critical bubble within a few 100 meters of the international space station those are the vital moments i think for the crew dragon capsule as these calculations are made so you can only

imagine the engineering behind this of course space x. have been working on this for years they have. it's a very public failure as when rockets exploded on the landing pad but they have overcome all that so far so this is a vital test i think for for space sakes and i think the entire world is watching it's also 'd worth noting that this is a distraction i think for many people in the world with everything that's going on here on planet earth to look upwards and see what the potential future is like sex ration could be only for the moment many things if you just joining us here on al-jazeera let's just recap what's happened in the past what 1212 and a half minutes or so space x. has docked with the international space station we have 2 nasa astronauts on board that aircraft is the 1st time that the united states has done this since the space shuttle program was brought to an end in 2011 will stay with the latest live or prerecorded pictures for you will bring in derrick pitts he is with the planetarium

program he is the planetarium programs director indeed and chief astronomer for the franklin institute science museum he joins us from philadelphia derrick just share your thoughts with us at this historic time this truly is a historic a moment because this is another step toward opening access to low earth orbit face a much lower cost and this also will be the 1st steps towards the next big adventure in space exploration astronauts returning to the moon in just a couple years and then building up this hill and the infrastructure for a potential human visit to mars a lower cost compared to what the derrick white couldn't have done this and brought it in on budget as space x. as

a long musk has done. well there's so many reasons why that couldn't happen you know the difference one of the differences between the between nasa as a national space agency and space x. as an independent company is that space x. doesn't have the same kind of red tape your credit red tape. nasa has to your worth then it also has the freedom to take on new and innovative approaches to accessing space you know nasa has an entire infrastructure built up based on the space agency ideas of the 20th century where space x. is built up almost entirely in the 21st century and so with those new innovations and those new fresh ideas space x. can do it better cheaper and faster while maintaining the safety as well ok let's talk about practicalities they will we think be opening the hatch between the capsule and the space station in probably the next what 5 to 10 minutes

maybe 15 minutes max because they're now checking to make sure that everything is sealed everything is safe everything is secure we understand that the astronauts have done nothing they literally just sat there they could have taken over if needs be but they just sat there and they let the technology do its thing isn't that kind of a tough task if you've got to fantastically well trained astronauts getting them to sit there and do nothing because you know at the end of the day astronauts like to astronauts it's what they're paid to do it's what they've been trained to do. yes yes that's true son in a sense it's like saying that we have these tremendously well trained test pilots in an aircraft in which they don't have to do any pilot well if you look at it the other way around what this is doing is proving that the automated systems can do this operation and we have yes you know it's there as backups

a lot of training to be able to do it manually so think of it in the sense that this then allows the astronauts the pilots to be doing other things while these highly reliable automated system can take care of such mundane issues as ducie your spacecraft now when i say monday i don't mean it it's any less dangerous i just mean that this is something that's going to be going on all over and over and over and over again as the programs expand with this new new technology so why not let that be done automatically if this is dims can't do it because again the computer systems can monitor and control so many more things so much faster more efficient but the astronauts with the training are a wonderful addition to that automated system ok everyone around the world of course knows to put 3 words in the same sentence ilan musk and tesla so for the astronauts is this a little bit like test driving his latest friend b.

do is he fantastic super expensive car in as much as they will report back to him and space x. and nasa what this capsule is like to fly to be in actually derek i'm going to stop you there because we're now going to go to the governor of minnesota forgive me for that derrick because of other events taking place that i'm sure aware of on the ground in the straits in this in the united states said to me all right let's just cross over there and see what he says history of our state. it started with. that tragic and senseless murder. of george floyd and it extended through the week of. righteous anger being expressed by community leaders and all people of conscience. and continued to deteriorate into to civil unrest and eventually violence and rioting

this morning in minnesota the sun came up as it does this time of year bright trees are but it out flowers are up promise of of summer after a long winter i want to say thank you to all of the people of minnesota who protected their neighbors who took an unprecedented step last night of making sure created the space that an unprecedented. force of our neighbors and our public servants were able to come together. execute execute the most complex. public safety operation in in state's history they did so in a professional manner they did so without a single loss of life and minimal property damage i am grateful to those folks out there and i'm grateful for. their protection of minnesota i want to.

to make note once again that the operational plan and the decision to operate falls squarely with me and when the order to do so the actions that happened after that are my responsibility i want to once again extend my deepest apologies for to the journalists who were once again in the middle of this situation we're in it virtually but nevertheless detained to them personally and to the news organizations and to journalists everywhere it is unacceptable i said when it happened the other day when i failed you i have to do better i continue to need to do and send that message i take full responsibility for that. and won't equivocate no matter how difficult the environment as i would just ask folks to know that in restoring public order and hearing to democratic principles and having a history of governor of welcoming that openness it is sir.